A Generation Passing Away
Apr. 15th, 2018 12:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloTwo giants of European cinema have recently died.
Stephane Audran was magisterial. She had poise, she had authority, she had class- and she starred in some of the great movies of the 60s and 70s- including Chabrol's le Boucher and Bunuel's career-redefining masterpiece The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.
Milos Forman made a number of Hollywood classics- including One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus- but the smaller, regime-bothering films he made as a young gun in Czechoslovakia may have been even better. I have particularly fond memory of The Fireman's Ball- a satire on the sort of people who like wearing uniform- which is like a Mid-European Dad's Army but with cinematic values.
Stephane Audran was magisterial. She had poise, she had authority, she had class- and she starred in some of the great movies of the 60s and 70s- including Chabrol's le Boucher and Bunuel's career-redefining masterpiece The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.
Milos Forman made a number of Hollywood classics- including One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus- but the smaller, regime-bothering films he made as a young gun in Czechoslovakia may have been even better. I have particularly fond memory of The Fireman's Ball- a satire on the sort of people who like wearing uniform- which is like a Mid-European Dad's Army but with cinematic values.
