Le grand pavois

Name: Le grand pavois
Genre: Drama
Released: 1954-06-21
Duration: 1 h 33 min
Cast: Jean Chevrier, Marc Cassot, Marie Mansart

1954
1h 33m

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Drama

For Naval officers duty comes first. Navy Lieutenant Favrel is one of these men. He has promised his wife Simone to stay with her all the time but a last mission aboard a training cruiser ma... Read allFor Naval officers duty comes first. Navy Lieutenant Favrel is one of these men. He has promised his wife Simone to stay with her all the time but a last mission aboard a training cruiser makes him realize that his life is tied to the sea. For his part, Navy cadet Pierre Hardouin... Read allFor Naval officers duty comes first. Navy Lieutenant Favrel is one of these men. He has promised his wife Simone to stay with her all the time but a last mission aboard a training cruiser makes him realize that his life is tied to the sea. For his part, Navy cadet Pierre Hardouin understands that sailing is his vocation. The prospect of staying home alone while Pierre... Read all

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dbdumonteil

Obsolete.

So obsolete it's interesting as a museum item.This movie deals with life on the "Joan of Arc" warship in the fifties .The plot is insignificant(the problems of sailors who leave their wives or fiancees for a long time is quickly forgotten) and takes a back seat to documentary interest:the rituals,when the men cross the equator for the first time,the "funeral" for a subaltern (before he became a superior).

This seems too good to be true sometimes.Oddly,the storm scenes recall Ridley Scott's "white squall" (1996)(the other way about more like!)

At the beginning ,the girls often say :"I wish I were a boy".Nowadays,no problem: there are women in the navy.

They don't do movies like this one -actually ,in the fifties,that were not,as it has always been mooted , an artistic nadir for French cinema,it was already out of fashion-,hence its -relative- charm.