Showing posts with label Gilles Grangier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gilles Grangier. Show all posts

Le rouge et mis (1957)

Le rouge et mis (1957) is a classic jazz riffs all out good time Parisienne one last job-styled heist and gangsters in pyjamas motor car chase and crash French crime film directed by Gilles Grangier and starring Jean Gabin, with the original French title Le rouge est mis, meaning "the red light is on", and with a screenplay based on a novel by Auguste Le Breton, and which not only mentions the 'serie noire' as its own originator, in a metafictional coup, but which stars French legends Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura, with Paul Frankeur, Marcel Bozzuffi, Annie Girardot, Jean-Pierre Mocky and Lucien Raimbourgand it was 100% réalisé par Gilles Grangier, assisté de Jacques Deray, Jacques Rouffio, et sorti en 1957.

Trois jours à vivre (1957)

Trois jours à vivre (1957) is a French film noir witness to murder paranoia romance in theatreland procedural condemned man doomed to die Gilles Grangier fifties Francophile psychological thriller with Daniel Gélin, Lino Ventura Georges Flamant and Jeanne Moreau.

The facile dogmas propagated by the critics of Cahiers du Cinéma have too long consigned Gilles Grangier to the purgatory of the supposedly mediocre. They accused him of failing to innovate, as if innovation were a gaudy ornament to be affixed for the pleasure of theoreticians rather than an organic necessity arising from the material of a film.