Ev’ryone has that one friend that tells you the tough stuff the stuff you don’t want to hear. Max is the only one who could tell him Josy is NOT for him. Riton doesn’t question it, he just immediately does as Max says. There’s a point in the film where Max telephones Riton and tells him NOT to go with the guys in his room. The only one who Riton trusts completely IS Max. They probably were together as young men robbing and stealing. Max loves Riton, even if he’s a pain in his neck, bailing him out of scrapes. It’s the perfect, blendship… I enjoyed watching Max’s and Riton’s friendship.
So as I watched Josy, I said to myself: “She just draws the camera to her! I wonder who she is? I’m going to have to look her up after the movie.” Duh.”įriendship. It’s funny, I saw her name in the credits, but I was absolutely sure she was in a bit role. “I could not take my eyes off of Jeanne Moreau. I remember my friend Wendy ( who has an essay or two here on my blog ) saying: But for now we’ve got Moreau, and she commands attention in even this small early role. Oui oui, the cotton candy that’s Bardot would shortly be around fame’s bend. Jeanne Moreau plays Josy the chorus girl. Nothing going on? Ha! This quiet scene of two friends together says EVERYTHING about them. We would have never seen that in an American film of the 40’s taking the time to show the whole procedure and especially not today. We see Max make a snack for him and Riton…getting the sheets and blanket for bed… brushing his teeth…spitting out the water. And director Jacques Becker wasn’t afraid to take his time either in letting scenes play out. There was a leisureliness to the whole film. Every footstep on cobblestone…every bottle uncorked, every French bread torn in half was pronounced.
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The Foley artists must have had a ball doing this movie I felt like I had superhuman hearing. She’s too young, and too pretty for him, but he wants her. And these ‘old guys’ are just fantastic! The crux of the story is the friendship between Max and his dear impetuous friend of twenty years, Riton ( poignantly played by René Dary ), a man who perhaps is trying to hold onto his youth with his affair with a young chorus girl. At first blush I thought “what do these old guys ‘think’ they’re going to do with these young girls.” Silly me…it’s Jean Gabin. Max and the gangsters are middle~aged men. ) The thrust of the story is he’s pulled a job netting a couple of thousands in gold bullions but his friend and partner is kidnapped by a rival gang and Max must pay a ransom to get him back …those gold bullions.
( …And dashingly wears the hell out of double breasted suits. He walks confidently through the underworld. The other men look to him as their leader. He’s a take-charge-take-care-of-business kinda guy. The movie shows us Max’s life and how he walks through his world. You know he knows what to do…on a heist or in the bedroom. He’s a man a ruggedly beautiful and masculine man. He’s not handsome at all by Hollywood-standards. Nope, he’s not the pretty boy~type in the Delon / Jourdan mold. The head of the gang is MAX played by Jean Gabin. She’s there for him before, during…and after
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