Every day, AlloCiné recommends watching a movie (again) on TV. Tonight: Adaptation of James Hadley Chase’s novel “Orchid Flesh” with Charlotte Rampling.
In 1975, the child of the French theater, Patrice Chérault, tried his hand at cinema by adapting a detective novel. Orchid flesh British by James Hadley Chase. For his directorial debut, he benefits from a substantial budget and a five-star cast, including Edwige Failier and Simone Signore. Charlotte Rampling plays Claire, a revenge-seeking heroine who is always on the verge of sinking into madness.
Surrounded by his long-time collaborators (cinematographer Pierre Lomm and set designer Richard Peduzzi), Patrice Chereau takes cinematic materials and combines his love for live performance.
Coolly received by critics, shunned by the public, barely noticed by professionals (two technical nominations for the Césars: best cinematography and best set design), La Flesh de l’Orchid has the reputation of being a “cursed film”. Patrice Chereau himself denies this and prefers to consider “Wounded”, which was released in 1983, as his first film work.
however, Orchid flesh It is unique in its genre in the French audiovisual landscape: it is a brutal, sinister and poetic work, combining in shades of gray and blue the influence of German Expressionism, as well as the influence of John Huston and Orson Welles.
However, it wasn’t until the 1990s that Patrice Chereau managed to establish himself as a filmmaker, thanks to the dark and bloody retelling of La Reine Margot, and then the feverish ones I love will go by train.
Orchid flesh By Patrice Chereau with Charlotte Rampling, Bruno Kremer, Edwige Feuer…
Tonight at Arte at 20:55.
Source: allocine

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