Focus "Survival" 10/12

Le Prix du danger (1983)

★★★☆

Dystopique, politique et cynique, 40ans plus tard, le film reste toujours d’actualité.

✍️ https://www.senscritique.com/film/le_prix_du_danger/critique/292056632

#LePrixDuDanger #YvesBoisset #GérardLanvin #MichelPiccoli #BrunoCremer #Survival #ChasseàLhomme #Traque #Film #Cinema

#Bales2023FilmChallenge July 31: watermelon on #NationalWatermelonDay

#MarcoFerreri's Dillinger è morto (1969) is a story of food & alienation. #MichelPiccoli's Glauco, bored of his successful career, bored of his beautiful wife, bored of his beautiful house, finds sudden vigour in the act of preparing #food and restoring an item that shouldn't be where it is and with that, essentially recreates #JohnDillinger's escape from Crown Point ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/dillinger-e-morto-1969

#film #cinema #FilMastodon @film

41 years ago:
Godard's Passion (FR,CH)
Original title: Passion
While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory worker that has been laid off by a boss who did not like her union activities.
1982-05-26
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/32692
#GodardsPassion #JeanLucGodard #LaNouvelleVague #IsabelleHuppert #HannaSchygulla #MichelPiccoli #ClassicMovies

47 years ago:
F as in Fairbanks (FR)
Original title: F… comme Fairbanks
André Fragman, nicknamed "Fairbanks" after his childhood idol by his film projectionist father, returns home from military service. He meets and falls in love with Marie, an aspiring actress who is rehearsing for a stage production of 'Alice in Wonderland'. All his attempts to find a job and a wa...
1976-05-05
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/72685
#FasinFairbanks #PatrickDewaere #MiouMiou #MichelPiccoli #Movies

47 years ago:
The Last Woman (FR,IT)
Original title: La Dernière Femme
Gerard and his 9-month-old son have been left by his wife for feminist reasons. The custody of his son is being threatened by his next romance.
1976-04-20
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/3935
#TheLastWoman #MarcoFerreri #GérardDepardieu #OrnellaMuti #MichelPiccoli #Movies

45 years ago:
The Savage State (FR)
Original title: L'État sauvage
L'Etat Sauvage is based on the novel by Georges Conchon which won the highly esteemed Prix de Goncourt. The story chronicles the mindless racism of both the departing French colonial overlords and the emergent black Africans in a newly emerging African state. Laurence (Marie-Christine Barrault) suff...
1978-04-18
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/265586
#TheSavageState #ClaudeBrasseur #JacquesDutronc #MichelPiccoli

39 years ago:
Dangerous Moves (FR,LI,CH)
Original title: La Diagonale du fou
World Chess Champion Akiva Liebskind (Michel Piccoli) faces his former pupil Pavius Fromm (Alexandre Arbatt), who defected to the West from the Soviet Union five years earlier, for the World Chess Championship in Geneva, Switzerland. The tension and strategies between the players draw parallels to t...
1984-04-15
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/46088
#DangerousMoves #MichelPiccoli #LivUllmann #LeslieCaron

41 years ago:
The Passerby (FR,DE)
Original title: La Passante du Sans-Souci
Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman who founded an international organization fighting against violations of human rights. Why would he commit an act that apparently negates the principles he has striven for so long to uphold? As he is tried for first-degree murder for killing a Paraguayan amba...
1982-04-14
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/5063
#ThePasserby #RomySchneider #MichelPiccoli #MathieuCarrière #Movies

53 years ago:
The Things of Life (CH,FR,IT)
Original title: Les Choses de la vie
The mind of Pierre Bérard, a successful middle-aged architect, is torn between his unstable present with Hélène, his younger lover, and his happy memories of the past with Catherine, his ex-wife; but his true destiny awaits him at a crossroads on his way to Rennes…
1970-03-13
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/3423
#TheThingsofLife #MichelPiccoli #RomySchneider #LeaMassari #JacquelineThiédot #Movies

#Bales2023FilmChallenge March 9: Someone going potty for #WorldKidneyDay

“Madrid was filled with the stench of – pardon my language – food. It was indecent.”

Eating is taboo, and relieving oneself is performed on a toilet at a communal table in Luis Buñuel's Le fantôme de la liberté [The Phantom of Liberty] (FR/IT, 1974). Le fantôme strings together events from #Buñuel's life (he was 74 by the time he made this film), with dreams remembered by both Buñuel and co-writer Jean-Claude Carrière. The title references the opening sentence from Marx/Engels' Communist Manifesto. What follows is a wonderful, free-flowing pastiche performed by a sublime cast.

#film #LuisBuñuel #JeanClaudeCarrière #MichelPiccoli #MonicaVitti @film https://letterboxd.com/12pt9/list/bales2023filmchallenge/

52 years ago:
Max and the Junkmen (FR,IT)
Original title: Max et les ferrailleurs
Max is a Paris detective, aloof, independently wealthy, and frustrated by gangs of robbers whom he cannot catch. To re-establish his stature and save face, he decides to inveigle a group of petty thieves (led by an old acquaintance) to rob a bank. A reluctant captain provides Max intelligence and Ma...
1971-02-17
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/3427
#MaxandtheJunkmen #MichelPiccoli #RomySchneider #FrançoisPérier

38 years ago:
Death in a French Garden (FR)
Original title: Péril en la demeure
The wealthy Tombsthays hire a guitar tutor, David Aurphet, for their daughter Vivian. The wife, Julia, begins a passionate affair with David. Edwige, Julia's new neighbour, also takes an interest in David. David is attacked one night on returning home but saved by a mysterious stranger Daniel who re...
1985-02-13
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/24583
#DeathinaFrenchGarden #ChristopheMalavoy #MichelPiccoli #Anémone

31 years ago:
Le bal des casse-pieds (FR)
A tolerant veterinarian turns the other cheek when annoyed but changes his nature when he falls in love.
1992-02-12
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/76793
#Lebaldescassepieds #YvesRobert #JeanRochefort #MiouMiou #MichelPiccoli #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

Mauvais sang (1986) - Leos Carax
Lavant embodying its exuberance and devastation with his acrobatic skills, no one did first love and its heartbreak like Carax in his first three films. Oh man, this film is so dear to my heart.
#LeosCarax #juliettebinoche #JulieDelphy #DenisLavant #MichelPiccoli #cinemadulook #frenchcinema #jeanyvesescoffier

IL MUSICISTA-LOGGIONISTA: MICHEL PICCOLI https://il-musicista-loggionista.blogspot.com/2022/12/michel-piccoli.html?spref=tw #Piccoli #MichelPiccoli #France #Movie #Hitchcock #Berlin #Cannes #Scola #Bellocchio #Ferreri #Moretti #Castellitto #Venezia #Cinema #12maggio

Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint dans "Les Choses de la vie", du temps des massacres sur les routes, Fiat 130 dans "La Grande Bouffe", ce festin suicidaire... Cinq des voitures de cinéma de #MichelPiccoli
https://www.nouvelobs.com/auto-moto/20200522.OBS29195/michel-piccoli-5-de-ses-voitures-de-cinema.html

#MichelPiccoli, "il était impossible de ne pas l’aimer, cet homme-là. C’était un géant, c’était un proche.
A gauche, toute

Quand on l’interrogeait sur sa carrière (deux cents films, cent pièces de théâtre), il avait l’élégance de faire croire qu’il était paresseux : «C’était plus facile d’accepter que de refuser.»"

Michel Piccoli, un géant
https://www.nouvelobs.com/culture/20200518.OBS29025/michel-piccoli-un-geant.html

"Les Choses de la vie" dimanche 24 mai (20h55) suivi d'un portrait par Yves Jeuland de #MichelPiccoli, et un film en ligne, "La belle noiseuse": merci Arte!