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La fin du jour

19391939
1 h 39 grand

Victor Francen, Louis Jouvet, Madeleine Ozeray, and Michel Simon in La fin du jour (1939)

Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. 1 mean solar day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of l... Read all Aged penniless actors are living in a sometime people'south habitation. They always talk about their past glory or failures. Ane day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back, and jealousies... A bitter film about aging, failure and ... Read all Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's dwelling house. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back, and jealousies... A biting film about crumbling, failure and the entertainment.

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A loving, multi-layered portrayal of the globe of performers, seen in old age

Information technology's been decades since I've seen this French classic, but I'm bemused by the description of it equally "bitter". Like Dustin Hoffman's new "Quartet" (2012), it views crumbling performers both wistfully and lovingly and certainly not without humor. In that location is a harsher and more tragic incident at the eye of the chief conflict here, merely ultimately the film is a loving portrayal of everyone from the truly great to the mediocre but devoted personalities that brand upwards the theater. It is a homage in other words to the whole globe of performing, which of course ranges from tragic to comic figures, from stars to failures, but, as stirringly presented in one speech communication here, is united, and set apart, past a shared passion. The climactic scene is expertly orchestrated and the words "We, the poor, the obscure" ("Nous, les pauvres, les obscures") from a classic play are re-purposed to devastating result, so much so that they linger with me decades later. As does, not a biting, but an uplifting sense of the dignity of living i'southward life in service to art, even if the rewards at "the cease of the solar day" may be no more than bloodshot memories. -- Probably hard to find, just if you lot sympathise French (I doubt anyone's taken the problem to sub-title this), worth the endeavor.