Un carnet de bal (1937)
DVD9 Custom | VIDEO_TS | PAL 4:3 | 02:05:00 | 7,77 Gb
Audio: French AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: French, English (added)
Genre: Drama
DVD9 Custom | VIDEO_TS | PAL 4:3 | 02:05:00 | 7,77 Gb
Audio: French AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: French, English (added)
Genre: Drama
Director: Julien Duvivier
After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him instead of the man towards whom, in her youth, she had a stronger inclination. To overcome these dreary thoughts, she decides to find out about him and the other men who danced with her during a ball that was a turning point in her life, many years ago. She pays a visit to those forgotten acquaintances one after the other; Christine is not only surprised to see how they have fared, but also discovers the impact she had, unknowingly, on the feelings and the destiny of these persons.
DVD Distributor: Gaumont
Un carnet de bal is a good example of French cinema of the late1930s, and one of the earliest successful attempts at the episodic film which became so popular in subsequent decades.
The multi-part structure of the film (effectively a series of loosely connected vignettes) is a little unsatisfying, but the individual stories are themselves almost perfectly formed. It is worth seeing if only for the remarkable performances of the legendary actors that make up the cast list: Jouvet, Fernandel, Raimu, Baur…
The director, Julien Duvivier, was so pleased with this film that he remade it during his time in Hollywood, in 1941, as Lydia.James Travers, Films de France
While Godard and co were still in diapers, Duvivier, Renoir and Carné were inventing the best French cinema that had ever been. I would trade you all M."A bout de soufflé" filmography for "un carnet de bal"
Leonard Maltin gives a four stars rating to this 1937 movie, and all we can do is approve of his judgment. The movie of nostalgia, of time passing by,of disenchantment, "un carnet de bal" is all this and more.
On the banks of a lake - the romantic place par excellence-, a woman is remembering her past. Her madeleine de Proust is her dance card. "Memories tumbling like sweets from a jar". But these sweets leave a bitter taste in the mouth.
She goes back in the past, in search of her long lost dance partners. She will have to delude herself: what she discovers is ruined lives, regrets, embittered characters, human wrecks. Time is a hard Master and it leaves no one unharmed. As always in Duvivier's work, the harder they fall, the better the sketches are. For it is basically a movie made up of sketches,Julien Duvivier's métier. All youth ideals have gone down the drain: the brilliant medicine student has become an abortionist; the lawyer with bright prospects now has a lousy shady cabaret; one of the woman's beaus is dead and his mother gone nuts acts as if he's still alive. Two of them have escaped to a doomed fate: but one has become a priest and the other keeps his love for something else than women.
The movie made up of sketches, as I said, has always been Duvivier's forte. Here, there are seven flashbacks, one prologue and one short epilogue: strange how this final resembles that of Mitchell Leisen's "to each his own" (1942), when the boy says to Olivia De Havilland: "I think it's our dance mother". Having directed with a topflight cast "tales of Manhattan" (1942) in America, Duvivier went even further in the "sketches movie": in "sous le ciel de Paris", he used intertwined little stories till all these subplots became a seamless whole.
Yes, Julien Duvivier's importance in the seventh art is incalculable.IMDB Reviewer,
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