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Catherine Deneuve in UN FLIC Screens at The Classic French Film Festival This Friday
The Classic French Film Festival celebrates St. Louis’ Gallic heritage and France’s cinematic legacy. The featured films span the decades from the 1920s through the 1980s (with a particular focus on filmmakers from the New Wave), offering a comprehensive overview of French cinema. UN FLIC will screen as part of the festival at 7pm Sunday, June 27th at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium
In UN FLIC piano-playing Edouard (Alain Delon) and nightclub owner Simon (Richard Crenna of “Wait Until Dark” and “Body Heat”) both love Kathy (Catherine Deneuve). If that’s not trouble enough, Edouard’s a post-burnout cop and Simon’s bent on the heist of a lifetime, and they seem to be looking past Kathy at each other. Jean-Pierre Melville’s final work features iconic performances from the star trio – a never more jadedly detached Delon, a never more chillingly icy Deneuve, and a surprisingly effective, smilingly insinuating Crenna. The film features two trademark Melville heists: the first a near-wordless bank job on a deserted, bleakly rain-sodden seaside street; the second a nerve-shredding, timed-to-the-second drug snatch done via helicopter-to-train transfer.
Former Village Voice critic J. Hoberman writes of the director: “The high priest of tough-guy mysticism and master of the attitudinous gangster thriller, Melville not only anticipated the French new wave but served as a model for the neo new wave of Jim Jarmusch, Quentin Tarantino and Wong Kar-wai.” And Time Out New York observes: “With barely a word spoken between them – mostly a series of virile glances – Delon and Crenna paint an idealized portrait of masculine camaraderie, one that’s exposed at the end of Melville’s bracing last testament as a soul-shattering illusion.”
UN FLIC will screen at 7pm Sunday, June 27th at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (Winifred Moore Auditorium in Webster Hall – 470 E Lockwood Ave – Webster Groves, MO 63119)
With an introduction and post-film discussion by Diane Carson, professor emeritus of film at St. Louis Community College at Meramec and adjunct professor of film studies at Webster University.
Admission: $12 general admission; $10 for students, Cinema St. Louis members, Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) members, and Alliance Française members; Webster U. screenings free for Webster U. students.
A PDF version of the Classic French Film Festival program is available to download HERE:
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