The ladies from the Bois de Boulogne
| Movie | |
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| German title | The ladies from the Bois de Boulogne |
| Original title | Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1945 |
| length | 78 minutes |
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| Director | Robert Bresson |
| script | Robert Bresson Dialogues Jean Cocteau |
| production | Raoul Ploquin |
| music | Jean-Jacques Grunenwald |
| camera | Philippe Agostini |
| cut | Jean Feyte |
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The ladies from the Bois de Boulogne (original title: Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne ) is a French film from 1945 . Directed by Robert Bresson . The film is based on a completed narrative in Diderot's novel Jacques the Fatalist and His Master .
action
Hélène has a relationship with Jean that she is downright obsessed with. When she learns from a friend that Jean's love for her has cooled and that he is bored with her, she separates from him - ostensibly on a good note. However, she secretly seeks revenge and tries to set a trap for him: She offers the impoverished dancer Agnès, who comes from a good family and who has to earn a living as a prostitute, money to seduce Jean. She dresses them up, provides them with a nice apartment and money, and then introduces them to Jean. Hélène's goal is to compromise Jean by marrying a prostitute. Jean falls in love with the young woman, but knows nothing of her past and wants to marry her. It is only during the wedding with Agnès that Jean and Hélène's guests learn the truth about the bride's history. Jean leaves the wedding party, the guests are shocked and Hélène triumphs. Agnès falls to the floor, unconscious. During his wandering, Jean realizes his love for Agnès and he returns to her.
criticism
"The adaptation, which endeavors to achieve realistic staging and psychologizing dramaturgy, anticipates Robert Bresson's later refined art of suggestion in formal terms."
"So the work is already characterized by a naturalistic way of staging and a psychologizing dramaturgy, which formally points to the art of radical reduction to the essentials, of disclosures and hints ahead, which Bresson later refined."
literature
- Colin Burnett: Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne: DVD Review . In: Off Screen. Volume 8, Issue 3, March 2004. Film adaptation of the literature
- Patrick Saveau: L'Épisode de Madame de La Pommeraye et Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne à la lumière de la Dialectique du Maître et de l'Esclave de Hegel . In: Les Lettres Romanes. Brepols Publishers pp. 49-55 [1]
Web links
- The ladies from the Bois de Boulogne in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Review on Prisma.de
- Les dames du Bois du Boulogne, the Earrings of Robert Bresson
- Wheeler Winston Dixon: The Power of Resistance: Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (detailed film analysis)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 7, 2017 .
- ^ A literary adaptation of The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne