RenéClément &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:RenéClément @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:51:04 +0200 Le passager de la pluie [Rider on the Rain] (René Clément, 1970) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/le-passager-de-la-pluie-1970 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Le passager de la pluie [Rider on the Rain] (René Clément, 1970)/div div class="month" Oct/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 10/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Le passager de la pluie (1970)/div div class="caption" Mélancolie 'Mellie' Mau (Marlène Jobert) and Col. Harry Dobbs (Charles Bronson), dancing. DP: Andréas Winding./div div class="txt" – You expect me to eat that? – Americans live on ketchup and milk. I'm a whiz at geography. /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #October #RenéClément #CharlesBronson #MarlèneJobert #FrancisLai #AndréasWinding #crime #drama #mystery #France #Italy #1970s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Le passager de la pluie [Rider on the Rain] (René Clément, 1970)

Oct

10

Le passager de la pluie (1970)

Mélancolie 'Mellie' Mau (Marlène Jobert) and Col. Harry Dobbs (Charles Bronson), dancing. DP: Andréas Winding.

– You expect me to eat that?

– Americans live on ketchup and milk. I'm a whiz at geography.

#FilmDuJour #October #RenéClément #CharlesBronson #MarlèneJobert #FrancisLai #AndréasWinding #crime #drama #mystery #France #Italy #1970s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/le-passager-de-la-pluie-1970 Fri, 10 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0200 Plein soleil [Purple Noon] (René Clément, 1960) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-wmff <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Plein soleil [Purple Noon] (René Clément, 1960)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 20/div div class="occasion" 1959/div div class="img" Plein soleil (1960)/div div class="caption" A contract for Marge, a sailboat, dated August 20, 1959. DP: Henri Decaë./div div class="txt" "Marge, my love, my angel." ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #RenéClément #PatriciaHighsmith #AlainDelon #MarieLaforêt #MauriceRonet #RomySchneider #NinoRota #HenriDecaë #crime #thriller #BookAdaptation #France #Italy #1960s ★★★☆☆/div /section ]]>

Plein soleil [Purple Noon] (René Clément, 1960)

Aug

20

1959

Plein soleil (1960)

A contract for Marge, a sailboat, dated August 20, 1959. DP: Henri Decaë.

“Marge, my love, my angel.”

#FilmDuJour #August #RenéClément #PatriciaHighsmith #AlainDelon #MarieLaforêt #MauriceRonet #RomySchneider #NinoRota #HenriDecaë #crime #thriller #BookAdaptation #France #Italy #1960s ★★★☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-wmff Wed, 20 Aug 2025 10:00:00 +0200 Les félins [Joy House / The Love Cage] (René Clément, 1964) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-09r3 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Les félins [Joy House / The Love Cage] (René Clément, 1964)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 14/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Les félins (1964)/div div class="caption" Barbara Hill (Lola Albright) going through Marc Borel's (Alain Delon) passport, which states Marc's date of birth as May 14. On Barbara's desk several curiosities, including a shrunken head in a glass case. DP: Henri Decaë./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #RenéClément #DayKeene #JaneFonda #AlainDelon #LolaAlbright #CarlStuder #SorrellBooke #LaloSchifrin #HenriDecaë #crime #mystery #comedy #jazz #BookAdaptation #France #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Les félins [Joy House / The Love Cage] (René Clément, 1964)

May

14

Les félins (1964)

Barbara Hill (Lola Albright) going through Marc Borel's (Alain Delon) passport, which states Marc's date of birth as May 14. On Barbara's desk several curiosities, including a shrunken head in a glass case. DP: Henri Decaë.

#FilmDuJour #May #RenéClément #DayKeene #JaneFonda #AlainDelon #LolaAlbright #CarlStuder #SorrellBooke #LaloSchifrin #HenriDecaë #crime #mystery #comedy #jazz #BookAdaptation #France #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-09r3 Wed, 14 May 2025 09:00:00 +0200 Plein soleil [Purple Noon] (René Clément, 1960) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-8709 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Plein soleil [Purple Noon] (René Clément, 1960)/div div class="month" Jun/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 15/div div class="occasion" croissants /div div class="img" Plein soleil (1960)/div div class="caption" Tom Ripley (Alain Delon) going though his passport over breakfast. Multiple passport photos, a fountain pen, and a magnifying glass take precedence over his fresh croissants. DP: Henri Decaë./div div class="txt" "Why bother having money when you can spend other people's?" ### – Philippe Greenleaf\ /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #breakfast #croissants #bread #RenéClément #PatriciaHighsmith #AlainDelon #MarieLaforêt #MauriceRonet #RomySchneider #NinoRota #HenriDecaë #crime #thriller #BookAdaptation #France #Italy #1960s ★★★☆☆/div /section ]]>

Plein soleil [Purple Noon] (René Clément, 1960)

Jun

15

croissants

Plein soleil (1960)

Tom Ripley (Alain Delon) going though his passport over breakfast. Multiple passport photos, a fountain pen, and a magnifying glass take precedence over his fresh croissants. DP: Henri Decaë.

“Why bother having money when you can spend other people's?”

– Philippe Greenleaf

#FilmDinner #breakfast #croissants #bread #RenéClément #PatriciaHighsmith #AlainDelon #MarieLaforêt #MauriceRonet #RomySchneider #NinoRota #HenriDecaë #crime #thriller #BookAdaptation #France #Italy #1960s ★★★☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-8709 Sat, 15 Jun 2024 01:43:21 +0200 La Belle et la Bête [Beauty and the Beast] (Jean Cocteau + René Clément, 1946) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/la-belle-et-la-bete-1946 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" La Belle et la Bête [Beauty and the Beast] (Jean Cocteau + René Clément, 1946)/div div class="month" Nov/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 28/div div class="occasion" Giving Tuesday/div div class="img" La Belle et la Bête (1946)/div div class="caption" The most beautiful flower, a rose, in La Bête's enchanted garden. DP: Henri Alekan./div div class="txt" Someone is given something special for Giving Tuesday (USA)\ &nbsp; Just before leaving home for a business trip, a father asks his three daughters what he can bring them as a return gift. The eldest two ask for silly, extravagant things. A monkey! A parrot! The youngest simply wishes the most beautiful flower which the father finds in an enchanted garden, guarded by a terrible beast. And will pay for with his life unless he gives his youngest away to the beast, to die in his place.\ – Can such miracles really happen? - You and I are living proof. ### ##### #Cocteau and Clément's La Belle et la Bête is of course based on Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve's fairy-tale, which on its turn was based on the classic myth of Cupid and Psyche./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #GivingTuesday #JeanCocteau #RenéClément #GabrielleSuzanneDeVilleneuve #JeanneMarieLeprinceDeBeaumont #JeanMarais #JosetteDay #ChristianBérard #LucienCarré #Carré #RenéMoulaert #HenriAlekan #GeorgesAuric #BookAdaptation #mythology #drama #fantasy #melodrama #fairytale #romance #flowers #France #1940s ★★★½ /div /section ]]>

La Belle et la Bête [Beauty and the Beast] (Jean Cocteau + René Clément, 1946)

Nov

28

Giving Tuesday

La Belle et la Bête (1946)

The most beautiful flower, a rose, in La Bête's enchanted garden. DP: Henri Alekan.

Someone is given something special for Giving Tuesday (USA)

 

Just before leaving home for a business trip, a father asks his three daughters what he can bring them as a return gift. The eldest two ask for silly, extravagant things. A monkey! A parrot! The youngest simply wishes the most beautiful flower which the father finds in an enchanted garden, guarded by a terrible beast. And will pay for with his life unless he gives his youngest away to the beast, to die in his place.

– Can such miracles really happen? – You and I are living proof.

#Cocteau and Clément's La Belle et la Bête is of course based on Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve's fairy-tale, which on its turn was based on the classic myth of Cupid and Psyche.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #GivingTuesday #JeanCocteau #RenéClément #GabrielleSuzanneDeVilleneuve #JeanneMarieLeprinceDeBeaumont #JeanMarais #JosetteDay #ChristianBérard #LucienCarré #Carré #RenéMoulaert #HenriAlekan #GeorgesAuric #BookAdaptation #mythology #drama #fantasy #melodrama #fairytale #romance #flowers #France #1940s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/la-belle-et-la-bete-1946 Tue, 28 Nov 2023 14:14:41 +0100 La Belle et la Bête [Beauty and the Beast] (Jean Cocteau + René Clément, 1946) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/la-belle-et-la-bete-1946-ty7j <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" La Belle et la Bête [Beauty and the Beast] (Jean Cocteau + René Clément, 1946)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 15/div div class="occasion" a cornucopia of wonder/div div class="img" La Belle et la Bête (1946)/div div class="caption" La Belle (Josette Day) at a fancy table stacked with good foods and nice wines. She's cleaning her fingernails with the silverware while a chagrined Bête (Jean Marais) looks on. As magical as the story are the production and set design by Christian Bérard, Lucien Carré, and René Moulaert. They breathed a soul into almost everything, including the candelabras. DP: Henri Alekan./div div class="txt" – Does he crawl on four legs? What does he eat and drink? – I've given him water to drink on occasion. He would never eat me. ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #fruit #JeanCocteau #RenéClément #GabrielleSuzanneDeVilleneuve #JeanneMarieLeprinceDeBeaumont #JeanMarais #JosetteDay #ChristianBérard #LucienCarré #Carré #RenéMoulaert #HenriAlekan #GeorgesAuric #BookAdaptation #mythology #drama #fantasy #melodrama #fairytale #romance #France #1940s ★★★½ /div /section ]]>

La Belle et la Bête [Beauty and the Beast] (Jean Cocteau + René Clément, 1946)

Aug

15

a cornucopia of wonder

La Belle et la Bête (1946)

La Belle (Josette Day) at a fancy table stacked with good foods and nice wines. She's cleaning her fingernails with the silverware while a chagrined Bête (Jean Marais) looks on. As magical as the story are the production and set design by Christian Bérard, Lucien Carré, and René Moulaert. They breathed a soul into almost everything, including the candelabras. DP: Henri Alekan.

– Does he crawl on four legs? What does he eat and drink?

– I've given him water to drink on occasion. He would never eat me.

#FilmDinner #fruit #JeanCocteau #RenéClément #GabrielleSuzanneDeVilleneuve #JeanneMarieLeprinceDeBeaumont #JeanMarais #JosetteDay #ChristianBérard #LucienCarré #Carré #RenéMoulaert #HenriAlekan #GeorgesAuric #BookAdaptation #mythology #drama #fantasy #melodrama #fairytale #romance #France #1940s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/la-belle-et-la-bete-1946-ty7j Tue, 15 Aug 2023 13:12:23 +0200