This time your evening Classic Cine on La Trois will make you discover ath dramatic musical 1977 with Robert de Niro and Liza Minelli and sheavelized by great Martin Scorsese.
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As New York City celebrates its victory over Japan, a demobilized soldier, Jimmy Doyle, meets a young woman, Francine, at the Starlight Club, who helps her get hired at a Brooklyn nightclub. Francine is a talented singer, and Jimmy a beginning saxophonist. They will love each other, make a career, know the fame, separate and meet again ten years later.
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The film is marked by the chanson “New York, New York” popularized by Frank Sinatra in 1979. This title tell the expression a passionate, tragic and touching love story. “New York, New York” is sung by the character of Francine Evans (Liza Minnelli) as a message to her lover Jimmy Doyle (Robert de Niro). The music is composed by John Kander on the words of Fred Ebb.
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Just before devoting himself to “New York, New York”, the filmmaker caused a sensation in Cannes in 1976 by winning the Golden Palm for “Taxi Driver”, the story of a lonely Vietnam veteran obsessed with dirty streets new yorkaises.
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Just after, director Martin Scorsese presents a sensitive and personal cinema with “New York, New York” a film from his beginnings. Make a musical was a risk for thethe filmmaker. He started the film in a very bad period of his life which resulted in a messy shoot. Scorsese was depressed and ravaged by the drug.
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The themes covered in this musical are l‘man, woman and their reports. The filmmaker shows, among others, Francine’s musical success as a way to fill the emotional void left by Jimmy and non not by its hard work to make it happen.
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The film and the song also express the disappointments of this romantic relationship. Jimmy only considers Francine as a means of achieving professional, social and emotional success.
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The film is a tribute to the musicals of Vincente Minnelli, the father of the main actress. The will was to create a universe comedy musical dis 40s and 50s. Care is taken when shooting in the studio, to the sung scenes, at work on colors and sets pThe original idea was to recreate the New York of the time in the studio. This task was difficult and costly.
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Appointment Tuesday February 25 at 9:05 p.m. on La Trois in your evening Classic Cine alongside Robert de Niro and Liza Minelli.
Program also available in subtitled version (CC) and multilingual.
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