{"id":35198,"date":"2019-10-19T15:21:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T22:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=35198"},"modified":"2019-10-19T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T22:36:00","slug":"the-silence-of-the-sea-jean-pierre-melville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2019\/10\/19\/the-silence-of-the-sea-jean-pierre-melville\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silence of the Sea &#8211; Jean Pierre Melville"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1aaalesilencedelamerX5-e1571519810380.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1aaalesilencedelamerX5-e1571519810380.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"894\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35203\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/klymkiwfilmcorner.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/le-silence-de-la-mer-silence-of-sea.html\">photo via <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2015\/08\/the-essentials-the-10-greatest-jean-pierre-melville-films-260554\/\">The 10 greatest films of Jean Pierre Melville <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cLa Silence de la Mer\u201d (1949)<br \/>\nThis debut feature is a distant relative to the atmospheric crime films that would ultimately carve his name among the greats, yet even so, \u201cLa Silence de la Mer\u201d is vital in any conversation about Melville. It\u2019s a film that relies so heavily on narration, and is so spatially limited (taking place mostly in a single living room), that it should revokes its right to be cinematic but ends up being so regardless. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.criterionchannel.com\/the-complete-jean-pierre-melville\">The Complete Melville at Criterion <\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<p>\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1aaacaJPM-e1571500627568.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1aaacaJPM-e1571500627568.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"432\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35200\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/jewish-arts-and-culture\/247256\/jean-pierre-melville-100\">photo via<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Born\tJean-Pierre Grumbach<br \/>\n20 October 1917<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/leonmorin2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/leonmorin2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"leonmorin2\" width=\"496\" height=\"376\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/leonmorin2.jpg 496w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/leonmorin2-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B7FveGpDq8s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cL\u00e9on Morin, Priest\u201d in English \u2014 was Melville\u2019s sixth feature and almost the exact midpoint between early successes like \u201cBob le Flambeur\u201d (1956), about a gentleman thief organizing the heist of a lifetime, and \u201cArmy of Shadows\u201d (1969), his late-career masterpiece about the Resistance. Given his interest in the war, it\u2019s understandable that he was drawn to \u201cL\u00e9on Morin\u201d and its story of life during the occupation. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jean-Pierre Melville - interview (1970)\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Avz45nU-AJg?start=372&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<p>Le Samurai <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1aaalainSamurai.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1aaalainSamurai.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"696\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1aaalainSamurai.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1aaalainSamurai-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>photo via The 10 greatest films of Jean Pierre Melville \u201cLa Silence de la Mer\u201d (1949) This debut feature is a distant relative to the atmospheric crime films that would ultimately carve his name among the greats, yet even so, \u201cLa Silence de la Mer\u201d is vital in any conversation about Melville. It\u2019s a film &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2019\/10\/19\/the-silence-of-the-sea-jean-pierre-melville\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Silence of the Sea &#8211; Jean Pierre Melville&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}