Don’t worry, it won’t take long. I could even hear his engine, and the lumber bouncing up and down with every bump. Isabelle Adjani is la belle image and femme fatale in One Deadly Summer, Jean Becker's enticing noir pastiche, now available in a serviceable Blu-ray package from Bayview Entertainment. Their relationship develops quickly, but even as they make plans to marry, Fiorimond doesn't know what to make of his bride-to-be: is she an enigma or simply vacuous? By creating an account, you agree to the Privacy Policy One Deadly Summer is a true classic of suspense. a tale of small-town rape-revenge and tragic myopia, with a versatile Isabelle Adjani. Sign up here. Absolutely hated this book. I watched him once driving down into the valley, on the road that follows the river. Born in Marseille in 1931, he died in 2003. One Deadly Summer is must see for fans of French cinema and the thriller genre and this release from CultFilms serves as a great introduction to the work of Jean Becker. He is best known for A Very Long Engagement, which won the Prix Interallié and was made into a film by Amélie director Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Fast, free delivery. French author, screenwriter, and film director Sébastien Japrisot (1931–2003) was a translator of the works of J. D. Salinger. Isabelle Adjani won a César award for her performance in this film. ©Universal. A fairly decent adaptation of a good psychological thriller by Sébastien Japrisot, scripted by the author himself. one deadly summer starts out as an amiable french comedy before going down a strange and unexpected path. I don’t know who he gets his brains from. It’s all twists and turns and sudden drops, and the road is hardly wide enough for one car. He wanted to go to America. One Deadly Summer Storyline. Though it relates history through cinema, it’s equally interested in the history of cinema itself—specifically Italian neorealism and how Becker’s father, Jacques, often intersected politics and gender through a genre template in films such as Casque d’Or and Touchez Pas au Grisbi. This novel has always reminded me of another old fave, Cornell Woolrich's, Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2009. 5 34% (201) 4 40% (241) 3 21% (124) 2 4% (25) 1 1% (7) Book ratings by Goodreads. Isabelle Adjani won a César award for her performance in this film. — The New York Times "A rich and resonant sonata in black ... the taut shaping of a grand master." One Deadly Summer starts out as an amiable French comedy before going down a strange and unexpected path. Then they took in my mother’s sister. Sebastian Japrisot, Translated by Alan Sheridan. . And he translated J. D. Salinger's novels for a Francophone audience. In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Set Profile Image; Advertisement. Coming Soon. When Coppi died, he grew a mustache as a sign of mourning. I struggled to read this to start with - it feels so 1970s and the plot appears predictable and the characters a little formulaic. Share. --This text refers to the. "The most welcome talent since the early Simenons." ©Universal. Unfortunately, I was a little disappointed. Power cuts plunged entire boroughs into darkness. 4.01 out of 5 stars. I rubbed it with rat poison, but that didn’t work. Translation of L'été meurtrier "A Helen and Kurt Wolff book." Deadly Summer (Darling Investigations Book 1) - Kindle edition by Swank, Denise Grover. When I had read the story for the first time, the plot twist towards the end totally surprised me and hit me like a brick! The following is an exclusive excerpt from One Deadly Summer, the classic noir from Sebastian Japrisot set during a sultry summer in the South of France, newly reissued by Gallic Books. Image 7 of 22. But Elle has her own reason for the relationship: Pin-Pon's deceased father was one of the men who brutally gang-raped her mother (Maria Machado) two decades before, and she's out to get her own form of revenge. Jean Becker's direction is adequate but completely lacking in tension; a first-rate director - say, Claude Chabrol in his prime - would have made more of the psychosexual strangeness of the tale, and would have better disguised the fact that the nicely ironic ending hinges on a pretty indigestible coincidence. Vengeful seductress (Isabelle Adjani) lures mechanic (Alain Souchon) in French village. 1 Comment; All lists. Cinemark Topic. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. A mysterious young beauty causes quite a ruckus in a small French town one summer, driving the men wild and tricking one of them into marrying her. She worked in a laundry and he did odd jobs on farms, but he earned practically nothing, and of course you can’t go to America on foot. One Deadly Summer plays out as historical pastiche. Storyline. Funny, awful, first-rate. We want to hear what you have to say but need to verify your account. | Rating: C The movie, therefore, somehow manages to feel simultaneously watered-down and overlong. I feel like I didn’t so much read this book as live it. 598 ratings. and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango. She’s sixty-eight, twelve years older than Mamma, but Mamma looks the older of the two. He married our mother, who was named Desrameaux and came from Digne. It’s the way the families, the farms, the villages leap off the page as if you’d known them all your life. Rate. Fiorimondo Montecciari―that’s what’s written in the town hall and on my papers. In French with English subtitles. He is definitely an author whose total works should not be forgotten! From the novel by Sebastien Japrisot. They all want to go to America, the Ritals. Memory Lane. Born in Marseille in 1931, he died in 2003. show more. One Deadly Summer won the Prix Deux Magots in 1978 and the film adaptation starring Isabelle Adjani won the César Award 1984. What a masterful story-teller! I got into a fight over it once―the only time in my life―and everyone went around saying I was violent. At night, when a dormouse gets inside, we’re treated to quite a serenade. Coming Soon. For a whole day he said nothing, just sat on an old acacia stump in the snow-covered yard, smoking his American tobacco, which he rolled into cigarettes himself. One Deadly Summer. Add to Watchlist. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. 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