Casque D'Or details
| Formats: | PG DVD, Blu-ray |
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| Starring: | Simone Signoret, Claude Dauphin, Serge Reggiani |
| Director: | Jacques Becker |
| Genres: | Drama - Crime, Romance, World Cinema - French |
| Studio: | ELEVATION |
| Name | Discs | |
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Casque D'Or |
PG Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 33 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 13 Aug 2007 |
| Main languages: | French |
| Subtitles: | English |
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Casque d'Or ..... Classic French Cinema
By a customer from The Borders, Northumberland , 07 Sep 2007[Highly rated reviewer]
A film by Jacques Becker set in the Paris of the Impressionists with strong reminders of early Renoir paintings.
Slow moving by today's standards, but this film is evocative of the period and reflects in a most sensitive way the balance between aspects of human nature built around jealousy over an attractive woman. Concerned with the Paris underworld and an ill starred romance leading to murder and the consequent execution, this film is a minor masterpiece.
Signoret is superb as the voluptuous Golden Marie, whilst Serge Reggiani gives a remarkable performance as the honest carpenter who becomes the target of both Marie and the Gang Leader with inevitable consequences.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(12)Love and Passion - French style.
By allykat (75 reviews) from Weymouth , 20 Aug 2011This classic of French cinema is a visual treat. Simone Signoret is fabulously beautiful and illuminates the screen. The black and white filming is crisp and deep and the settings and background characters convincingly full of authenticity. So very French. This is no Hollywood version.
Serge Reggiani has a likeable, gentle face and is perfectly cast as Manda, the reformed criminal who only wants to be a carpenter and put his former life behind him, but his old prison pal, Raymond, introduces him to his gang at an innocent looking tea-dance boat party. The leader of the gang's beautiful, captive girlfriend immediately falls for Manda and the trouble begins. Some unique moments - eating cheese from a flick knife - finding her pom pom slippers in the gangster's bedroom - the spy hole in the horse-drawn prison carriage - a successful rescue by the heroine who hurls her full-petticoated self upon the armed police!
The tragedy is reminiscent of the work of Alexander Dumas and the conclusion has a touch of La Reine Margot. Its plot is carefully constructed and the message that we are all the architects of our own destruction, even when in the right or acting out of love, echoes his philosophy.
Don't believe any other reviewers who may not understand French cinema or literature. Pour yourself a glass of French wine, put your feet up and enjoy a great, unforgettable film.- Was this review helpful to you?
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What a dissapontment
By a customer , 11 Aug 2011I watched this movie based in the reviews but I was disappointed. The story was very weak and I expected to see like a period drama but it takes place like it looks like a small village.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Weird, but wonderful
By a customer from East London , 21 Jul 2010This black & white, French film is astonishingly modern, and is full of surprises. Just watch it with an open mind!- Was this review helpful to you?
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Near Perfection.
By Nigel Wilson from Helmsley, North Riding of Yorkshire. , 31 May 2009Near Perfection.
A beautiful film; a model film. A chilling threat of underlying disaster runs through almost from the beginning, but the characters are cut from something a good deal thicker than cardboard ... Simone Signore’s glorious touch of animal vulgarity; Serge Reggiani’s appealing honest decency ... Raymond Bussières similarly ... Claude Dauphin’s ruthless duplicity ... each of these has a personal reality which goes a good deal deeper than routine crime-film-story-telling. The fin de siècle and campagne settings have convincing, direct, detailed reality. This is no costume drama; it takes you back to past actuality ... so unemphatically presented that it shows up the vapid mis-direction that we generally get, alas, nowadays in over blown, wide screen, colour, 3D - etc. - filming, which seems almost routinely to drop and lose its films in technology and their self importance.
I found that I had tears in my eyes at the end: I wonder if they would have been there if I had been treated to all the gruesome – distracting - physical detail of killing that we permitted to wallow in nowadays? simply seeing Simone Signoret looking out of a window was far more moving ...
I still long for French sub-titles, however: too much of the dialogue slips past me!- Was this review helpful to you?
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Thugs and romance in the old style
By Picaro (68 reviews) from Bangor , 28 Mar 2009Acclaimed largely on account of the star, Simone Signoret. The gang of thieves, and the small Paris café in which they meet, are thoroughly stylised and the story unrealistic, but the black & white photography dramatic, with a lyrical contrast in the country setting to which the star and her brave lover escape. The music accompaniment is pleasingly dated.- Was this review helpful to you?
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