Mr. Ripois (Rene Clement) qand a scene from a movie I like, I often watch it frame by frame. Looking the other night Mr. Ripois, a film that revolves Rene Clement in 1954 and I have seen that through ticket
Jade, it's still what I did, I was then arrested by this wonderful kiss exchanged Gerard Philipe, here more insolent beauty and talent than ever, and Margaret Johnston, an actress I would say though, to tease my darling, it's not ugly, she no longer . But while I expected nothing more than a little pleasure to the viewer, in this case the me enjoy the beautiful plastic that kiss, this kiss so romantic seen as a whole I do not doubt for one second he had, and should still make more of a crack and so beautifully written in his time with his beautiful black and white before the advent of color, with its big city in the rain with her lovers entwined and as live action that immediately reminded me of some famous shots Boubat or Doisneau, what was my surprise when suddenly, in one of these pictures taken, I read what I believe to be all the talk of the film.
Of course, to collect the frozen in this speech to my mind fully focused on the desire in the couple, as can sometimes live, he must first get rid of these skins Ripois Mr. deceivers cynical or opportunistic in which we the slides a little too often, wrongly, I think he, Mr. Ripois having neither the brains nor the evil of the Vicomte de Valmont, and bears no resemblance to Georges Duroy, the hero of Maupassant, not belong, like him, this category of men who denominate their charm on high social position of women in order to say goodbye for lean months.
However, with Norah, the first triumph of the hero, I was pretty badly for Mr. Ripois extirpate these two skin sticky so the guy gave me the impression that what interested primarily in her c ' was his status as head of service, a status that could, if successful in its business of seduction, allow it to draw a definitive line on the unrewarding work of a clerk that he was doing for her. In addition, he was courting as a pugnacious military strategist who sends his troops on the right wing of his enemies after failing the right side, that is to say, endlessly, and each of its attacks underscored a sense of victory unpleasant, disagreeable, indeed, as redolent of the seductive claim, the nerve of those people who know them have always been, that the beauty and allure, beauty and style that Mr. Ripois had certainly are weapons against which it is virtually impossible to defend. And for good reason, these arms disarm their targets by flattering them, and sometimes do so some of them, past the meantime the status of the target victim, quick to forgive. Forgive have been a target time of beauty and allure, it's what will remain when the beautiful Norah Mr. Ripois, pamper tired of its interior with large brushstrokes disorderly, depart for the spectacular kiss under the Anna's rain.
With Catherine, the official wife, I must confess that I was not better off, because if this woman is immensely rich and immensely worldly, goes well pick the hero of the film by Rene Clement as his London loft where he officiates as a French teacher, is still going to seduce him, the bamboozled by adding to his presence and his innate charm a beautiful spirit that does not suspect him. Doubts that it would issue about his ability to teach literature and culture that it would spread before him as if she was the teacher and her students, it would be a response by a seductive "You just give my first French lesson! " which would allow the tirade which fly to regain control of heart in a case where, initially, in heavy literary handicaps, he seemed not to weigh very heavily.
And with Marcelle, the prostitute with a heart who will gather one night when he no longer had to live on his radio, the radio that he was saving the desire of the owner of his room to get a refund on his personal business that rents, after losing his job he no longer paid, the radio that he was saving a little unnecessarily so, because to plug a radio when you are more at home?, and who, finally broken by a motorist in a hurry, would not be far from him snatch a few tears, this radio which I quote above because it pushes me to say that the save, not only despite having sold his two nights of vagrancy and the terrible hunger tormented him so that if Don Juan sometimes it was only calculated to afford pleasure, because this radio is that it still, fun, dreams, happiness possible, and with the romantic Patricia, if blue flower in her head that to interfere in his heart he would arrive at the intimate secrets, blackmail over the two candles of meals in head to head, both candles lit from behind questionable motives, a genuine voice of the violin so she can believe it, I was much more advanced, as if on one hand, Marcelle would offer much the cottage and shelter, and even part of his inheritance so he could start his small business, it would do that as a woman seduced by its allure and beauty found, and secondly, Patricia would not meet its advances only when, short of arguments to convince her, it would simulate a suicide; this simulation, the ultimate act of seduction, which tells all about his real intentions with her.
Only now, with Mr. Ripois, do as Jade, is mainly looking at the side of his wives, because, to borrow this look, we understand that if Mr. Ripois much agitated, so many of still it gives the impression of not letting the other characters only crumbs of action and, hence, that the film should be seen through him, he never makes that agitate for something only five women control themselves and wait eagerly. This something that has never been about money, Anna, to mention it being far too modest socially and professionally for Mr. Ripois can be confused with Madeleine, the woman springboard Bel-Ami, and never found either of the enjoyment that Valmont vain drawn off his cruel games, the hero of the underrated masterpiece Rene Clement, unlike de Laclos, who never took pleasure in manipulating a woman won it, of course, fulfilling his desire. For if Anna, Norah, Catherine and Patricia Marcelle actually dominate Mr. Ripois to have skirts that aims to meet, they are also ahead of him, all to be childless and willing, like almost all women, starting a family - there it is their only common point - as prisoners of him as are the flowers in the summer, the insect that is required to bring the tiny seed of fertilization. The image that I had stopped shows very well indeed, because we can see Anna standing before Mr. Ripois as if it was only one of these flowers, his mouth wide open, functional before him, which is no more than insect then, inviting, drawing, as do the petals of the flowers apart. And if his mouth is wild tunes, seems to swallow you alive, because at that time, Anna is less driven by love than by the imperious desire to become a mother she feels .
In each of the kisses that Mr. Ripois received from these women, there was therefore under love the hidden hope of motherhood. Such was the desire of these women, as is the desire of women without children often. In this hope of motherhood, the hero of Rene Clement would respond positively only through paralysis, that he should fake his suicide attempt. Prevented by this accident to come and go at will, now dependent of others as the child is his mother, he was so close, as rightly said Jade, Catherine, his wife, to become him even the child he never wanted to give him. But Mr. Ripois prisoner had thought a wheelchair, the butterfly without wings that he had become continue to flutter, the eyes, would persist much longer to undress pretty girls crossing his legs amorphous prohibited from approaching. Such was his desire, as is the desire of the man often.
