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In Reply to: Definite agreement on "The Passenger." posted by tinear on November 27, 2003 at 10:52:51:
Jean Vigo died at 29... such a loss. Of four films he made I saw two - that one and Zero for Conduct.I bet you didn't know Georgy Daneliya made essentially a remake of L'Atalante, called Fortuna... not too bad either, but set in the bandit Russia of the nineties.
Well, maybe a "remake" is too strong a word, but you will definitely recall the Vigo's film when watching the Fortuna.
Of course there's no Michel Simon in Fortuna.
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we move back to civilization, I'll find it.
...but understanding the Georgian-accented Russian?
Laughton was really good at dircting..., and that may easily be the best role Mitchum ever played.An eerie, poetic film indeed.
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was more believable) in "Cape Fear." (The original, of course, with a fabulous Gregory Peck performance and with Polly Bergen looking good enough to eat [Mitchum came close...]).
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