Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Overall the essays are sombre with only one on the lighter side. Sentito esordio dietro alla macchina da presa di jeanpierre melville. Many great filmmakers never got the posters their films deserved. Il silenzio del mare e il primo film di jeanpierre melville, uscito nel 1947 e tratto dallomonimo romanzo di vercors trama. With howard vernon, nicole stephane, jeanmarie robain, ami aaroe. It was melvilles first feature film, and was based on the 1942 book of the same name by jean bruller published clandestinely under the pen name vercors. The silence of the sea is a 1949 film by jeanpierre melville. Army of shadows yet remains a singularly eerie masterwork in its own right. Clandestinely written in 1942 during the nazi occupation of france and furtively distributed, it captured the spirit of the moment, and quickly became a staple of. Met howard vernon, nicole stephane en jeanmarie robain. Thomas jouannet captain werner the silence of the sea full movie. The metaphorical tact of the title is representative of the work. The uncle and niece refuse to speak to him, but each evening the officer warms himself by the fire and talks of his country, his music, and his idealistic views of the relationship between france.
The story, which takes place in 1941, concerns the relationship of a frenchman jeanmarie robain and his niece nicole stephane with a. It was melvilles first feature film, and was based on the 1942 book of the same name by jean bruller. They do however reflect the situation in france at the time they were written. Nicole stephane, howard vernon en jeanmarie robain. Drama oorlog film geregisseerd door jeanpierre melville. Some of my favorite filmmakersim thinking yasujiro ozu, jacques rivette, mike leigh, and jeanmarie straub, to name just a fewfor one reason or another, whether it be the vagaries of distribution, the particulars of. Against the will of its elderly male and his adult niece residents, the nazis commandeer a house for one of their officers, lt. A second englishlanguage tv adaptation was broadcast by the bbc in 1981, and a stage version by john crowther was performed by the heywood society in the theatre at peterhouse, cambridge in 1985, with the presumably ironic title. Jeanpierre melvilles the silence of the sea returns wsj.
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