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La Fete a Henriette (1952) Julien Duvivier; Dany Robin, Michel Auclair

La Fete a Henriette (1952) Julien Duvivier; Dany Robin, Michel Auclair

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This is a region-free DVD-R without case or artwork.In French with English subtitles.La Fête à Henriette (Holiday for Henrietta) is a Pirandellian comedy about the art of movie making. Louis Seigner and Henri Cremieux play a team of screenwriters whose latest project is stuck in a mire of indecision. Should fictional heroine Henriette (Dany Robin) be permitted a happy ending as the romantic Seigner insists, or suffer an unhappy one as "film noir" specialist Cremieux demands? While the screenwriters hash out their contrasting points of view, we see a film-within-a-film, dramatizing the formulating screenplay and its abrupt changes of mood and direction.

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RICHARD WILLETT from KANSAS CITY, MO United States
February 7, 2024
completely misjudged
One of the most outrageous films ever made. It was completely misjudged by the critics of the time but had enough success to be remade poorly as "Paris When It Sizzles" with Audrey Hepburn and William Holden. The film is a fantasy that is filmed before your very eyes, as two screenwriters with opposing personalities try to develop a story for a movie. Duvivier was accused of imitating Welles by
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Anonymous Person from San Francisco, CA United States
August 19, 2022
Charming
Charming film in which the product of two screenwriters has been rejected and they must come up with another story pronto. They imagine and argue over different ideas, and as they do, we see their ideas come to life as a film within the film, which mutates from romantic comedy to melodrama to expressionistic noir and back again as the quarreling writers explore various possibilities. Duvivier (Pepe le Moko, Panique) is the greatest of French noir filmmakers, and there are some great sequences, and some intense moments, although the overall tone here is very light.
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June 6, 2022
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