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Bringing Up Baby (English version)
Location
Main screening room
Date
July 5th, 2022
Duration
102 min
Cycle
The essentials

Making lists is an activity moviegoers are fond of. Every year, the same ritual: compilation of the ten best films, with comparative analyses, debates, heated discussions. But what about the ultimate list of the most outstanding films in the history of cinema? That is to say, those films that must be seen, those that have forever transformed the art of cinema, but also our way of seeing a culture, of understanding the world as well as our own lives? This program aims to tackle this challenge with nearly eighty films, produced between 1916 and 1960, while waiting for your lists!

Bringing Up Baby
Directed by
Howard Hawks
Language
English version
Actors
Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Charles Ruggles
Origins
USA
Year
1938
Duration
102 min
Genre
Comedy
Format
35 mm
Synopsis

To win the love of a shy zoology professor, a rich heiress employs the most outlandish means.

Bringing Up Baby
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Howard Hawks

Born into a family of industrialists, Howard Hawks made his debut in Hollywood as a prop maker following a chance meeting with Victor Fleming during a car race. After a hiatus as an Air Force instructor during World War I, he returned to the movies as soon as he could. After working as a screenwriter, he switched to directing in the mid-1920s and successfully made the transition from silent to talkies, including detective films and aviation stories based on his own experience. From the 1930s to the 1960s, Hawks seized the typical genres of Hollywood cinema to sign some of the most representative masterpieces: including the gangster film (Scarface), screwball comedy (Bringing Up Baby), film noir (The Big Sleep), the musical (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) or the western (Rio Bravo).

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The script is a masterpiece of structure, with too many double entendres to count.
Sheila O'Malley, Politico
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