L’eau vive
France,
1957, 96 min
Shown in 1958
CREDITS
- dir
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Francois Villiers
- prod
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Claude Clert
- scr
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Jean Giono, Alain Allioux
- cam
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Paul Soulignac
- editor
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Edouard Berne
- mus
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Guy Béart
- cast
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Pascale Audret, Charles Blavette, Andree Debar, Arlette Thomas
- prod co
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Carlton Film; Caravelle
- source
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Continental Distributing, Inc.
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COMMENTS
Director François Villiers in attendance.
OTHER
Along with the construction of a dam in the French Alps, a parallel story of a girl’s growth and defeat of a rapacious family is revealed in this candid drama of provincial life. Hortense, still a minor, disturbs her relatives. They want her dead father’s gold, but she discovers it. Hortense purchases a television set and hides the treasure there. When the dam collapses, Hortense is nearly drowned. However, she survives and confronts her relatives with the hidden money saved from the flood. Now 21, Hortense ironically leaves them to purchase a sheep ranch.
FACTOID #4
2006 New Italian Cinema tributee Marco Belocchio’s debut film Fists in the Pocket screened at the Tenth San Francisco International Film Festival in 1966.
