#pierre blaise

[lefildariane]

Lacombe Lucien (Louis Malle, 1974).

[davidhudson]

Happy 79th, Aurore Clément.

With Pierre Blaise and Louis Malle during the making of Lacombe, Lucien (1974).

[lajoiedefrancoise]

Lucien Lacombe (1974)

[filmtagebuch]

Lacombe Lucien (1974)

[pixienatthecat]

Lacombe, Lucien (1974, France, Directed by: Louis Malle)

[boireuncoup]

[fixy8ed4xys]

[Lacombe, Lucien] is a long, close look at the banality of evil; it is - not incidentally - one of the least banal movies ever made. The actions are handled plainly, with restraint-with no attempt to shock anyone, or impress anyone;...The movie is the boy’s face. The magic is the intense curiosity and intelligence behind the film - in Malle’s perception that the answers to our questions about how people with no interest in politics become active participants in brutal torture are to be found in Lucien’s plump-cheeked, narrow-eyed face, and that showing us what this boy doesn’t react to can be the most telling of all. 

Review of Louis Malle’s Lacombe, Lucien by Pauline Kael in The New Yorker, September 30, 1974

[citroncollective]

Film Stills from Louis Malle’s “Lacombe, Lucien” (1974)

France (to her father, Albert): “You’re afraid of him?”

Lucien: “Yes - and he has good reason to be.”