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Étoile sans Lumière (1946)

Drama | 88 minutes
2,72 9 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 88 minuten

Alternative title: Star without Light

Country: France

Directed by: Marcel Blistène

Stars: Édith Piaf, Serge Reggiani and Mila Parély

IMDb score: 6,3 (241)

Releasedate: 3 April 1946

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Étoile sans Lumière plot

The outwardly beautiful star Stella Dora (Parély) would have had to end her career with the arrival of the sound film if it had not been for a simple maid Madeleine (Piaf) who had lent her her singing and speaking voice, without becoming jealous of her success. However, Madeleine is no longer satisfied as a "star in the background". She also manages to make it into a star herself and leaves her beloved for someone else. But the sheen that surrounds the film world is deceptive.

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Two striking points in this film, made shortly after the end of WWII, which already shows influences from the States: the opulent apartment with the bottle of "booze" immediately at hand, the gala clothes, the careless handling of the cigarette, etc. .:

1. Going back to the period in which the "talking" film broke through and many artists from the "silent" period were left behind.

2. How film executives quickly realized that something could be achieved with "playback" and how talent often fell victim to all kinds of profiteers. Will always exist by the way.

Quite a stroke of luck this "Etoile sans Lumière", dated of course but cleverly told and emotionally performed and not by the first best: Serge Reggiani, extremely young, but already the typical style that would characterize his entire career, nightingale Edith Piaf (not with the best-known yet beautifully powerful chansons) whose discovery gave Yves Montand, already with the beautiful voice that will make him a top artist, a role.

I can watch a video like that every now and then.

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