Interview by Armand Panigel of Marcel Carné who evokes his beginnings in the cinema and returns to the circumstances of the shooting of his first film "Jenny" adapted from a melody "La prison de velours" Louis Ribaud, after having been assistant director on four films with Jacques Feyder as well as with René Clair. This first film also marks the beginning of his collaboration with Jacques Prévert, to whom he entrusted the adaptation and the script of the film.
Report on the shooting of Marcel Carné’s new film "Du mouron pour les petits oiseaux" adapted from the eponymous detective novel by Albert Simonin with Jean Richard, Suzie Delair, Paul Meurisse and Suzanne Gabriello. Discovery of the set of the film, the Place de la Contrescarpe in Paris, reconstituted in the studios of Epinay. Commentary on factual images of the filming of the film and preparations for the makeup of the actress Suzanne Gabriello.
Report. Interview with Marcel Carné on the filming of his film "Trois chambres à Manhattan", a love story bringing together in New York François, a French actor interpreted by Maurice Ronet and Kay, a young woman who has just left her husband, interpreted by Annie Girardot. Marcel Carné evokes his two main actors: Annie Girardot and Maurice Ronet, actors . he considers the best French actress of his generation. Maurice Ronet and then Annie Girardot evoke their respective characters.
Meeting with filmmaker Marcel Carné and actor Roland Lesaffre in Limousin. An interview with Marcel Carné about his friendship with actor Roland Lesaffre, whom he describes as "spiritual son" while Roland Lesaffre evokes the tribute paid by François Truffaut to Marcel Carné with his film "The Last Metro".
Report on the shooting in Marseille and AIx in Provence of the film of Marcel CARNE "Les assassins de l'ordre" produced by the former actor Michel Ardan with the singer Jacques BREL playing the role of an investigating judge fighting against injustice.
Interview with filmmaker Marcel CARNE about his film "Terrain vague" addressing the issue of gangs of young people from poor milieur living in low-income housing in the Parisian suburbs and their hobbies. He has just learned that the ban on his film at least 18 years old has been lifted.
Interview with Marcel CARNE who recounts the circumstances of his meeting with Jacques Prévert and the beginnings of his collaboration with the poet to whom he proposed to write the dialogues of his film "Prison de velours". This was the beginning of a 12-year collaboration in which they never fought. Carné evokes their work on "Les portes de la nuit", his commercial failure and the gut of Yves Montand’s songs: "Les Feuilles mortes" and "Les enfants qui s'aime" as well as the shock he just had when he learned of the poet’s death.
Armand PANIGEL talks with the main protagonists of Marcel Carné’s film "Drôle de drame" shot in the studios of Joinville. Interviews with Marcel CARNE and the actors Michel SIMON, Jean Louis BARRAULT, Arletty and Jean Pierre AUMONT, about the shooting and the failure of this film: for Jean Louis Barrault, it stems from his avant-garde character.
Report on the shooting of Marcel Carné’s new film, "Trois chambres à Manhattan" adapted from a novel by Georges Simenon with the actors Annie Girardot and Maurice Ronet taking place in New York. Interview with Marcel Carné on the history of the film alternating with shooting scenes of the film.
Report. Long walk in the Paris of childhood and youth of the filmmaker Marcel CARNE who grew up in the district of Batignolles where he already organized cinema sessions for his comrades at his grandmother’s house. Child of the 17th district we follow him in this square of Batignolles that he frequented assiduously and without knowing it he played with the little Pierre BRASSEUR.
Report. Interview in Cannes with Marcel JULLIAN about the film by Marcel Carné co-produced by Antenne 2, "La Bible "presented out of competition as part of the Cannes Fesival then interview with the filmmaker Marcel Carné: explains how he came up with the idea of shooting this film, called lyrical drama or oratorio by -Marcel Carné-, by filming the frescoes of the cathedral Santa Maria Nuove in Monreale in Italy. The interview is enamelled with images of the cathedral and its frescoes.
Mario Beunat talks with filmmaker Marcel Carné about the theme of his latest film, the popular youth from the suburbs and low-income housing and the poster of the film directed by Bernard Buffet following his discovery of the film he loved very much. The film addresses the problem of youth gangs, does his film propose a solution to the problems they pose?
The actress Françoise Rosay evokes the film "La kermesse héroïque" directed by her husband Jacques Feyder with as assistant director Marcel Carné. She tells the story of how she met the young apprentice filmmaker Marcel Carné through her home-based hairdresser.
Interview with actress Simone Signoret at home. She evokes the highlights of her acting career and the directors who marked her. Notably Marcel Carné, with whom she shot "Thérèse Raquin" as well as the circumstances of her representation during the shooting in 1942 of the film "Les Visiteurs du soir". On this occasion, she evokes the two facets of the filmmaker: the pre-lunch Carné, which is interested in the well-being of its actors and the post-lunch Carné, that is to say the Carné, director and passionate about his job.
Marcel Carné talks about the shooting conditions of the movie "Le Pays d'où je viens" with the singer Gilbert Bécaud whose first film. It evokes the problems of punctuality of the singer, who also used his camera on the shooting of the film. Shooting anecdotes told with humour by Marcel Carné and Gilbert Bécaud.
Report on the shooting of Marcel Carné’s new film, "Les Assassins de l'ordre", adaptation of a book by Louis Laborde published in 1954, with Jacques BREL . He talks about the death of a man after being arrested and beaten by police officers in a police station. Is it the result of the beating or is it another cause, is it a state of mind or a bad sheep in the police? An investigating judge is in charge of the case, it is interpreted by Jacques Brel and subjected to pressure while the commissioner is interpreted by Michael Lonsdale. Commentary of Marcel Carné on the history of the film on factual images of scenes of shooting of the film. Michel LONSDALE during the shooting.
Interview in Deauville with French director Marcel Carné about the Awards that have rewarded his films. He also mentions the poor reception of some of his films when they were released, such as "The Day Rises", the way he manages criticism and his relationship with young directors.
Interview at home with the French actress Arletty. She evokes Marcel Carné and his character of Dominique in the film "Les Visiteurs du soir" for which she was chosen by Jacques Prévert, which allowed him to change his "label" and his most beautiful role, that of Garance in "Les enfants du paradis"..
Report in Martinique where the director Marcel Carné in shooting for a short film and the producer Jacques Quintard are about to realize a show of sounds and travelling images in multicast using slides retracing the history of Martinique.
Pierre Tchernia talks with theatre and cinema decorator Georges Wakhevitch and invites him to express himself on the sets of the film "Les visiteurs du soir" by Marcel Carné shot in 1942 in a castle of the Middle White Age. The decorator looks back on his collaboration with Marcel Carné and Jacques Prévert on this film.
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