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Les Granges Brûlées (1973)

Drama | 95 minutes
3,02 28 votes

Genre: Drama / Crime

Duration: 95 minuten

Alternative title: The Burned Barns

Country: France / Italy

Directed by: Jean Chapot

Stars: Alain Delon, Simone Signoret and Miou-Miou

IMDb score: 6,6 (1.524)

Releasedate: 30 May 1973

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Les Granges Brûlées plot

A woman is murdered in a remote mountain village. An investigating judge follows the trail to a nearby farm, where Rose rules with a strict hand.

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AngelicV

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Masterful acting by Signoret and Delon. Chess game with insight into the French rural community and a surprising ending.

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An impeccably dressed Alain Delon, as a young investigating judge, must solve a robbery-murder in a mountain village in the Jura, near the Swiss border. He focuses on the family on the nearby farm, where Simone Signoret rules with an iron fist as matriarch.

So, a police film? It certainly starts that way, with a setup that portrays the youngest farmer's son Frank, an alcoholic slacker (Bernard le Coq), as the obvious prime suspect, so that anyone who has ever seen a whodunit knows that he is not the culprit. But director Jean Chapot is clearly not interested in making a suspenseful film, although Jean-Michel Jarre was apparently the only one not informed of this when creating the soundtrack.

Everything proceeds very quietly; there is not a single suspenseful scene. This is a film that thrives on atmosphere. The family farm, with a messiness and wear and tear that only comes from generations of habitation, is almost an extra protagonist. You can see the actors' breath condense during scenes in the unheated or barely heated rooms inside.

It is more of a combination of a family drama, of years of built-up tension that suddenly comes to the surface, albeit in a not-so-dramatic way befitting stubborn farmers, combined with a deconstruction of a police investigation that gets stuck due to tunnel vision. By today's standards, it could be a true crime podcast.

It is certainly recommended for fans of something like Anatomie d'une chute, also set in the French mountains, but that is a much better film. For despite the star-studded cast and strong atmosphere, Les Granges Brûlées is a very meandering film, where Chapot perhaps tried a little too hard to steer clear of dramatic clichés.

(Watched on Netflix)

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