Mello

Mello is a Play of Henri Bernstein (1929), Alain Resnais drew from it a Film in 1986.

Synopsis

A single person and a couple confront their respective lives: the first does not have any more that the memories, the second has nothing any more but the compromises. He veils the face when his/her best friend, Marcel, allured his wife. The tragedy broods under these pretenses… In each case, the failure is open, the regrets chahutent the daily newspaper. It is enough that heroin yields to temptation to rectify its destiny so that the apocalypse falls down on the heads of the cursed trio.

Film adaptation

the part of Bernstein was the subject of a first homonymous film adaptation left the October 21st 1932. Realization of Paul Czinner; adaptation Paul Czinner and Carl Mayer; images of Jules Kruger and Rene Ribault; with Gaby Morlay, Pierre Blanchar, Victor Francen…

As in last Year with Marienbad and before Smoking/No Smoking , the film of Alain Resnais wonders about the chance and the free-referee.

Resnais also pays homage to the theater and its artifices through visible decorations and actors who assert themselves as such (the red curtain opens and is closed on them).

Data sheet

Title: Mello
Realization: Alain Resnais
Scenario: A. Resnais, according to the part of Henri Bernstein
: Charlie Van Rams
Décors: Jacques Saulnier
Music: Philippe-Gerard and of the extracts of Brahms and Bach
Assembly: Albert Jurgenson
Sound: Henri Morelle
Production: MK2, Films Directing A2
of production: Catherine lapoujade
Distribution: MK2 Diffusion
Beginning of turning on December 16th, 1985
Country: France
Kind: Drama
Colors by Agfacolor- Mono
Lasted: 112 min
Left: September 3rd 1986

Distribution

Sabine Azéma: Roman Belcroix
Fanny Ardant: Christiane Lesveque
Pierre Arditi: Pierre Belcroix
Andre Dussollier: White Marcel
Jacques Dacquemine: Doctor Rémy
Hubert Gignoux: a priest
Catherine Arditi: Yvonne

Rewards

Two Césars 1987 for Sabine Azéma (better actress) and Pierre Arditi (best supporting role).

See too

Melodrama with the theater
Melodrama with the cinema

External bonds

Mello on Internet Movie Database

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