LIVE FOR LIFE
Robert loves Catherine. Catherine loves Robert. Robert is unfaithful. Catherine knows it. There is a vast road that goes from knowing and talking about it. And inside that field surrounded by walls built out of the unsaid, but known, a story grows worked by Claude Lelouch’s genius.
Francis Lai (soundtrack’s composer) whispers the ambience with such skills that in certain scenes dialogs would be redundant. Claude Lelouch knows Mankind beyond facts, like a deity that predicts what is yet to come. He tells Robert and Catherine story as an outsider who keeps a sharp eye. Lelouch's Paris became perpetual and often using it as scenery (Partir revenir, Les uns et les autres) he made his own work imortal. Vivre pour vivre is a film that belongs in a period but stresses structural human marks.
The choice of the cast was bold, but from boldness come the best works. Yves Montand plays Robert, a cosmopolitan war reporter. Annie Girardot plays Catherine his wife, a women Robert looks up to culturally, almost filially. Candice Bergen plays Candice, a passing flame in Robert’s life, a sort of adultery incentive that becomes the return point in the couple’s relation. Any love story must begin, or restart with the Truth.
Francis Lai (soundtrack’s composer) whispers the ambience with such skills that in certain scenes dialogs would be redundant. Claude Lelouch knows Mankind beyond facts, like a deity that predicts what is yet to come. He tells Robert and Catherine story as an outsider who keeps a sharp eye. Lelouch's Paris became perpetual and often using it as scenery (Partir revenir, Les uns et les autres) he made his own work imortal. Vivre pour vivre is a film that belongs in a period but stresses structural human marks.
The choice of the cast was bold, but from boldness come the best works. Yves Montand plays Robert, a cosmopolitan war reporter. Annie Girardot plays Catherine his wife, a women Robert looks up to culturally, almost filially. Candice Bergen plays Candice, a passing flame in Robert’s life, a sort of adultery incentive that becomes the return point in the couple’s relation. Any love story must begin, or restart with the Truth.
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Cast and crew:
Directed by Claude Lelouch
Music composed by Francis Lai
Yves Montand, Annie Girardot, Candice Bergen
1967
Cast and crew:
Directed by Claude Lelouch
Music composed by Francis Lai
Yves Montand, Annie Girardot, Candice Bergen
1967
