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Apr 24, 1971 · Le Chat: Directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre. With Jean Gabin, Simone Signoret, Annie Cordy, Jacques Rispal. In 1971 Courbevoie (France), former typographist Julien Bouin and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly talk to each other in their small house, which is soon to be demolished.
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- Drama
- Pierre Granier-Deferre
- 1971-04-24
Le Chat ([lə ʃa], "The Cat") is a 1971 French-language drama film directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre and based on Georges Simenon's 1967 novel The Cat. It recounts the story of an elderly married couple, Julien Bouin, a former typographist, and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, who have been loathing each other for years.
The movie is one of the countless good films based on novels by Georges Simenon, and indeed Granier-Deferre wrote 15 episodes for a French TV series about Simenon's Inspector Maigret. But in his non-Maigret novels, Simenon was often dark, realistic, and a stylist sometimes compared to Camus. Clemence in "Le Chat" is played by Simone Signoret ...
A retired Frenchman (Jean Gabin) and his wife (Simone Signoret) live in mutual hate in an old house on the edge of Paris. Director Pierre Granier-Deferre Producer Raymond Danon Screenwriter Pierre ...
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- Pierre Granier-Deferre
- Drama
- Jean Gabin
Le Chat is a darkly ironic film. Whilst it appears to show the cruel transience of love, it ends by suggesting that whilst love may whither, it can never completely die. Julien and Clémence's mutual detestation is more a reflection of their abject disillusionment with life than a total absence of benign feeling towards one another. Their ...
- Pierre Granier-Deferre
Courbevoie (France), 1971. Julien Bouin, a former typographist, and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly talk to each other in their small house, soon to be demolished. His cat Greffier being the only one he still gives affection to, he becomes the object of Clemence's anger.
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Overview. Julien Bouin, a former typographist, and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly talk to each other in their small house, soon to be demolished. His cat Greffier being the only one he still gives affection to, he becomes the object of Clemence's anger. Pierre Granier-Deferre. Director, Writer. Georges Simenon. Novel.
