This is from the ten war films that you will find in his life: 68 years after the release, it remains at the absolute summit of the genre

In 1943, at the Burma prison camp, the English regiment was tasked with building a bridge in the jungle. After resisting this project, the Colonel provides Japanese requirements. It neglects that Americans are preparing to strengthen the bridge …

“The film managed to return the long lines of viewers in front of all the rooms where he was in the bill.” The British press enthusiastically, when the Kwai River ran out in 1957. At that time, a British movie theater that expired from steam to use formulas -comedies or psychological dramas -which success in the 1940s, welcomed, welcomed in the 1940s, welcomed success in the 1940s. David Lean’s very strong work as a blessing.

Spectacular rotation

There is nothing predicted to this film director, which was previously known for its intimate cinema and Charles Dickens’s literary adaptation, though with such a masterful blow. Especially since his two previous works, the footwear on foot and vacation in Venice, only had a polite interest.

Some of the sadness has criticized the filmmaker Jerry, who has passed through the Kwai River Bridge River in a large, popular, spectacular adventure cinema, a huge and fuss erected. With a cinema, he chains Lawrence D’Arabet, Dr. Jivago, Ryan’s daughter or his latest film, India’s route, which will be a commercial failure. But a little bit forgotten how much David Lan was a distinguished story narrator and that his characters are often ambiguous and absolutely fascinating.

Alec Guis, in the role of his life

This is the case of Colonel Nicholson, who performs the excited Alec who finds the role of his life here, and who did not want to play in this film at the beginning, which he found that the story was very anti -British, before (and fortunately). The actor is entirely in the study of strong characters, doubled by nuanced and complex psychological analysis. Lean’s credit should be given this refusal to reduce manicism, which makes the Japanese enemy an abstract unit. The interest of the filmmaker is the confrontation between the two cultures, the two concepts of diametrically opposite life.

The 7 Oscar crown, including the best film, Kwai River Bridge is one of those multi-storey works, and that we always end up again for an indefinite period, never happened with happiness. And the whistle, EventuallyThis famous air, “La Marche du Colonel Bogey”, which is depicted in all memories …