Word: dutronc
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have time for melodramatic effects like lopping off his ear. In such films as Loulou and A Nos Amours, Pialat has sullenly railed against the strictures of French bourgeois life. In Van Gogh, he has found a kindred spirit; for both, artistic compromise is a crime against humanity. Jacques Dutronc plays the painter as a | troubled man (but not a madman) with a mission, a sort of nerd for art. Full of graceful compositions and expansive conversation, Van Gogh is an eyeful. And an earful...
Until 1960, film was primarily a representational art. Then Godard and his fellow iconoclasts suspended disbelief like a taut high wire across which his characters danced and ambled, and sometimes fell off. There are "people" in Every Man, including a TV producer named Paul Godard (Jacques Dutronc), his co-worker and ex-mistress Denise (Nathalie Baye), and her friend Isabelle (Isabelle Huppert), who works as a prostitute and has a short session with Paul. But they are not "real people." They are figures in the desolate landscape of Godard's mind. They have materialized to illustrate his deepest, bleakest...
Here the distant antagonists are a crook (Jacques Dutronc), working his way up from the small time in pre-World War II France, and a cop (Bruno Cremer), who is working his way up in the police bureaucracy. The film dawdles perhaps too long over their early struggles for advancement. On the other hand, both are established as men of some decency in their private lives-a point to be borne in mind once Lelouch finally arrives at the heart of his film, namely the war years...
...order is in power, the old criminal order will still be up to its traditional tricks-and in need of pursuit. He does not seem to notice that his new masters have unconscionably broadened the definition of criminal. Meanwhile, back in the underworld, Occupation spells opportunity for Dutronc and his pals-until his common-law wife (Marlene Robert) is captured and tortured by Cremer. The detective's wife (Brigitte Fossey) is, in turn, taken hostage by the criminals and threatened with whatever fate is visited on the cop's captive...
| 1 |