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Judex (1963)

Crime | 97 minutes
3,31 37 votes

Genre: Crime / Mystery

Duration: 97 minuten

Country: France / Italy

Directed by: Georges Franju

Stars: Channing Pollock, Francine Bergé and Edith Scob

IMDb score: 7,0 (3.198)

Releasedate: 4 December 1963

Judex plot

A mysterious masked man, Judex, kidnaps an unscrupulous banker and then turns his acquaintances against him. It turns out that Judex's father has something to do with the revenge on the banker. To heat things up even more, Judex decorates the banker's daughter.

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Judex / Vallieres

Diana Monti / Marie Verdier

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stephan73

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Delightful, but typical, French adventure film.

Based on the 1910s serial by Louis Feuillade. I haven't seen the original, but the film apparently follows the plot pretty closely.

The film looks beautiful, mainly due to the beautiful slow camera work, but also because of the beautiful sets and costumes.

As an actor, Channing Pollock is decent, but the eye-catcher is Francine Bergé, who plays a wonderful villain.

A very good film and will soon watch the second film in the set (Nuits Rouges)!

4*

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Dievegge

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With this remake, Franju paid homage to Louis Feuillade. After Fantômas, this director had been criticized for presenting a criminal as a hero. That is why he came up with Judex, a similar hero who fights injustice, although he does so by taking the law into his own hands, which makes him ethically ambiguous.

Even more ambiguous is Diana, alias the governess Maria, who disguises herself as a nun or in a tight burglar's outfit in pursuit of big money. This thief is the character that I find most sympathetic. Madame Jacqueline Aubry, widow and banker's daughter, is too much of a saint for this. The detective and the little boy who goes along on the quest are also fun.

White and black symbolize good and evil. Think of the dove of peace and the clothes of Jacqueline and acrobat Daisy. The latter is adeus ex machina, an artificial plot device.

Judex was a precursor to pulp heroes like The Shadow and Batman. He used modern technology, bordering on science fiction. How he causes the apparent death of banker Favraux without him even having to drink remains a mystery. Disguised as secretary Vallières he is unrecognizable. Diana was a precursor to Catwoman. In the early twentieth century, exciting adventures with disguises and double identities were popular. Such stories should be judged on their entertainment, not on their credibility.

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Roger Thornhill

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Personally, the pulpy aspect of this film appealed to me, with its fast pace, beautiful camerawork, clear good guys and bad guys (at least if you had figured out who was who and in what capacity), and likeable supporting characters. All those plot developments and disguises sometimes reminded me of Dr Mabuse der Spieler and the stories surrounding Arsène Lupin, which are certainly not bad references in my book. The dreamlike quality that characterizes Franju's masterpiece Les yeux sans visage rarely makes an appearance here, but in terms of entertainment, the film simply does a lot right as far as I'm concerned. And that circus performer (Sylva Koscina) who suddenly pops up could indeed be described as, well, a Daisy ex machina, but what a sight she is! Incidentally, this film is currently available on YouTube in an excellent transfer, but in the version I saw, the English subtitles consistently appear five or ten seconds after the French dialogue, so watching it does require some adjustment.

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