Parisian love
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Parisian love |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | Subheads in English |
| Publishing year | 1925 |
| length | 7 acts, 1927 ½ meters, at 22 fps 77 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Louis J. Gasnier |
| script | Lois Hutchinson after F.Oakley Crawford |
| production | BPSchulberg |
| camera | Allen G. Siegler |
| occupation | |
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Parisian Love is the title of a silent crime drama directed by Louis J. Gasnier in 1925 for BP Schulbergs Preferred Pictures, based on a script written by Lois Hutchinson based on F. Oakley Crawford , starring Clara Bow and Donald Keith.
action
The two Parisian Apaches Armand and Marie are in love. Marie persuades Armand and other gang members to rob the wealthy scientist Pierre Marcel from his home. The police intervene, but Marcel hides Armand from her after he stopped a gang member from stabbing him and was wounded in the process. He takes him in and takes care of him.
When Armand is well again, Marcel introduces him to urban society and introduces him to several women, to which Armand has no objection. Marie is jealous of the women and swears to take revenge on Marcel. They meet and fall in love with each other. While Armand is in London, they get married. On her wedding night, Marie tells Marcel that she belongs to the Apaches. Now her vengeance is complete and she can return to Armand's arms. Another Apache, also in love with Marie, wounds her with a shot from a rifle.
background
The film, a production by Budd P. Schulberg Productions Ltd. was photographed by Allen G. Siegler . It was premiered in the USA on August 1, 1925, and in Great Britain on January 7, 1926. In Europe, it also ran in Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Portugal. It has also been shown overseas in Brazil and Japan. In Germany he received the title "Lu, the Parisian Apache girl".
reception
“In her pre-Paramount days, Clara Bow was shoved into some pretty dismal pictures. This aimless drama was one of the worst. "(Janiss Garza)
The intimacy in the scenes in which Pierre Marcel takes the injured Armand in and takes care of his wounds was interpreted by critics as an expression of homosexuality .
A version restored by the UCLA archive was released on DVD by Kino Lorber in 2002.
Web links
Parisian Love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Parisian Love at silentera.com (english)
- Article by David Cairns at mubi.com (06 Feb 2014)
- Article by Janiss Garza at allemovie.com
Illustrations
- Cinema poster 1925.
- Stand photo with Clara Bow and Lou Tellegen.
Watch the film on youtube (with spanish subtitles)
literature
- Jeanine Basinger: Silent Stars. New edition. Wesleyan University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-8195-6451-6 , p. 431.
- Dennis Henkel: Silent Craving: Addiction and Drugs in Silent Films (1890-1931). Kassel University Press, 2019, ISBN 978-3-7376-0618-9 , pp. 176, 230, 236.
- Martin Poltrum, Bernd Rieken, Thomas Ballhausen (eds.): Gamblers, drug freaks & drunkards: Intoxication, ecstasy and addiction in film and series. Springer-Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-662-57377-8 , p. 5, no. 56.
- Klaus Schüle: Paris, the cultural construction of the French metropolis: everyday life, mental space and socio-cultural field in the city and in the suburbs. Springer-Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-8100-3581-5 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ on the term cf. Schüle pp. 63–69.
- ↑ cf. IMDb / release info
- ↑ cf. David Cairns: “What we seem to have here is a glaring example of the beard, the female character introduced merely as an alibi of heterosexuality for two male leads. And indeed, Gasnier's two leading men seem quite into each other, and their intimate scenes are played for all the Wildean undercurrents they can muster. Is this what they mean by "Parisian Love"? "
- ↑ cf. kinolorber.com