The film won the Golden Lion at the 17th Venice Film Festival in 1952.
The film tells the story of two children. The heroine is a little girl who escaped with her parents during World War II. In an air raid, when the heroine went to rescue her pet dog, her parents were both killed in an explosion trying to chase her. The heroine's dog was also killed in the air raid and thrown into the river by passers-by, but she chased the puppy's body to a village anyway. A family in the village took in the heroine, and a boy in the family got along very well with the heroine. In order to bury the dead puppy, the heroine becomes obsessed with the cross, so she asks the boy to help her find the cross. At this time, the boy's brother died, and the boy secretly stole the cross on the hearse. After his father found it, the boy planted the blame on the neighbor who had conflicts with his home. At night, the heroine also went to the cemetery with the boy and stole many crosses. The next day, when the people discovered that the cross was missing, the priest who knew the truth told his father who did it. The father was furious and the boy had to hide. A day later, someone from the police station took the heroine away and sent her to an orphanage. The boy begged his father to keep the heroine and told him where the cross was, but his father did not agree. In the end, the boy threw all the stolen crosses into the river, and the heroine went to the orphanage to find the boy's name and got lost.
The title of this movie is very tempting, but the content is very pale, which makes me a little disappointed. The content of the film is a story of "two little children have guesses", that is, the little experience of two scheming children in the turbulent times of war, without the slightest point of view. Of course, this film is still better than other art films, at least not so dull. But anyway, the story of two children looking for the cross made me feel so bored these 90 minutes!
The content of the film is also very simple, that is, the precocious children and the precocious love between them. The heroine's purpose is obvious. Although she has an innocent appearance, her heart is full of scheming. The same is true for boys. In order to keep the lovely heroine by his side, he is willing to do anything, even frame the blame to innocent people. It can be seen from this that the story of this film is an infant version of a genre film: the heroine is a charming demon girl, and the boy is a silly man tempted by beauty... . I am speechless writing this. Hey, that's the way the movie is, no matter how you shoot it, there are just a few ways to go, and this is exactly the case. Some people may think that this film is excellent, but I can only describe it once after reading countless films—general, that is, neither fresh nor interesting, and even less thought-provoking. The biggest advantage of this film is its advanced story mode, which is ahead of many later films, that's all.
The filming was pretty decent, the only thing that impressed me was the filthy environment in the film. Milk with dead flies, mice crawling on the dining table, prey after owls, all of them are disgusting. It turns out that the French rural living environment in the 1950s was so bad! Not much more advanced than other countries in the world! Of course, this may also be set by the director of the story to deliberately disgust the audience. But in general, the life of rural France before and after World War II was not very high, and it can even be described as "dirty, messy, and poor".
The cast of the film is impressive. The male protagonist Georges Poujouly and the female protagonist Brigitte Fossey not only look beautiful, but also perform their roles vividly. Especially the big watery eyes of the heroine Brigitte Fossey are really tempting! The others are all tricks and have nothing to say.
in conclusion. This is a very boring movie. In my opinion, it is very mediocre. It has no great advantages and no obvious disadvantages. It is ordinary. Also, there are a lot of comments online saying that the two kids are showing something of an adult and anti-war, but I don't think so. The search for the cross is really just for the funeral. What does it have to do with World War II and death? Their ideas are just naive and ignorant, so why think too much and over-interpret?
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2012-01-04
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