L'auberge Rouge (The Red Inn) - Amid catastrophe, the French Narrative Avant-Garde rewrote the screenplay.
To broaden his cinematic horizons, Ken Lowe is taking a gap year! Join him for this monthly feature throughout 2020, seeking out the essential, the classic, the weird, and the infamous films of a foreign country. This year, the spotlight is on France.
A group of urbane and well-dressed strangers gather at a candlelit inn in 19th century France, and one of the companions tells his fellow guests a story that, an acquaintance promises, will surely make all those present shiver. On a dark and stormy night in 1799, at an inn not so different from this one, he says, another group of strangers gathered to get out of the rain.
It’s too bad for the merchant that Prosper’s fellow traveler—our narrator has forgotten his name—does not stay his own hand. Prosper awakens to find himself covered in the merchant’s blood, the diamonds stolen, and himself implicated in the coverup. The innkeeper’s daughter, who has become infatuated with him, is devastated as the police march him off to a speedy trial and convict him, even as it seems comically clear he’s been set up.
The country’s film industry, which mostly consisted of what would be considered small businesses when compared with that of other countries, felt major financial strain as a result. All the while, new technology in the United States and Germany left the French industry behind, rushing to buy expensive, licensed access to new film technology that enabled them to produce the color and sound to keep their films competitive with the spectacle hitting screens in other countries.
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