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Oct 3, 1997 · Audiard is especially fortunate in the way actor Kassovitz brings the correct combination of earnestness, timidity and bravado to the role of the simultaneously guileless and ruthless Dehousse.
A Self-Made Hero (French: Un héros très discret) is a 1996 French film directed by Jacques Audiard. It is based on the novel by Jean-François Deniau. Synopsis. The film is presented in the style of a historical documentary, with an elderly Dehousse narrating the events of his life, interspersed with interviews with other characters and historians.
The director of Un h éros t èes discret (1996), Jacques Audiard, is quoted in the press releases for this film as saying, ‘I remember very clearly the first time I read the book by Jean-Fran\’.ois Deniau, as it reminded me of why the 1944-45 period had always fascinated me.
In what ways is this notion exploited by Jacques Audiard in the film Un Héros très discret? 2. ‘The myth of Dehousse runs in parallel with the more general myth of la France résistante that developed around the nation as a whole.
Apr 6, 2016 · Two years after See How They Fall, Trintignant and Kassovitz were paired up again in A Self-Made Hero, where they embody lying, cheating, Resistance imposter Albert Dehousse at different stages of his life. In one scene, perhaps intoning the words of the man behind the camera, Trintignant’s character says: “The best, most beautiful life, is ...
Dec 5, 1997 · Audiard and co-writer Alain Le Henry, working from the novel by Jean-Francois Deniau, slip Albert into a circle of former Resistance fighters at the end of World War II and use the metaphor of...
This acclaimed French satire focuses on Albert Dehousse (Mathieu Kassovitz), a restless young man living in a small village, who longs to be a World War II hero but is denied military service...
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