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The Killing of Sister George




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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Psycho: the original copy




The idea seemed ridiculous at first. Making a remake of a classic horror Psycho (1960), a film now regarded as one of the highlights of its author, Alfred Hitchcock. A perfect work, as one speaks of a perfect crime, in which each element has its place: music, acting, directing, editing. Hitchcock had fulfilled its goal was to make a good film with a small budget and would mark deeply the public.

So why remake Psycho * in 1998?

This crazy idea has germinated in the mind of Gus Van Sant, a great admirer of the film. His goal was to make it known to a younger generation of viewers, allergic to black and white, and for whom the name of Hitchcock said nothing at all. In part a tribute to filmmaker overweight, partly stylistic exercise, the purpose of this remake was not to supplant the original but just update it. Cutting, music, dialogues were held. Sumptuous black and white John L. Russell, one passes to the color of Christopher Doyle. Vince Vaughn replaces Anthony Perkins in the role of Norman Bates, Anne Heche plays Marion Crane Julianne Moore and her sister Lila.

Object curiosity, Psycho new is made to be shown in a museum next to the original. We then devote himself with delight at the performance of the comparison, noting the discrepancies, the differences. Van Sant enjoys pushing himself to the fidelity to the original by incorporating the false connections and other errors in the 1960 film. It also adds a dialogue too daring for its time, but can incorporate brand "Copyright". And that's where we can afford to doubt his choice include an example the opening scene, when Marion and her lover Sam Loomis (Viggo Mortensen) discuss in their hotel room, while the refers to the antics of a couple in the adjacent room. This adds nothing to the story. Worse, when Norman Bates Marion Crane spy through the hole in his office, he masturbated, which was not the case in the original. Explicit what was only suggested, that the well through our time.

Other choices posed question in the famous shower scene, Van Sant music starts later, and add shots of clouds (The leitmotif of the filmmaker). In the scene of the murder of private detective Arbogast, he adds a few shots short unrelated to the scene. A way like another to seize the material and to legitimize the exercise, in this case quite sterile at creative?

Maybe.

It is clear that the comparison is not favorable to the remake. The actors' performance is well below the original. This is especially true of Vince Vaughn, whose playing support does not leave much doubt about the sanity of her character. The use of color brings an overflow of information and Apart from some technical improvements, additions to this new version are irrelevant.

So bad idea from the start? Quite possible. Why not be reissued by the original restoration worthy of the name, as was the case for Vertigo? If Psycho of 1998 has not drained the crowds (unlike his predecessor), mostly because today's teens are rather fond of films much more gore in the Saw kind and Other Hostel. And the slow pace, typical of a film of the 60s, could only disappoint them. Without

mention the fact that seeing the remake can only ruin the element of surprise for those who want to discover the original.

is obviously the Hitchcock movie that will be remembered, and that ersatz join the cabinet of curiosities, with other freaks of a feather ...

Excerpts:

The original shower scene

The same scene in the remake

* Proposed August 2, 2009 at the French Cinematheque in Paris.