This night on TV: essentially the most heartbreaking position of Romy Schneider – Actus Ciné

After getting observed with Les Grandes gueules and Boulevard du rhum, director Robert Enrico undoubtedly made his mark within the eyes of most of the people in 1976 with Le vieux fusil, winner of the very first César for Finest Movie.

Impressed by the bloodbath of Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, throughout which members of the first battalion of the Der Führe regiment murdered 642 civilians and set fireplace to the village, the movie interweaves scenes of relentless violence in flashback sequences, tender and delicate, on the comfortable moments of the couple fashioned by Philippe Noiret and Romy Schneider.

The efficiency of the latter, and the horrible destiny reserved for her character, deeply upset the French public. Some will see on this efficiency a need of the actress to exorcise a heavy household secret (her mom Magda Schneider being suspected of getting had a relationship with Goebbels, minister of Nazi propaganda). Others will discover proof, as soon as once more, that she gave herself physique and soul to her characters.

After The previous gun and its 3 million spectators – which makes it Romy Schneider’s largest business success – she’s going to shoot 4 different movies additionally having the Second World Warfare as a setting: The Prepare, A lady at her window, Group portrait with a woman and eventually, La Passante du Sans-Souci, his newest movie. With a mean viewer score of 4.2 out of 5, The previous gun (ex-aequo with Garde à vue) is the very best rated work of his filmography by Web customers AlloCiné.

The previous gun by Robert Enrico with Philippe Noiret, Romy Schneider, Jean Bouise…

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