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March 20: French spoken on

A Walloon language professor and his French set designer fiancée are at an impasse. While his Flemish students vocally protest against more Walloon influence at their uni, the couple - who superficially speak the same , - struggles to find the right words. They meet, part ways, then find each other again on a train that at morning turns out to be standing still in the middle of nowhere. The man, now without her, disembarks and with two acquaintances who also were on that train tries to find out where he and she are. André Delvaux's Un soir, un train (1968) is a masterpiece about finding the right language in a fractured world.

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12pt9 · @12pt9
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March 7: a town meeting for

Raymond Rouleau's Les sorcières de (FR/GDR, 1957) – , with a screenplay by Marxist philosopher Jean-Paul – is a very early adaptation of Arthur Miller's 1953 The Crucible. An allegory of , the play is a (partially dramatised) retelling of the , a dramatic episode in early US-American history. During several court and town meetings, 200 people were falsely accused of meddling with the Devil; 19 of them were eventually executed.

Miller himself was accused of un-American activities in 1956 and convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to identify others present at meetings he had attended. Which doesn't mean that are a thing of the past. As easily one can transplant Puritan religious mass hysteria to 1950s McCarthy anti-socialism, as easy is it applicable to the state of the world today.

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A late-ish once again. And a rewatch. Again.

Watching André Delvaux's Un soir, un train [One Night… a Train] (BE/FR, 1968), starring the grand Yves Montand and Anouk Aimée, and based on the novella by Johan Daisne. Both writer and directer worked on De man die zijn haar kort liet knippen [The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short] (1965), one of the most sublime films I've watched this year so far.

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Een film over relaties zonder orthodoxe ideeën hoe die liefde eruit zou moeten zien, mooi vormgegeven, met o.a prachtige Romy Schneider en geloofwaardige Yves Montand. Cesar et Rosalie
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A great day, as Henri Verneuil’s fantastic 1979 conspiracy thriller I… For Icarus finally is available restored on BD and with English subs! It’s basically a French take on the JFK assassination, and it’s a keeper! ❤️

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Fred Andersson · @homosatanis
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Amazing, finally Henri Verneuil's brilliant conspiracy thriller I... comme icare (aka I... For Icarus) is out on blu-ray with English subs! It's basically a French take on the JFK assassination and it's one of my absolute favorite French movies ever.

#FrenchCinema #conspiracy #jfk #yvesmontand

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