Gervaise ( French: Gervaise ) is a drama film by the French director Rene Clement . A film adaptation of the novel by Emil Zola "Trap". The film was awarded more than 10 prestigious film awards, including the BAFTA Award for Best Film and the FIPRESCI Venice Film Festival Award .
| Gervaise | |
|---|---|
| Gervaise | |
| Genre | drama |
| Producer | Rene Clement |
| Producer | Agnes Delahe |
| Author script | Pierre Bost |
| In the main cast | Maria shell Francois Perrier |
| Operator | |
| Composer | Georges Orique |
| Duration | 117 min |
| A country |  France |
| Tongue | |
| Year | 1956 |
| IMDb | ID 0049259 |
Content
Story
A suburb of Paris , the 1850s. Gervaise (Shell) is a young charming woman suffering from slight limp. She came from the province and, after her cohabitant left her with two children, she was forced to work as a washerwoman. Soon she marries roofer Henri Coupot (Perrier), they have another baby born. The family manages to collect some money, but once during work, Henry breaks down from the roof, and all the savings go to treatment. The husband’s old friend, the blacksmith Gouger (Arden), lends them 500 francs so that Gervaise could open her own small ironing shop and refuse excessive labor in the laundry room. Family affairs are improving again, but Henry starts drinking a lot, spending modest savings in the nearest Zapadnaya zucchini. Turning to Gouguer for a respite, Gervaise notes that he has a romantic affection for her. Virginie Poisson (Deler), a former prostitute, and now the wife of a local police officer, reappears in the quarter. She harbors a hidden hatred for Gervaise for the insult inflicted many years ago.
Gouger, accused of organizing a strike , gets a year in prison. After his release, he, again not having achieved reciprocity from Gervaise, leaves the city in search of work. Lantier (Mestral), a former cohabitant of Gervaisa, returns to Paris. Henry, contrary to the will of his wife, agrees to rent him a room. One evening, Lantier seduces Gervaise. Kupo is in a state of unbridled drunkenness and does not notice anything. Once in a state of alcoholic psychosis, he arranges a complete pogrom in the shop, and after a short time dies in a hospital. The gervaise, abandoned by everyone, having lost customers, begins to drink and very soon loses its human appearance. Her daughter Nana , abandoned by her, leaves the Zapadnaya zucchini and joins other Montmartre little street children [1] .
Cast
- Maria Shell - Gervaise
- Francois Perrier - Henri Coupot, her husband, a roofer
- Jacques Arden - Gouger, The Blacksmith
- Suzy Deler - Virginie Poisson
- Arman Mestral - Lantier, former cohabitant of Gervaise
- Jani Holt - Madame Lorille, sister of Henry
- Rachelle Deviris - Madame Foconnier
Ratings
Rene Clement himself called his film adaptation of the novel Zola "naturalistically documentary." According to Siegfried Krakauer, this film is an example of a successful film adaptation, which was largely due to the cinematic literary source. In his opinion, the authors (screenwriters and director) "managed to penetrate into psychological spheres deeper than Zola himself, without departing from the novel created by the author of the material world." To the most significant differences from Zola’s novel, the critic attributes elements of a socially revealing character and instead “focused on the heroic attempts of Gervaisa to resist the corrupting influence of his environment.” Thus, the authors of the film “created a heroine with somewhat deeper human feelings than that derived in the novel” [2] .
Researchers also find in the film some correspondences with Italian neorealism , which allowed the Polish critic Janusz Gazda to even name his article about Clement's film Zola and Neorealism (Fllm. Warszawa, 1958, No. 15). The Soviet biographer of the director Turitsin V.N. wrote about this:
| The Italians drew inspiration, of course, not from the theories of naturalism, but from their own lives (war, crisis of authority, the rise of popular forces). But nevertheless, between Zola’s novels and the films of Rossellini , Visconti or De Santis , which ascend with some facets to the domestic version of naturalism - verism , there is something in common. It is in almost chronicling passion, in the solidity of sketches of everyday life. In turn, Clement's film evokes “Italian” associations [3] . |
Critics also found a discrepancy in the image of the main character created by the Swiss actress Maria Shell and Gervaise from the novel Zola. According to some press reports, Clement was not completely satisfied with the actress, who was also chosen by the producer [3] . According to the Japanese film expert A. Iwasaki , due to the fact that the actress in the film in German is rational and cold-blooded, neither in her temperament nor character traits, with all her desire, could become a true Zhervezha from Zola’s novel “Parisian, Nan’s mother” :
| Well, only one side of the image turned out to be good: a hard worker, but in Shell there is no sensuality absolutely exciting for a man, which usually happens in a woman who passes from the hands of one man to another. There is also no sensuality in her that would excite her most. The story told in Zapadné cannot evoke sympathy until there is Gervaisa, a near and sensual woman in the spirit of Marilyn Monroe [4] . |
Rewards (Favorite)
- 1956 - Venice Film Festival: FIPRESCI prize for directing (Clement), New Cinema Award and Volpi Cup (both Shell). Nomination of the picture for the Golden Lion Prize .
- 1956 - Bambi : Best German Actress (Shell) [5] .
- 1957 - BAFTA Award: For Best Film , Best Foreign Actor (Perrier). Nomination for Best Foreign Actress (Shell).
- 1957 - Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film .
The Most Expensive Movie
Including inflation, the cost of production amounted to 214 million dollars in 2012 prices [6] [7] . Thus, "Gervais" is the most expensive film shot outside the United States, and ranks 14th in the list of most expensive films in history (as of early 2014).
See also
- The film " The victim of alcohol " (film adaptation of 1902)
Notes
- ↑ Her further fate formed the basis of the novel of the same name by E. Zola and subsequent numerous adaptations.
- ↑ Krakauer, Siegfried. Nature of the film: Rehabilitation of physical reality = Theory of Film. The Redemption of Physical Reality / Shortened translation from English by D. F. Sokolova. - M .: Art, 1974. - S. 312-316.
- ↑ 1 2 Turitsyn V.N. Experience of stylization // Rene Clement. - M .: Art, 1978. - S. 94-108. - 199 p.
- ↑ Iwasaki, Akira. Contemporary Japanese cinema. - M .: Art, 1962. - S. 301-302. - 524 s.
- ↑ Maria, like her brother Maximilian and sister Immi Schell, were born in Vienna and throughout the world have always been recognized as actors - representatives of German-speaking culture.
- ↑ Charts -Les Budgets Des Productions Francaises March 8, 2014 Archived on Wayback Machine
- ↑ Insee - Convertisseur franc-euro: pouvoir d'achat de l'euro et du franc
Literature
- Leproon, Pierre . Rene Clement // Modern French directors. - M.: Publishing house of foreign literature , 1960. - S. 632-657. - 842 s.
- Turitsyn V.N. The experience of stylization // Rene Clement. - M .: Art, 1978. - S. 94-108. - 199 p. ( Masters of earujubnoy cinema art ).
Links
- The Gervais ( Internet ) on the Internet Movie Database
- Gervaise (English) on allmovie
- The Gervesa on the Rotten Tomatoes website