MONACO AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVES
Fri. 16th October 2015 7:00pm
Marcel Pagnol was born in 1895, around the time of the birth of cinema.
He was a member of the Literary Council of the Prince Pierre of Monaco Foundation from 1951 to 1974. In 2015, we are celebrating the 120th anniversary of his birth.
On Friday October 16th at 7pm, in the Salle Prince Pierre, Monaco Audiovisual Archives will host a one-off showing of the film “Marius” based on the play by Marcel Pagnol (1931), directed by Alexandre Korda and starring Raimu, Pierre Fresnay and Orane Demazis.
The film was restored in 2015 by the Mediterranean Film Company (MFC - MPC) and La Cinémathèque française, with support from the CNC, the Franco-American Cultural Fund DGA-MPA-SACEM- WGAW, the ARTE France film competition and the Monaco Audiovisual Archives, with the participation of SOGEDA Monaco.
“In Pagnol’s work, the speaker’s accent does not represent a picturesque side-note, or a hint of local color. It forms an integral part of the text and thus of the characters. His heroes and dark-skinned characters alike speak with an accent. It is the very substance of their language, its reality. Also, Pagnol’s films are quite the opposite of the theatrical. They use language as an intermediary to find their place in the realist specificity of film. Pagnol is not a playwright turned screenwriter, but one of the greatest creators of sound films.” André Bazin (1953).
Price : €8 - Ticket : +377 99 99 3000