Nuits rouges is a 1974 frenchitalian crime and thriller film directed by georges franju. The faceless man attempts to steal the treasure of the knights templar. Georges franju s last film needs to be understood in relation to the trying circumstances in which it was made, as outlined by writer and actor jacques champreux in the interview included as an extra on the judex nuits rouge eureka masters of cinema dvd. It enjoys the worst reputation of his limited resume yet for all its shortcomings its surprisingly enjoyable and a much more successful homage than judex. Nuits rouges 1974ko georges franju frantziar zinema zuzendariaren filma da. A secret society, the police and the victims join together to track him down.
Heres a very cool addition to any film freaks collection. One is in black and white with a marked interest in orthochromatic effects, the other is in vivid seventies colour. Nuits rouges is a film directed by georges franju with gayle hunnicutt, jacques champreux, josephine chaplin, ugo pagliai, year. The basic plot is very good, i think, for the topic is popular for the last few years. Clad in a featureless red mask, the man without a face is involved in a singleminded pursuit of the fabled treasure of the knights templar in this tribute to the pulp adventure stories of louis feuillade. Scripted in collaboration with feuillades grandson, jacques champreux, these films evince the same poetic magic that made the art of that earlier master a cause celebre not only for the surrealist movement, but also for the world renowned. Its partly a matter of aesthetics the colour imagery distances the film further from the look of the original films and, given the nature of what unfolds within, more readily recalls the emma peelera colour avengers episodes. The man without a face is an archvillain, comicbook style, and in this french action movie, he proves to be a worthy foe.
Judex introduction georges franju is a director who i have a lot of time for as he made the brilliant horror film eyes without a face, which is one of my personal favourites. The movie is based on a french tv series lhomme sans. Franju has captured the bw orthochromatic look and and also used inserted text tableaus to mark new chapters. Scripted in collaboration with feuillades grandson jacques champreux these films evince the same poetic magic that made the art of that earlier master a cause celebre not only for the surrealist movement, but also for the.
The film was then released to theaters in a condensed and partly reshot version called nuits rouges red nights that became one of the earliest acquisitions for a fledgling us company called new line pictures. Judex and nuits rouges form a double bill dvd release from eurekas master of cinema series,they are directed by the famous french auteur george franju eyes without a face,and are both homage films to the fantomas franchise directed by one of the greatest french directors louis feuilladeles vampires,tih minh. Nuits rouges 1974 shadowman download movie wipfilms. They dubbed the film into english and called it shadowman. Franju s judex and nuits rouges both paid overt homage to the surreal, silent serialworks of feuillade. However, he is only drugged by judex and locked away. Judex feels somewhat like an old or even silent movie, and this is intended. English version of nuits rouges a movie directed by georges franju 1975 with jacques champreux and gayle hunnicutt. With nuits rouges, georges franju returned to the territory of louis feuillade, whose adventure serials also provided the inspiration for franju s 1963 judex. The man without a face is visibly inspired in fantomas, but the adventure is too silly and the acting is very poor.
Whilst clearly not his best film, it is an enjoyable romp that managing to be both a respectful homage and a glorious sendup of feuillades work. Overview of nuits rouges, 1973, directed by georges franju, with henry lincoln, ugo pagliai, josephine chaplin, at turner classic movies. Des films 100% tricolores les 100 meilleurs films francais. I appreciate very much franju and champreuxs efforts to rekindle, as champreux says, the naivety of early cinema. Jacques champreux, gayle hunnicut, gerte frobe synopsis. Check member ratings of judex and nuits rouges aka judexred nights movie. Franju has captured the bw orthochromatic look and and. The villain has an extensive crime network, including a retreat under the. Nuits rouges is a messy, lame and crazy lowbudget movie directed by georges franju. If you dig diabolik and judex style films you need to check this one out.
The man without a face is visibly inspired in fantomas, but the adventure. Nuits rouges remains a curio, but one that now looks so far removed from time or place as to be all but meaningless. And while franju s impressively contemporary visuals periodically lift ones waning attention, judex, for the most part, remains an entirely ineffective curiosity thats best left forgotten. Judex nuits rouges masters of cinema dvd 19631973 nonusa format, pal, reg. A troubled production, to put it mildly, it came out of. Shadowman is a master criminal who wears a red hood on his face and can disguise himself into and. This is no condescension of early silents or of feuillades films.
Made a decade later, nuits rouges is far wilder, more garish and absurd, than its predecessor. Simply put, with judex ad nuits rouges, the emphasis is always on. If i was completely sold on judex, i found myself a little less certain about nuits rouges, champreuxs and franju s second homage to the cinema of louis feuillade. Today, along with much of franju s work, nuits rouges is somewhat more highly regarded. Nuits rouges pelicula completa, ver online y descargar. Favraux, an unscrupulous banker, receives a threatening note, signed by judex, demanding that he pay back the people he has swindled. One is a period film whose use of intertitles and irising mimics the silentera effects of its 1914 setting, the.
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