Antoine and Antoinette
This recurring cycle is an opportunity to watch or re-watch classics from cinema history, or films representative of certain national cinematographies, trends or eras, on the big screen.
Winner of a Grand Prix, 1947 Cannes Film Festival
Antoine, a printing worker, loves Antoinette, a pretty and charming salesgirl in a department store on the Champs-Elysées. Their regulated and happy life, made of little things, kindness, a little jealousy and dreams too, will once come close to tragedy in the form of a lost, but finally found lottery ticket.
Jacques Becker
Jacques Becker was a French film director and screenwriter, and the father of the director Jean Becker. His films, made during the 1940s and 1950s, encompassed a wide variety of genres, and were admired by some of the filmmakers who led the French New Wave. He began shooting his first film, Cristobal's Gold at the start of World War II, but filming was interrupted due to lack of money. It was completed by Jean Stelli while Becker was mobilized. As a prisoner of war, Becker directed the first of three films made during the Occupation, The Trump Card (1942), upon his return to Paris. After the war, he directed several comedies, including Antoine and Antoinette, which won the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1947, and Rendezvous in July (1949), which earned him the Louis Delluc Prize. In 1960, he finished editing one of his finest and last films: The Hole.
Photo: Sam Lévin | Collections de la Cinémathèque québécoise
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