CRITICISM – By adapting the third volume of the novelist’s childhood memories, the director of Choristers completes the diptych signed thirty-two years ago by Yves Robert. And follows in his footsteps with humility and fidelity. The cart plods along, fully loaded under the July sun. Leaving the streets of Marseilles, it rattles along the stony […]
Tag: Marcel Pagnol
The Eye of INA: Marcel Pagnol, pioneer of talkies
The 7th art was very important in the life of the great Provençal writer. His declaration of love for the cinema is at the heart of a Big plan made in 1960 by Pierre Cardinal that Madelen invites you to (re)discover. At the end of the 1950s, an article on his childhood memories in a […]
Marseille and the South dream of Hollywood
INVESTIGATION – Despite the local bickering, the film industry is getting ready for battle to establish itself from 2024 as a global filming center, like London, Paris and Los Angeles. It was last spring. Costa-Gavras, president of the Cinémathèque française, telephones Robert Guédiguian and Ariane Ascaride. “He had the idea of creating a Marseille branch […]
Death of Jean Panisse, actor with the formidable Marseillaise spirit
The actor, born in Marseille in 1928, died of Covid-19 at the age of 92 on the night of December 31 to January 1. It had been discovered by Marcel Pagnol in 1952. It was enough to listen to his beautiful accent of Marseille to think that we were walking on the Canebière or in […]