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Montparnasse 19 (French version)
Location
Main screening room
Date
August 23rd, 2022
Duration
108 min
Cycle
The essentials

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Montparnasse 19
Directed by
Jacques Becker
Language
French version
Actors
Gérard Philipe, Anouk Aimée, Lilli Palmer, Lino Ventura
Origins
France, Italy
Year
1958
Duration
108 min
Genre
Drama, biography
Format
16 mm
Synopsis

The last moments of the painter Modigliani, in the artistic effervescence of Montparnasse on the eve of the 1920s. In spite of alcohol, misery and decay, Jeanne, his last companion, loves and supports him.

Montparnasse 19

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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