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Le souffle de la liberté
In 1789, French poet André Chénier struck up a romance with a young aristocrat.
| Release : | 1955 |
| Rating : | 5.5 |
| Studio : | Lux Film, |
| Crew : | Director, |
| Cast : | Michel Auclair Antonella Lualdi Raf Vallone Maria Zanoli Rina Morelli |
| Genre : | Drama History |
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This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.
While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
The movie really just wants to entertain people.
Loosely based on poet André Chénier's tragic life ,one of the innocent victims of the revolutionary tribunal (along with,among others ,great scientist Lavoisier),the screenplay has undergone some changes.To secure a romantic ending,the heroine (Antonella Lualdi) sacrifices her life to follow Chénier (Michel Auclair)on the guillotine ;actually she was not executed and ,to put it mildly,she did not care that much about her mate who wrote " La Jeune Captive" about her.The movie was actually an opera ,but as the actors (Lualdi,Auclair and Vallone ) were not singers ,instead of having them dubbed ,director Fracassi opted for spoken parts ,using only the music for the soundtrack.Historically,the movie is not very convincing -about as much as Griffith's silent "orphans of the storm ",but the three principals are gifted thespians and give this romantic love story substance.
