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Sunset Boulevard

Sunset Boulevard (VOSTF)
Location
Main screening room
Date
August 4th, 2022
Duration
110 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!

Sunset Boulevard
Directed by
Billy Wilder
Language
English with French subtitles
Actors
William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim
Origins
USA
Year
1950
Duration
110 min
Genre
Drama
Format
Digital
Synopsis

A great silent film actress hires a broke screenwriter to write a script that will mark her return to the screen. Under the eye of her ex-husband, who has become her butler, he becomes her lover.

Sunset Boulevard
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Billy Wilder

Samuel Wilder, known as Billy Wilder, is an American director, producer and screenwriter of black films and comedies, born June 22, 1906 in Sucha and died March 27, 2002 in Beverly Hills, California, United States. Billy Wilder is one of the most important figures of American cinema of the twentieth century, especially of the 1950s and 1960s. Four of his films are included in the Top 100 of the American Film Institute, as are Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick . He has directed fourteen different actors who have been nominated for their Oscar performance. In the ranking of Sight & Sound magazine, he is in seventh place for the greatest directors. Billy Wilder received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1986, awarded by the American Film Institute once a year to an actor or director who has achieved an outstanding career.

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One of the most original and fascinating films in the history of cinema. With an unparalleled power of fascination, Wilder and Bracket's masterpiece slowly distills a troubled and decaying atmosphere that constantly confuses illusion and reality.
Guy Bellinger, 1992
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