Word: noiret
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Neruda (Philippe Noiret), the communist poet in political exile on an Italian isle, introduces the postman (Troisi) to the verbal rapture of metaphors; aids him in winning over the sultry, feral Beatrice (Maria Grazia Cucinotta); then abandons Mario to return home. But the film's true poetry is in Troisi's face--gaunt and ethereal, like that of a Jesus in a Neapolitan pageant. The audience needs no subtitles to read the feelings in this man's brave, troubled heart...
...early days of France's liberation from German occupation. The place is a small town where a large number of people have been bombed out of their homes. As a result, Archambaud and his family have a communist (Michel Blanc) living in one room and a humanist (Philippe Noiret) living in another. And soon enough they take in a Nazi collaborator (Gerard Desarthe...
...postwar limbo may be worse. Grieving is a job for the strong. So says French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier in his exemplary Life and Nothing But. This epic romantic drama, set in the aftermath of World War I, reins in its anger but not its wistful passion. Gruff Philippe Noiret plays a French officer assigned to choose the corpse that will serve as the nation's Unknown Soldier. As he assists two women -- an attractive aristocrat (Sabine Azema) and a young teacher (Pascale Vignal) -- in locating their men, he realizes that there are many casualties on the scarred battlefields. They ) include...
Alone in the theater, Father Adelfio (Leopoldo Trieste), the little Sicilian town's ex officio movie censor, rings a bell whenever anything on the screen strikes him as salacious. Up in the booth, Alfredo, the projectionist (Philippe Noiret, who is becoming Spencer Tracy to our age), slaps a piece of paper into the reel marking the spot the priest has X-rated. The walls of Alfredo's aerie are festooned with ribbons of film he has cut from movies before showing them to the public, for the good father sees in even the most chaste movie kiss an occasion...