The Proud and the Beautiful (1953)
The Proud and the Beautiful (1953)
BDRip 1080p | MKV | 1480x1080 | x264 @ 15,7 Mbps | 103 min | 11,57 Gb
Audio: French FLAC 2.0 @ 237 Kbps | Subtitles: English, French
Genre: Drama
BDRip 1080p | MKV | 1480x1080 | x264 @ 15,7 Mbps | 103 min | 11,57 Gb
Audio: French FLAC 2.0 @ 237 Kbps | Subtitles: English, French
Genre: Drama
Directors: Yves Allégret, Rafael E. Portas
Starring: Michèle Morgan, Gérard Philipe, Carlos López Moctezuma, Michèle Cordoue, André Toffel, Arturo Soto Rangel
Nelly arrives with her sick husband in a remote town in Mexico. But the hot weather does not help the sick husband and he ends up dying of meningitis. In this sudden and painful way, Nelly, who realizes that she has lost her tickets and money, ends up alone and lost in this foreign country. The only help she gets comes from an alcoholic named Georges, who she will end up discovering is a French expatriate who has not managed to recover from the tragic death of his wife.
IMDB - Nominated for 1 Oscar
One of the greatest films I've ever seen, this movie took me completely by surprise, considering I'd never heard of it, and the videotape cover was very cheesy. Set in a small Mexican town, the main character is a drunk who is so intoxicated throughout the movie he can hardly walk. A plague of cerebral-spinal meningitis hits the town. This film has a startlingly raw edge to it, like nothing else I've seen from the 50s, but more like a Midnight Cowboy kind of down-and-out unflinching view of human situations. One of the first images is of the drunk carrying a pig's head through the streets of town. He delivers it to a whorehouse. The prostitute offers to pay him with sex, but he chooses to be paid in tequila. There's another scene of him cleaning up vomit, and a scene where the local doctor, the drunk, and a woman tourist take turns inoculating each other in the spine with a huge needle. This is not to say that the film is shocking or gross, but simply human and realistic. The photography is utterly pure and perfect. Nearly every composition is dynamic, with a strong perspective, background and foreground in play, half the shots have some kind of movement, dolly or pan, which is used concisely and never intrusively. Every set up is intelligent, resourceful and well executed. The acting is simply brilliant, the stars are believable, realistic and likeable. I don't know the story behind this production, or why it has slipped into obscurity, but it struck me as one of the GREAT films, comparable to something by Robert Bresson(who is one of my favorite directors) so, as you can guess, I highly recommend this. It's a ten.
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The Proud and the Beautiful (1953)
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