Alain Jérôme
2021Le rebelle
Gérard Blain
Patrick Norbert, Michel Subor
After the death of his parents, Pierre is forced to care for his younger sister Nathalie by committing petty crimes. In a recurring motif of Gérard Blain’s cinema, Pierre is taken under the wing of an older gay man, Hubert , who offers him work and financial security; but when Hubert makes advances to him, Pierre robs him and takes up with a group of radical leftists who are planning terrorist attacks. Without employment, Pierre loses Nathalie to child services and spirals into desperation, finally erupting in an act of horrific violence. An x-ray showing the largely undiagnosed sickness of its time, and a stern warning to ours.
The Rebel
Papy fait de la résistance
Jean-Marie Poiré
Christian Clavier, Michel Galabru
It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!
Gramps Is in the Resistance
Les dossiers de l'écran: La 1ère guerre mondiale
Francis Caillaud
Alain Jérôme
French television panel discussion with German and French veterans of World War I, conducted after the viewing of G. W. Pabst's 1930 film WESTFRONT 1918.
Les dossiers de l'écran: La 1ère guerre mondiale