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THE CONSPIRACY |
INTERRIOR ROOMS, 6:30 pm CINEMA |
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• PORT OF SHADOWS (Quai des Brumes, Directed by Marcel Carné, Paris 1938 (95 minutes)
- “A French colonial army deserter who is hiding out in a port town, meets a girl who falls in love with him. He meets a band of gangsters (one of whom was the girl’s lover in the past) and some unbiased individuals, who generously try to help him. The ex-soldier kills the girl’s former chaperone after he tries to rape her. He is about to board a ship when he is killed by one of the gangsters. The ship leaves harbour… The influence of the Kammerspiel is quite obvious here. Destiny in the person of the painter and of a homeless man, the wickedness of the people (gangsters, officers, policemen, middle-class people) prevent the two young people who are deeply in love with each other from experiencing lasting joy in a “distant country”.(Dictionnaire des films, George Sadoul, Editions du Seuil, Paris 1965.) |
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• THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY, Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, USA 1955 (Italian title: The conspiracy of the Lambs) 91 min.
- “An elderly captain, a reckless girl and an abstract painter, each separately, find the body of a dead man in a secluded part of a wood. The man’s name is Harry, and he is wearing red socks. Each of the three buries the corpse in fear of being accused of murder. A doctor eventually finds out that the man has died of a natural death.” (Dictionnaire des films, G.Sadoul) - By now everyone should know that “Harry” is a code name for “art”. |
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