Who is Robert Aldrich? Well known to film buffs, this is less evocative name for the general public, which was acclaimed in his time yet this American filmmaker whose films have some record-breaking admissions and deeply marked the collective memory. The best known in a large filmography - In fourth gear (1955), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), The Dirty Dozen (1967) - hide a host of other exciting works that the French Cinematheque had the good taste to throw at a full retrospective. Filmmaker
chameleon, each film reveals a little more richness of inspiration, Aldrich is above all a committed artist, whose films, such as punches, bombard a worldview devoid of filters. Unwilling to compromise, even to get fired from a studio (as was the case during the filming of The Garment Jungle, 1957), he was the pioneer in some way to film the young Turks of the New Cinema of the 70s will develop thereafter.
revolutionized the codes and conventions, addressing head-on disturbing subjects, taking advantage of the characters to turn ugly, grotesque, bad, bold, beautiful, helpless, Aldrich is primarily a filmmaker of the human, in all its complexity.
Having covered many genres, from westerns to war films, from intimate drama to the film, sports, crime fiction in the thriller peplum passing, Robert Aldrich also deeply loves the cinema, which it deals more or less directly in four major films: Grand knife (1955), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), The Demon women (1968) and Should we kill Sister George? (1968). We will focus on
latter poisoned gem, which deserves as is the case today for The Devil women republished in proper form.
June Buckridge, nicknamed "George", is the star of a TV series on British decline, which producers intend to get rid of causing the fatal accident of his character. George does not hear not that way and decided to fight to keep his role. Mature woman, she shares her life with the young "child", with which it maintains an uneasy relationship, marked by submission and masochism. Child support fewer crises of his mistress and his alcoholism and pervasive eventually leave the nest rather destructive.
descent into hell of an actress on the decline, plunged into the intimacy of a gay couple, the movie was shocked at its output and storage forty years later all his power of subversion. Rarely the subject of female homosexuality has been treated in a manner as moving and disturbing. By combining laughter to tears, Aldrich manages to give his characters a depth uncommon. Nothing less than a great movie to discover import DVD .
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