“Army in the Shadows”, Lino Ventura, Jean-Pierre Cassel and other wonderful things

[alexandral]

+Army in the Shadows: I watched it on Tuesday in “Bradford National museum of film and television”. I think that it is a truly outstanding film. Made by the famous French director Jean-Pierre Melville, it has many amazing actors in the cast. Film tells the story of the French Resistance during the Second World War. The story is given in all it’s truth of day-to-day work, terror, betrayal and many hard decisions. It is definitely the best film I have seen about the French Resistance.

It is one of the films where it is difficult to tell which actor made the biggest impact. They all are absolutely awesome. If I must choose, I would say that Lino Ventura (playing the main character Philippe Gerbier) and Jean-Pierre Cassel (Jean François Jardie).

+Lino Ventura has terrific screen presence. He is all authority and can be called burly. Well, I think he is burly.




+Jean-Pierre Cassel is the father of one of my current favourites , Vincent Cassel. Jean-Pierre Cassel is just soooooooo attractive.



+Earth and Fire: I am getting both of these wonderful films from Blockbuster on-line. May be they are already at home! Yay!!!!!!!! I am really really excited about watching these films. I have heard so much about they recently! Yay again!!!!

I also realised that Earth/Fire/Water thrilogy’s director is Deepa Mentha. I saw her absolutely adorable film “Bollywood/Hollywood”. YAY!!!
This is why I used this icon. I am not sure yet if it is finished, but !!!!!!!

+Prison Break: Michael and Sara had the hottest stare session in the human history. And then he said something along the lines “It breaks my heart that I know after everything I have done you are not going to trust me ever”. My heart is broken.

+Great weather Weather is absolutely wonderful today. The warmest day of the year. I am going to put my new summer shoes (three pairs acquired during the last month)

+Meme realtanala tagged me with "My 5 weird habbits" meme. Here they are,

1) I don’t like mornings. I sleep until the last minute possible

2) I like to stay late at night.

3) I love spoilers. I always look at the books (or films) ending if I can. I don’t like it if I can’t. Because I can’t cope with getting in vested in some character (or relationship) and realise suddenly that he is the mother-killer. I coped very badly with BSG developments. Thank you queenofthornes and syliasyliasylia who in their different ways helped me through it.

4) I own too many clothes.

5) I like new things and forget old things. I am sorry!

Comments

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

I like Monica Bellucci, she is so beautiful and unusual and a great actress! I realised they were married recently, when I was reading Jean-Paul Cassel's bio. When I saw "Army in the Shadows" I kept thinking - I saw this guy before.. Where? And when I read his biography I was for some reason so happy that he is Vincent's father!

I haven't realised Vincent is in the "Oceans Twelve". I have seen "Oceans Eleven" and was not very impressed because similar you say I was rooting for Andy Garcia for I found Danny Ocean to be a little boring. I must watch "Oceans Twelve" (Adding to the Blockbuster on-line list. Adding all the rest of films with Vincent too. SQQEEEE!)

...I like him a lot. can you tell EEE! I like him a lot too, and I am really really thankful for all this recs!

[hestia8.livejournal.com]

I love Monica Bellucci, she's gorgeous. And there's a bit of extra squee watching their films and going 'oh, they're married!'. Or I'm just abbit odd ;)

The Ocean films aren't that amazing but Vicnent looks wonderful in O12, and there's a great scene in a museum with him dancing, and some scenes where he is doing yoga and is shirtless...

we tend to fast forward through the bits he isn't in ;)

Glad to be of help! He is my absolute favourite actor and I could just watch him in anything (a note of caution, though - he and Monica are in a film called Irreversible where basically Monica's character gets raped and Vincent and a friend go looking for revenge - it's a very, very difficult film to watch so I'd avoid unless you have a very strong stomach).

I'll let you know if I remember any of his other films (I haven't seen Derailed but he's in that) *g*

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

And there's a bit of extra squee watching their films and going 'oh, they're married!'. Or I'm just abbit odd ;)

I am like that too, I don't know if I am right, but I feel sometimes that you can tell when actor and actress have an attraction in RL , and nor just on a screen. It creates a wonderful chemistry. :)

great scene in a museum with him dancing, and some scenes where he is doing yoga and is shirtless...

Sounds really yummy!!!

we tend to fast forward through the bits he isn't in

I know what you mean - I do it with mu favourite scenes often. DVD is great for finding a necessary scene! ( I remember what a pain it used to be with Video).

he and Monica are in a film called Irreversible where basically Monica's character gets raped and Vincent and a friend go looking for revenge - it's a very, very difficult film to watch so I'd avoid unless you have a very strong stomach).

I find films of this kind quite hard to watch... :(

And thank you so much again!!!!!!!

[hestia8.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean - I do it with mu favourite scenes often. DVD is great for finding a necessary scene!

Oh, yes. One of the many reasons I love DVDs :) Especially with Ocean's 12.

I found Irreversible really hard to watch - I watched it partly because it was them and partly because I'd read interviews they'd done about it, but yeah. Never watching it again, put it that way.

And thank you so much again!!!!!!!

No problem. Got to do what I can to spread the Cassel-love *g*

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

I found Irreversible really hard to watch - I watched it partly because it was them and partly because I'd read interviews they'd done about it, but yeah. Never watching it again, put it that way.

I know what you mean, some films just break my heart and even if I liked them very much I find it difficult to re-watch.