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Leonide Moguy was reportedly appreciated by Quentin Tarentino : he must have singled out "le déserteur "(aka "je t'attendrai" ) his towering achievement (1939) which ,in the history of cinema,was to my knowledge the first movie with a real-time structure. And perhaps his thriller "whistle stop" starring Ava Gardner.
The rest of his career ,which encompasses not only France ,but also the US and Italy ;it essentially deal s with women getting a raw deal :female juvenile deliquency ("prisons sans barreaux" ),sex education ("domini è troppo tardi"),prostitution ("le long des trottoirs".)girls dreaming of movie stardom and meting the harsh world of the pictures ("donnez-moi ma chance"
"Les enfants de l'amour " follows suit ;it depics the plight of unwed moms ,all the action taking place in a home for these poor girls ,whose boyfriend told them to face it on their own and whose family is ashamed of illegitimate children
One follows the destiny of three girls: the screenplay is terribly melodramatic and today this kind of movie has not aged well ;this genre can spawn great works (Pabst's "das Tagebuch einer verlorenen,", 1929) but it takes another approach and mainly a first-class direction. Here the story(ies) is/are cut and dried , between finer feelings galore -the highschool boy ,learning he's fathered a child and running to his ertswhile sweeetheart- and hard bourgeois prejudices (Mylène Demongeot's parents who insist her baby be in care (in state custody) .There's also the good handsome doctor, a Kildare of sorts (Jean-Claude Pascal ) who has a crush on the social worker (who , what a surprise,is also an unwed mother :it's surprising nobody supported her-particularly the state- when she gave birth to her baby when you know who she and her dad were!)
At the time ,it could be considered a heartfelt plea for sex education,family planning ;the doctor even hints at abortion in th utmost cases,which was risqué for the 1950s.
The rest of his career ,which encompasses not only France ,but also the US and Italy ;it essentially deal s with women getting a raw deal :female juvenile deliquency ("prisons sans barreaux" ),sex education ("domini è troppo tardi"),prostitution ("le long des trottoirs".)girls dreaming of movie stardom and meting the harsh world of the pictures ("donnez-moi ma chance"
"Les enfants de l'amour " follows suit ;it depics the plight of unwed moms ,all the action taking place in a home for these poor girls ,whose boyfriend told them to face it on their own and whose family is ashamed of illegitimate children
One follows the destiny of three girls: the screenplay is terribly melodramatic and today this kind of movie has not aged well ;this genre can spawn great works (Pabst's "das Tagebuch einer verlorenen,", 1929) but it takes another approach and mainly a first-class direction. Here the story(ies) is/are cut and dried , between finer feelings galore -the highschool boy ,learning he's fathered a child and running to his ertswhile sweeetheart- and hard bourgeois prejudices (Mylène Demongeot's parents who insist her baby be in care (in state custody) .There's also the good handsome doctor, a Kildare of sorts (Jean-Claude Pascal ) who has a crush on the social worker (who , what a surprise,is also an unwed mother :it's surprising nobody supported her-particularly the state- when she gave birth to her baby when you know who she and her dad were!)
At the time ,it could be considered a heartfelt plea for sex education,family planning ;the doctor even hints at abortion in th utmost cases,which was risqué for the 1950s.
- ulicknormanowen
- Dec 4, 2023
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- alexi-78398
- Sep 4, 2018
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