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RELEASE

-=Present=-
Backbiters(1924)
aka: Une vie sans joie

Release Date ---06.13.2005      Video Codec   ---XviD 1.0.2
Theatre Date ---N/A             Video Bitrate ---1075kbps
DVD Release  ---10.21.2003      Resolution    ---512x384
RunTime      ---84min           Audio Codec   ---VBR MP3 MONO
Movie Genre  ---N/A             Audio Bitrate ---75kbps
Language     ---Silent          Framerate     ---25.000
Subtitles    ---N/A             Disks         ---49x15MB

IMDB Rating  ---awaiting 5 votes
IMDB URL     ---http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0153439/

MOVIE

-=Plot=-

Catherine is a servant girl working for the local mayor and
victim of the sharp tongues of the mayor's wife and her
friends. This is made clear in a first scene where she is
asked to get the key of the mayor's desk at a cultural party
the wife is attending. She is harassed by the whole elite who
dislike the intrusion of the maid. In this scene it's made
clear also that the wife has a secret lover who will later
challenge the mayor's political career and will use Catherine
as a scapegoat for his own ambitions. This role of "bad guy"
is played by Renoir himself. The mayor who is fond of
Catherine and is afraid that she'll be more victimized by his
wife asks his sister to give Catherine a position in her own
household. The sister has a son with tuberculosis (role played
by Dieudonn ). He's so weak he has no success with women of
his class but of course Catherine will like instantly this
fragile man. He dies after kissing Catherine while the rest of
the town is celebrating carnival. The kissing scene at the
window mixed with the fireworks is a brilliant moment of
silent melodrama. Catherine is in mourning and because of that
driven away by the mayor's wife and her friends. It is
indecent that a servant girl is in mourning and shows public
affection for someone who is not from her own social status.
The emotions of Catherine are the element of disorder in the
social ordered world of the rich. Catherine goes away and
hides in a cheap hotel in the city where she is also bullied
by a local pimp who sees in her an easy target to exploit. By
accident Catherine is seen in the hotel window with the pimp,
so more reason for gossip by the elite. When she returns to
the village looking for a job she is rejected everywhere, even
by the local Christian relief organization of which the mayor'
s wife became president. She meets the mayor again who is
shocked by the attitude of the town, takes her in his home
again and promotes her to his secretary. The wife is furious
of course and leaves her husband to live with her mother. It
is start of a slander campaign against the political
credibility of the mayor. The lover of the mayor's wife sees
what is happening as a golden opportunity and makes a public
attack on the moral character of the mayor (what's new under
the sun?) Catherine wants to avoid the downfall of her
protector and leaves the mayor, explaining herself in a note.
She hides in an old tram for the rain while the mayor is
driving around in his car frantically looking for the girl.
Two vagabonds are thrown out of a pub and out of frustration
push the tram car, so it starts a crazy race up and down the
hills towards the bridge and the valley abyss. Catherine is
already accepting her death but is saved in time by the mayor
who has made his choice for the girl. The social implications
of his choice are not shown but are clear for all.

-=Casting=-

Catherine Hessling ....  Catherine Ferand
Albert Dieudonn  ....  Maurice Laisn
Eug nie Naud ....  Mme Laisn
Pierre Lestringuez ....  Adolphe, le maquereau (as Pier
Philippe)
Pierre Champagne ....  Le fils Mallet

NOTES

First (silent) movie from Jean Renoir. Enjoy it!

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