France,
1944, 90 min
Shown in 1988
CREDITS
- dir
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Robert Bresson
- scr
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Robert Bresson, Jean Cocteau
- cam
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Philippe Agostini
- editor
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Jean Feyte
- mus
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Jean-Jacques Grünenwald
- cast
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Maria Casarès, Elina Labourdette, Lucienne Bogaert, Paul Bernard, Jean Marchat, Bernard Lajarrige, Marcel Rouze, Emma Lyonel
- prod co
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Les Films Raoul Ploquin
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COMMENTS
Robert Bresson received the Akira Kurosawa award in 1988.
OTHER
This masterly film maudit, derived from a section of a Diderot novel, is elegantly mounted and dressed in a timeless present. A wealthy woman revenging herself upon her aristocratic lover arranges his marriage to a hard-up dancer. At their grand reception she whispers, “You have married a slut.” But mortal love affirms life. The texture and stylized dialogue (by Cocteau) propel complex events forward, emotion provoking catastrophe, hate, love.
FACTOID #68
Stanley Mosk, who later became a California state Supreme Court Justice, served as the general chairman at the 1967 Festival.
