Filmed in the most daring way imaginable, using a new cinematic language of transient expressions and glances, the film was a root influence on Bresson and the whole French New Wave.
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03/03/08
La Silence De La Mer (1947)
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Average Rating:8/10
Synopsis: Forced to house a Nazi officer during the occupation, an elderly French man and his young niece determine never to speak to their uninvited guest. The soldier nonetheless shares his personal views... [More]
Starring: Howard Vernon, Jean-Maris Robian, Nicole Stephane
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
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The Occupation and its effects on people's emotional lives are recurrent themes in Melville's work, which has inspired the likes of Bresson, Astruc, Resnais and Rohmer.
03/03/08
Jean-Pierre Melville's great, too little-remembered debut, and a classic example of circumstance leading to aesthetic advance.
03/03/08
Requisite viewing for any student of post-war French cinema.
07/27/07
Melville's film is stimulating and perplexing.
04/14/03
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