yves montand – Perisphere

Film as Witness in Costa-Gavras’s Z

By Finn Odum August 11, 2023 August 10, 2023 Uncategorized

A crowd of men stand on the road at night; in the back is a line of men wearing blue helmets. In front of them are mostly men in suits. At the front is Yves Montand, dressed in a brown suit.

|Luke Mosher| This essay contains spoilers for the film Z. Costa-Gavras’s 1969 film Z is a fictionalized account of the 1963 assassination of the Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis by the Greek government. The title refers not to our English Z but the Greek letter Zeta, which protesters… Continue reading

Stubborn Joy

By Finn Odum August 11, 2023 August 11, 2023 Uncategorized

In an empty kitchen, a tall man in a soft sweater embraces a shorter woman with a bob haircut.

|MH Rowe| In film, physiognomy is destiny. Because this is so, the face of Yves Montand is perfectly suited for a destiny shared by so many men and women in mid-century dramas, from Hollywood and beyond: being tired. The tiredness of Montand in Alain Resnais’s La Guerre est finie (1966… Continue reading

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