Edith und Marcel (1983)
5KEdith und Marcel: Directed by Claude Lelouch. With Evelyne Bouix, Jacques Villeret, Francis Huster, Jean-Claude Brialy. The world’s most popular entertainer and Europe’s greatest boxer: the film puts the love affair of these two national heroes against a backdrop of the end of World War II, hotel suites in New York, transatlantic plane flights, Cerdan’s loss of the world middleweight title to Jake Lamotta, and Piaf’s gift for tragic love songs.
“At first sight, Lelouch is a pretentious character making stupid movies but, hopefully, there is a film starting from which you fell in love with the man and his way of filming, this film might be u0026quot;un homme et une femmeu0026quot;, u0026quot;tout ca pour cau0026quot; or u0026quot;les uns et les autresu0026quot; but it can as well be this one. Lelouch takes the story in the most anti-Hollywood way as possible. We are quite far from the films which try to recall the legends of the great human beings and to explain their great geniuses with great sounds and filming effects. Lelouch makes a film as realistic as a movie can be. Of course, Lelouch proposes an agreement, you accept is naive-concrete way of doing things and he will take you back to the 40u0026#39;s and, you will met both Cerdan and Piaf. The film is an invitation that you wish never to finish. The actors are simply incredible, Evelyne Bouix never acted so good, Jean Bouise is, as always, fantastic etc. Certainly, the suicide of Dewaere influenced Lelouch so to make a masterpiece and he did it.”
