gambling &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:gambling @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:41:58 +0200 La baie des anges [Bay of Angels] (Jacques Demy, 1963) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/la-baie-des-anges-1963 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" La baie des anges [Bay of Angels] (Jacques Demy, 1963)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 6/div div class="occasion" mercredi/div div class="img" La baie des anges (1963)/div div class="caption" The bank where Jean Fournier (Claude Mann) works. A wall calendar, slightly tilted, reads Août 6 Mercredi. DP: Jean Rabier./div div class="txt" "Life has its tricks. Its oddities." ### – Jackie Demaistre\ /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #JacquesDemy #JeanneMoreau #ClaudeMann #MichelLegrand #JeanRabier #drama #romance #gambling #addiction #Monaco #France #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

La baie des anges [Bay of Angels] (Jacques Demy, 1963)

Aug

6

mercredi

La baie des anges (1963)

The bank where Jean Fournier (Claude Mann) works. A wall calendar, slightly tilted, reads Août 6 Mercredi. DP: Jean Rabier.

“Life has its tricks. Its oddities.”

– Jackie Demaistre

#FilmDuJour #August #JacquesDemy #JeanneMoreau #ClaudeMann #MichelLegrand #JeanRabier #drama #romance #gambling #addiction #Monaco #France #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/la-baie-des-anges-1963 Wed, 06 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0200 Bob le flambeur [Bob the Gambler] (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1956) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-y8br <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Bob le flambeur [Bob the Gambler] (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1956)/div div class="month" Jun/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 13/div div class="occasion" frites/div div class="img" Bob le flambeur (1956)/div div class="caption" Anne (Isabelle Corey), a cute blonde with a beret, eats a fry (French, obviously) while giving us a side glance. It's all very proto-Vague. DP: Henri Decaë./div div class="txt" – I saw you the other morning, eating frites. – I like frites. /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #fries #JeanPierreMelville #IsabelleCorey #DanielCauchy #RogerDuchesne #GuyDecomble #HowardVernon #EddieBarclay #JoBoyer #HenriDecaë #drama #crime #heist #gambling #FilmNoir #Paris #France #1950s ★★★★★/div /section ]]>

Bob le flambeur [Bob the Gambler] (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1956)

Jun

13

frites

Bob le flambeur (1956)

Anne (Isabelle Corey), a cute blonde with a beret, eats a fry (French, obviously) while giving us a side glance. It's all very proto-Vague. DP: Henri Decaë.

– I saw you the other morning, eating frites.

– I like frites.

#FilmDinner #fries #JeanPierreMelville #IsabelleCorey #DanielCauchy #RogerDuchesne #GuyDecomble #HowardVernon #EddieBarclay #JoBoyer #HenriDecaë #drama #crime #heist #gambling #FilmNoir #Paris #France #1950s ★★★★★

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-y8br Fri, 13 Jun 2025 21:00:00 +0200 Bob le flambeur [Bob the Gambler] (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1956) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-lvwt <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Bob le flambeur [Bob the Gambler] (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1956)/div div class="month" Jun/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 13/div div class="occasion" Friday/div div class="img" Bob le flambeur (1956)/div div class="caption" Bob (Roger Duchesne) at the tables, gambling. DP: Henri Decaë./div div class="txt" An unlucky character on Friday the 13supth/sup "I'd even lose at hopscotch these days." ### – Bob Montagné Bob gambles, and always wins. But then he starts losing. And not just games./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #FridayThe13th #JeanPierreMelville #IsabelleCorey #DanielCauchy #RogerDuchesne #GuyDecomble #HowardVernon #EddieBarclay #JoBoyer #HenriDecaë #drama #crime #heist #gambling #FilmNoir #Paris #France #1950s ★★★★★/div /section ]]>

Bob le flambeur [Bob the Gambler] (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1956)

Jun

13

Friday

Bob le flambeur (1956)

Bob (Roger Duchesne) at the tables, gambling. DP: Henri Decaë.

An unlucky character on Friday the 13th

“I'd even lose at hopscotch these days.”

– Bob Montagné

Bob gambles, and always wins. But then he starts losing. And not just games.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #FridayThe13th #JeanPierreMelville #IsabelleCorey #DanielCauchy #RogerDuchesne #GuyDecomble #HowardVernon #EddieBarclay #JoBoyer #HenriDecaë #drama #crime #heist #gambling #FilmNoir #Paris #France #1950s ★★★★★

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-lvwt Fri, 13 Jun 2025 16:00:00 +0200 La baie des anges [Bay of Angels] (Jacques Demy, 1963) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-6v5t <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" La baie des anges [Bay of Angels] (Jacques Demy, 1963)/div div class="month" Jan/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 9/div div class="occasion" Wheel of Fortune/div div class="img" La baie des anges (1963)/div div class="caption" Jean (Claude Mann) and Jackie (Jeanne Moreau) at a casino table. The tension is palpable. DP: Jean Rabier./div div class="txt" Good, or bad, fortune on the day Wheel of Fortune premiered in 1975. – How much did you win? – 500,000 in less than an hour. It's immoral, but no more than anything else. No more than poverty or ugliness. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #JacquesDemy #JeanneMoreau #ClaudeMann #MichelLegrand #JeanRabier #drama #romance #gambling #addiction #Monaco #France #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

La baie des anges [Bay of Angels] (Jacques Demy, 1963)

Jan

9

Wheel of Fortune

La baie des anges (1963)

Jean (Claude Mann) and Jackie (Jeanne Moreau) at a casino table. The tension is palpable. DP: Jean Rabier.

Good, or bad, fortune on the day Wheel of Fortune premiered in 1975.

– How much did you win?

– 500,000 in less than an hour. It's immoral, but no more than anything else. No more than poverty or ugliness.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #JacquesDemy #JeanneMoreau #ClaudeMann #MichelLegrand #JeanRabier #drama #romance #gambling #addiction #Monaco #France #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-6v5t Thu, 09 Jan 2025 12:00:00 +0100 La baie des anges [Bay of Angels] (Jacques Demy, 1963) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/la-baie-des-anges-1963-xkc3 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" La baie des anges [Bay of Angels] (Jacques Demy, 1963)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 23/div div class="occasion" pears/div div class="img" La baie des anges (1963)/div div class="caption" A blonde Moreau at a restaurant table with a man seen from the back. There are several semi-empty wine glasses and pears sliced lengthwise on a plate, covered with a napkin. Jeanne's character Jackie Demaistre is holding a small sheet of paper with a schematic drawing of a roulette wheel while throwing the man a sceptical glance. DP: Jean Rabier./div div class="txt" "We'll go back to Nice tomorrow. The Bay of Angels brings us luck." ### – Jean Fournier /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #JacquesDemy #JeanneMoreau #ClaudeMann #MichelLegrand #JeanRabier #pears #fruit #drama #romance #gambling #addiction #Monaco #France #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

La baie des anges [Bay of Angels] (Jacques Demy, 1963)

Dec

23

pears

La baie des anges (1963)

A blonde Moreau at a restaurant table with a man seen from the back. There are several semi-empty wine glasses and pears sliced lengthwise on a plate, covered with a napkin. Jeanne's character Jackie Demaistre is holding a small sheet of paper with a schematic drawing of a roulette wheel while throwing the man a sceptical glance. DP: Jean Rabier.

“We'll go back to Nice tomorrow. The Bay of Angels brings us luck.”

– Jean Fournier

#FilmDinner #JacquesDemy #JeanneMoreau #ClaudeMann #MichelLegrand #JeanRabier #pears #fruit #drama #romance #gambling #addiction #Monaco #France #1960s ★★★★☆

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