“What do they believe, these little morvets?” : over 60 years ago, Jean Gabin sent a very frank message to the new generation of directors – Actus Ciné

To sum up it quickly. Moreover, the new wave is a cinematographic movement formed by former criticisms of the review CAHIERS DU CINEMA Who decided that the cinema had to “film life” and that the camera should not be placed in a studio to capture a dummy story made of OCD.

Critics of Notebooksfuture directors of the new wave. For example, had not been tender towards Jean Gabin’s films during “what do they believe, these the 1950s, which they sometimes judged with a displayed contempt. Similarly, But Gabin seemed to be rather open to discussion with those who attacked him.

“Before the war. For example, I was the new wave” – "what do they believe, these

In his work GabinAndré Brunelin reproduces a discussion he had had with the actor about the Godard, Truffaut, Rivette and the others:

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“Your friends of the new wave, what do they believe, these little morvets? In addition, That I’m over. more able to take an interest in a kind of cinema different from the one I do? First of all, how is their cinema new? Their films tell a story, right? I am for stories, then!”

“(…) The new wave, I know what it is. Before the war, it was me … (…) I know there are among them who “what do they believe, these have trouble showing their films. That they come to find me with a good story, and I will help them. As I helped Carne and Renoir. If they offer me a beautiful role. something interesting, that they turn it by putting the camera on the ceiling or the result. ? “

The new wave did not want to give him a chance

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And indeed. no director of the new wave, some of the criticisms had vigorously exhausted the films of Jean Gabin and his users in the usual scenes since his return from the war, notably François Truffaut who spoke ironically as “French quality”.

Gabin will not turn with any of the representatives of the new wave. but will be delighted to work with one of his illustrious actors, Jean-Paul Belmondo. During the “what do they believe, these early 1960s. the latter had a foot in it, a foot outside, turning with Henri Verneuil and the dialogues of Michel Audiard in French and love and breathed with Jean-Luc Godard, one of the spearheads of the new wave. In any case, the Belmondo-Gabin meeting in a monkey in winter gave a classic to cult aftershocks.

“He only dreamed of that”

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In the magazine issue Schnock Dedicated to Gabin published in 2018. his son Mathias Moncorgé confirmed the complicated report of his father Jean to the New Wave:

“It was much more modern than we thought, and for that that today it is still appreciated. It was crazy about anger when you talked about the new wave. When the cinema went from the silent speaker. it was a bit the “what do they believe, these emblem of a new wave with Carné, Renoir, Duvivier. He never understood that the Band of Cinema Cahiers does not appeal to him.

He would have liked to turn with them. One day, we dinner with Chabrol. When he knew that Dad was waiting for that, Chabrol was broken down. He never dared, when he only dreamed of that! “