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Panique [Panic] (Julien Duvivier, 1946)

Sep

6

1936

Panique (1946)

A traveller's paperwork. The date of entry is September 6, 1935. DP: Nicolas Hayer.

 

Touchez pas au grisbi (Jacques Becker, 1954)

Sep

5

1953

Touchez pas au grisbi (1954)

A hand holds up a paper announcing a large reward for who knows more about eight stolen gold bars. The crime took place at Orly Airport on September 5, 1953. DP: Pierre Montazel.

“That's the trouble with young people – they're so doggone young!”

– Max

Panique [Panic] (Julien Duvivier, 1946)

Nov

7

Panique (1946)

A child probes her dinner with a fork larger than her head while another one is all neat and proper. In the midst of them, as serious table settings require, a large man. His napkin tucked in at the neck, he leans over the first child with something to say. DP: Nicolas Hayer.

“Dead meat always attracts flies.”

– Monsieur Hire

Une femme douce [A Gentle Woman / A Gentle Creature] (Robert Bresson, 1969)

Mar

14

National Write Your Story Day

Une femme douce (1969)

Dominique Sanda as “elle” – “she” – a nameless woman. She peers out of a window, her face partially obscured by the muntin. DP: Ghislain Cloquet.

A young woman jumps out of a window, leaving behind her husband, an #antiques dealer. Sitting in their bedroom with the body lying in state, the widower remembers her. In his memory, she is nameless, abstract, a state not a life..

 

Une femme douce is closely adapted from Fyodor #Dostoyevsky Кроткая [Krotkaya / A Gentle Creature] (1876).