Word: laguen
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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Such a person was Rene LaGuen (Marcel Mouloudji). He is discovered in an act of apparent heroism by a member of the Resistance, Sautier. Later this man betrays the Resistance and LeGuen is ordered to kill him, which he does with pleasure if not comprehension. Long afterwards, as LeGuen awaits execution for the continuence of these indulgences in times of peace, a former member of the Gestapo is accused of Sautier's murder. LeGuen, who had never been caught, is convinced to confess to this murder, too, so that he can get another trial. To preserve her husband's memory...
...questions scatter like clouds into the audience. If it were merely an idea-movie, however, these questions might not seem so important. Perhaps, the most striking thing about the movie is the photography. It contrasts the scarred fields and broken buildings of war-time with the prison that is LaGuen's home afterwards. During the war the fields and buildings lie empty about the people, dwarfing them, but in prison the shots are dramatic individual close...
...acting, however, is superb. As Rene LaGuen, the sick, bewildered half-idiot, Marcel Mouloudji is unforgettable. With his raggedy walk and shapeless body, he looks often like a teddy bear but seems, at times, a man possessed. LeGuen's cellmates, Raymond Pelligrin as Gino and Antoine Balpetre as Dr. Dutoit, the one a young Corsican feudist and the other a resigned old man, make proud and individualistic people for whom legal 'responsibility' can only be irrelevant. It merely intensifies the private obligation to die well. As Rene's kid brother, Georges Pouliouly sometimes seems less bewildered than still...
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