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Our criticism of the Green Shutters: Depardieu without confession

2022-08-23T11:19:34.178Z


CRITICISM – The adaptation of Simenon by Jean Becker, last screenplay by Jean-Loup Dabadie, is a frozen and dated film.


Insurance must require it by contract.

For each film, Gérard Depardieu, whose lifestyle is not that of a vegan yoga teacher, undergoes a medical examination.

The directors, who are smart people, integrate the sequence.

After Patrice Leconte, whose short-breathed Jules Maigret was banned from smoking, Jean Becker opens

Les Volets Verts

with an examination and a clear diagnosis.

If Jules Maugin does not reduce his consumption of alcohol and women, his heart will give out.

From one Jules to another, we stay with Simenon.

A sacred monster never far from blasphemy

The Belgian novelist wrote

Les Volets Verts

in 1950, during his stay in the United States.

Jean-Loup Dabadie turns it into a screenplay - the last before his death - in 2020. Jean Becker (

L'Été murderer

,

Elisa

) directs it with Gérard Depardieu in the role of Maugin, an actor at the height of glory and at the bottom of the life.

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Source: lefigaro

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