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Les maudits (VOF)
Location
Main screening room
Date
December 19th, 2022
Duration
105 min
Cycle
René Lévesque, critique de cinéma

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.

Les maudits
Directed by
René Clément
Language
French
Actors
Marcel Dalio, Henri Vidal, Florence Marly
Origins
France
Year
1947
Duration
105 min
Genre
Drama
Format
Digital
Synopsis

En 1945, alors que le 3e Reich est à l'agonie, un groupe de nazis et de sympathisants tente de rallier l'Amérique du Sud par sous-marin. Les fuyards se sont assurés par la force le concours d'un jeune médecin. Pour tous les passagers - du chef de la Gestapo au couple d'industriels italiens, du journaliste compromis au savant collaborateur - l'odyssée finira mal. Le médecin va se retrouver seul sur le navire, heureux d'être recueilli par les Américains.

Les maudits
Awards

René Clément

René Clément is the only French director to have won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film twice, for The Walls of Malapaga (1951) and Forbidden Games (1953). He directed his first film, César chez les Gaulois, an animated short, in 1931. In 1934, he met Jacques Tati and began working with him, including on his first short film, the light-hearted comedy Soigne ton gauche (1936). In 1937, he traveled with archaeologist Jules Barthoux to Yemen to shoot a documentary. During World War II, he continued focusing on documentaries, and his short film Ceux du rail (1943) caught the attention of the French film cooperative, which chose him to direct La bataille du rail (1946). This would become his first feature film and a major success, earning him the Jury Prize at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. Clément soon became one of the most prominent French filmmakers of the post-war era. Six years later, his greatest success, Forbidden Games (1952), won the Golden Lion in Venice and the Academy Award. His reputation grew in the United States, where he worked with stars such as Jane Fonda for Joy House (1964), Charles Bronson for Rider on the Rain (1969), and Faye Dunaway for The Deadly Trap (1971). Clément remains the most awarded French filmmaker to date at the Cannes Film Festival, having received five prizes between 1946 and 1954.

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