On what has up to now been the hottest day of the year in the UK,I started planning on ending the night with a French film viewing. Recently seeing the first 2 in the set,I decided it was time to stop dreaming,and watch the third title in Arrow's Guitry collection.
View on the film:
By far their best presentation of the first 3 in the box set,Arrow delivers a spotless picture (with a lot less grain than the other 2) and a largely clean soundtrack.
Bringing another of his own plays to screen,the style that lead actor/writer/director Sacha Guitry & cinematographer Georges Benoît appears as a halfway house of New Testament and My Father Was Right, via the enticing opening being an extended panning shot, (that offers an eyeful of cameos from Michel Simon and Arletty!)across a number of tables at a gathering that expand on the relaxed feeling Guitry had shown towards cinema in Father, that becomes rolled into the stage-bound,extended takes of New Testament,with Guitry keeping the camera restrained as he performs his own monologue.
Dusting off a play from 20 years ago and completely changing the third act in this adaptation, Raimu as Mari gives the dialogue a refreshing lightness in his exchanges with Guitry's L'amant,thanks to both of them spinning the playful one-liners with the speed of a Screwball Comedy dream.
View on the film:
By far their best presentation of the first 3 in the box set,Arrow delivers a spotless picture (with a lot less grain than the other 2) and a largely clean soundtrack.
Bringing another of his own plays to screen,the style that lead actor/writer/director Sacha Guitry & cinematographer Georges Benoît appears as a halfway house of New Testament and My Father Was Right, via the enticing opening being an extended panning shot, (that offers an eyeful of cameos from Michel Simon and Arletty!)across a number of tables at a gathering that expand on the relaxed feeling Guitry had shown towards cinema in Father, that becomes rolled into the stage-bound,extended takes of New Testament,with Guitry keeping the camera restrained as he performs his own monologue.
Dusting off a play from 20 years ago and completely changing the third act in this adaptation, Raimu as Mari gives the dialogue a refreshing lightness in his exchanges with Guitry's L'amant,thanks to both of them spinning the playful one-liners with the speed of a Screwball Comedy dream.