UW Cinematheque: Jacques Becker - A Master Before the Wave
Rue de L'estrapade | France | 1953 | 35mm | 100 min. | French with English subtitles Director: Jacques Becker
Event Details
Date
Saturday, February 2, 2019
Time
7 p.m.
Location
4070 Vilas Hall
Description
Cast: Daniel Gélin, Louis Jourdan, Anne Vernon
Returning to work in France after becoming a star in Hollywood, Jourdan plays a race-car driver and unfaithful husband whose wife (Vernon) moves out and establishes residence on the title street. Becker’s “romantic comedy of decadence, frivolity, and cynicism seems imbued with the very high-gloss lacquer that it derides...Beneath its blithe humor, it is a bleak vision of mismatched lives and misguided mores” (Richard Brody, The New Yorker).
Returning to work in France after becoming a star in Hollywood, Jourdan plays a race-car driver and unfaithful husband whose wife (Vernon) moves out and establishes residence on the title street. Becker’s “romantic comedy of decadence, frivolity, and cynicism seems imbued with the very high-gloss lacquer that it derides...Beneath its blithe humor, it is a bleak vision of mismatched lives and misguided mores” (Richard Brody, The New Yorker).
Cost
Free
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