Key Largo
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.
Introduced by Robert Lévesque
Visiting the Keys, Frank McCloud stops at the hotel run by the family of a friend of his who died in the war. Gangster Johnny Rocco moves into the hotel in preparation for a fraudulent transaction. Tension mounts, while a hurricane approaches... Adapted from a play by Maxwell Anderson by John Huston and Richard Brooks, Key Largo is the fourth and last film featuring the mythical Bogart-Bacall couple.
John Huston
Born in 1906 in Missouri, John Huston was the only son of journalist Rhea Gore and Canadian-born actor Walter Huston. He quickly abandonned his studies to start a career as a boxer, before trying his hand at acting in the footsteps of his father. During the following years, he lived in Mexico and Europe, while starting to write. Recruited by Hollywood, he wrote scripts for William Wyler, Raoul Walsh and Howard Hawks, among others, before starting to direct films in 1941 with The Maltese Falcon, which was an immediate success. During the Second World War, he shot documentaries while in the army. The major works he directed after the war allowed him to establish himself as a leading director, while also pursuing an acting career. Until the 1980s, he built a rich, unpredictable and heterogeneous body of work, just like his passionate life, divided between cinema, painting and horses, the United States, Ireland and Mexico.
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