Thanks Jill, though I was unprepared for the excellent directorial
treatment of the weather and don't think I did it justice in my text. In
fact, I had to drive and then walk through wind & rain in order to see the
film, arrived a bit after it had started and amidst a cinematic squall, &
misremembered the title and started writing "STORMY WEATHER". If I see the
film again, I might try to "translate" the extraordinary sounds of the
storms. Barry
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 23:17:12 GMT, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Hi Barry,
>
>I liked the weather in this. The situation is serious.
>
>And the quote from Gabin.
>
>Cheers,
>Jill
>
>> STORMY WATERS [REMORQUES]
>>
>> [via Jean Gremillon & Jacques Prevert]
>> [“Just catastrophe’s office boy.”--Jean Gabin]
>>
>>
>> Stop playing the fool--there’s an S.O.S.
>> The weather’s taking its revenge.
>> Only joking—-one shouldn’t . . .
>> ride, report, resign.
>> Must hook that bastard.
>> You . . . the situation is serious.
>>
>> We don’t ask for much.
>> Anyhow, you’re wasting your time with me;
>> the Dutchman hooked her.
>> Eat. He said no!
>> Remember, the
>> storm brought me: S.O.S.
>>
>>
>> Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 11-2-05 (4:34 pm)
>>
>>
>> Written during my first viewing of this 1941 film, part of a series
>“Frenc> h
>> Cinema Under The Occupation” curated by the French director Bertrand
>> Tavernier. Jean Gabin stars as the captain of an ocean-going tugboat
based
>>
>> in Brittany, though he really shares top billing with the visual and
>> auditory presence of the climatic forces brilliantly rendered by
Gremillon.
>auditory presence of the climatic forces brilliantly rendered by Gremillon.
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