![]() ![]() After a few rounds of voting, the winner is revealed to be a candidate who was not even in the running, a stunned Cardinal Melville (surely Moretti's tip of the hat to iconic French director Jean-Pierre Melville), played by veteran French star Michel Piccoli. Nathalie Delon lors du tournage du film Le Samouraï réalisé par Jean-Pierre Melville en juin 1967 à Paris, France. ![]() Moretti goes to great lengths to represent this ritual gathering with great accuracy, but injecting an escalating number of comic moments as the film traverses from the ceremonial pomp of its opening scenes to take on a lighter tone.Īs if the voting for a pope were an elementary school spelling test, the prelates cross out names on their ballots, look to heaven for guidance, and even cheat, some slyly spying on what a neighbor seated to the left or right is writing. Alain Delon, Richard Crenna et le réalisateur Jean-Pierre Melville sur le tournage du film Un Flic en novembre 1971 à Paris, France. In "We Have a Pope," the funeral of a dead pope has just taken place and the College of Cardinals is convening to elect the new pontiff from among their number. The morning began with the 8:30 am press screening of Nanni Moretti's "We Have a Pope." Hmm.a comedy/drama about the Vatican by a self-professed Italian atheist? Moretti is known primarily for his wry, intellectual, and largely autobiographical approach to comedy in films including "My Diary" and "April, " but also for serious drama in films including his 2001 Palme d'Or winner "The Son's Room." Subjects he has often lampooned include leftist politics, psychoanalysis, water-polo, and the cinema itself. Melville sets up the scene in such a way that you are on the edge of your seat through out this amazing sequence. The opening shots set during a storm in an Atlantic coast town in France, which introduced the bank robbery are incredibly beautiful and tense. An overcast sky threatening rain means that there couldn't be a more perfect day to stay inside and watch movies. 'Un Flic' (A Cop) the last film by Jean-Pierre Melville begins beautifully. Un ladrón de bancos y el robo de un tren reúnen a una mujer francesa, a su novio criminal y a un detective. A Paris police chief (Alain Delon, The Sicilian Clan) discovers that his nightclub owner friend (Richard Crenna, First Blood) also leads a group of bank robbers. Un flic est un film franais ralis par Jean-Pierre Melville, tourn en 1971 - 1972 et sorti en salles le 25 octobre 1972 1, 2. An unusually stylish action-suspense-crime film, the noirish UN FLIC is the last movie from Jean-Pierre Melville, one of the great French directors of the 50s and 60s. It's Friday the 13th in Cannes, and that has got to mean something good. Un Flic (Dirty Money) From Jean-Pierre Melville, the legendary director of Bob Le Flambeur, Le Doulos, Le Deuxime Souffle and Le Cercle Rouge comes this action-packed neo-noir. Jean-Pierre Melvilles last film, Un flic, is also a final film, a picture that envisions the ruins laying beyond cinemas construction of society, of masculinity, of modernity, of genre.
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