Antoine et Antoinette
Le recueil Lumières vives (éditions Boréal, automne 2022) contient de nombreux textes publiés dans le journal de Saint-Hyacinthe Le clairon, à un moment où René Lévesque était journaliste et aussi critique de cinéma. Ces articles passionnants ont passé l'épreuve du temps et permettent de découvrir un auteur clairvoyant, n'hésitant pas à en découdre s'il le faut et à porter aux nues, comme il se doit. La programmation permet de redécouvrir les films de 1948 qui ont marqué ce spectateur hors du commun.
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, father of the director Jean Becker. His films, made during the 1940s and 1950s, encompassed a wide variety of genres, and they were admired by some of the filmmakers who led the French New Wave movement. He began shooting his first film, Cristobal's Gold at the dawn of World War II, but filming was interrupted due to lack of money. It was completed by Jean Stelli while he 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 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1947, and Rendezvous in July (1949), which earned him the Louis Delluc Prize. In 1960, he completed editing one of his finest films, his last: The Hole
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