tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post3732355644415065005..comments2024-03-23T21:46:50.843-04:00Comments on the passionate moviegoer: Au Revoir, Jean-Claude, 1933-2007joe baltakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11467420961490314339noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-90827726351401500912007-06-05T08:43:00.000-04:002007-06-05T08:43:00.000-04:00Thanks to Daryl Chin for pointing out Brialy's oth...Thanks to Daryl Chin for pointing out Brialy's other accomplishments. There was more to him than "Claire's Knee."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-86329316731044097272007-06-04T18:16:00.000-04:002007-06-04T18:16:00.000-04:00Merci! I liked Brialy and I like the French film i...Merci! I liked Brialy and I like the French film industry. I wish more got here. Someone else who died recently: Jean-Pierre Cassel, dad of Vincent Cassel. Yes, there's no one to replace themAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-80080453391824046392007-06-03T10:42:00.000-04:002007-06-03T10:42:00.000-04:00As with his compatriot Gerard Blain (his costar in...As with his compatriot Gerard Blain (his costar in Chabrol's "Le Beau Serge" and "Les Cousins" - essential works long missing in distribution), Brialy became a noted director in France, but none of his films have so far made it over here. (At the last Tribeca Film Festival, one of Blain's works - "The Pelican" - was shown.) Another note about Brialy: in the late 1950s, when a film he was appearing in was playing at the Cannes Film Festival, Brialy invited some of his friends to stay with him in his hotel room, so that they could all have a vacation. One of those friends was the young Alain Delon, and that was how Delon attracted the attention of film producers. But Brialy continued acting in films (there is a film now in post-production which was shot in January).<BR/><BR/>Isn't it funny how so much of the actual history of films has been forgotten? Chabrol's early films (especially "The Cousins") were big international successes, just as Philippe De Broca's early films ("The Game of Love", "The Joker" and "The Five Day Lover") made an impression. (The De Broca films starred Jean-Pierre Cassel, who also died recently; "The Joker" has one of Anouk Aimee's finest early performances - along with Demy's "Lola" - and "The Five Day Lover" has Jean Seberg in one of her loveliest performances.) <BR/><BR/>I haven't been able to see "Le Beau Serge", "The Cousins", "The Game of Love", "The Joker" and "The Five Day Lover" in decades, but they were crucial works in the New Wave. ("The Game of Love" would be reworked the next year by Jean-Luc Godard - he gives credit to the original screenplay of Genevieve Cluny and De Broca - as "A Woman Is a Woman", which starred Jean-Claude Brialy along with Anna Karina.)Daryl Chinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13371258313590183345noreply@blogger.com