Jouer sa vie
Canada,
1982, 79 min
Shown in 1983
CREDITS
- dir
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Gilles Carle, Camille Coudari
- prod
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Helene Verrie
- cam
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Pierre Latarte, Thomas Vamos
- editor
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Yves Leduc
- cast
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Anatoly Karpov, Victor Korchnoi, Bobby Fischer, Boris Spassky, Tigran Petrosian, Fernando Arrabal
- gga award
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Honorable Mention
OTHER
A witty, engaging, thoroughly entertaining documentary on the great names in international chess and what makes them run. Playwright Fernando Arrabal provides commentary suggesting political, religious, sexual and psychological interpretations of their personal eccentricities and professional gamesmanship. The film makes lively use of vintage Hollywood clips of, among others, chess games featuring Bette Davis as Queen Elizabeth, and Max von Sydow in The Seventh Seal.
—The Film Forum (New York)
FACTOID #10
In 1960, Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, which has inspired many women to jump into fountains, was pulled from the San Francisco International Film Festival’s program by the distributor and replaced with Roberto Rossellini’s Night over Rome.
