The Grand Maneuver [Region 2]
by René Clair
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Actor: Gérard Philipe, Jacques Fabbri, Jean Desailly, Michèle Morgan, Pierre DuxDirector: René Clair
Cinematographer: Robert Lefebvre
Producer: René Clair
Writer: René Clair
Editor: Denise Natot
Producer: André Daven
Writer: Jean Marsan
Writer: Jérôme Géronimi
DVD: Region Code 2
Audio: French (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Original Language)
Format: PAL
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Tf1 Video
Movie Reviews of The Grand Maneuver [Region 2]
Movie Review: A sublime dramatic comedy!
Summary: 5 Stars
Rene Clair was -if I may- the long expected French filmmaker, inheritor of a vast theatrical tradition (Beaumarchais, Rabelais and even Moliere) capable to convey, express and transcribe with such artistic freedom, those dynamics stages, double sense jokes, allusive proposals with such glamour, imaginative flight and sumptuous elegance.
Since the first shot (with the well opened objective in which we realize the march of priests, our protagonist leaving from the house of one of his favorites just when an officer crosses the street and almost captures in the act.
Clair constructs since these basic premises, a formidable tour de force script, in which we assist to a weird bet; in which Armand La Verne will have to get the favors o an unknown lady, once her ticket number 34 be announced.
Of course this is a dramatic comedy, in which the ambitious script will explore with zealous detail, minuscule and representative insights, those little and unsaid sins backstage, the visible complicity among the members of the military statement, the hopes and reams of those women of light skulls and obviously the acidic comments of the women of the high society.
Once the bet is done, the destiny will appear and will make a tragic shift for this handsome and irresistible Lieutenant when he really falls in love with a divorced and very alluring Parisian woman - Michelle Morgan - who eventually will correspond him, until ...
Gerard Phillipe, a first rate cast, a solid and smart script, delirious stages and a kinetic direction will involve you from star to end in this outstanding classic
A must-see. Another brilliant gem from the French answer to Fellini: the unique and irreplaceable Rene Clair, one of the top ten French filmmakers ever born.
Summary of The Grand Maneuver [Region 2]
United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Biographies, Documentary, Filmographies, Interactive Menu, Photo Gallery, Scene Access, Short Film, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Rene Clair's Grand Maneuver was originally titled Les Grandes Manoeuvres, which should surprise no one. Gerard Phillipe plays a dashing dragoons officer, vintage 1913, who wagers his friends that he can make the next woman who enters the room fall in love with him. In strides drop-dead gorgeous Michele Morgan, and the rest writes itself. Phillipe plans a slow seduction and a quick goodbye; Morgan, need we say, is no "goodbye girl." For all its lavish sets and meticulously detailed period costumers, Grand Maneuver is at base the old American farce Sailor Beware with a French accent. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: David Donatello Awards, ...Les Grandes manoeuvres ( Grandi manovre ) ( Summer Manoeuvres )Similar DVD Movies
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