176 Screencaps from La Terreur et la Vertu. Brought to you by estellacat and maelicia.

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Thus I wish to share with you the 1964 TV movie La Terreur et la Vertu by Stellio Lorenzi and Alain Decaux.

Ah, the 1960s! The glorious decade of the victorious left! When the revolutionary, republican and jacobin tradition reigned over historiography!... Long before Furet’s Reaction, which brought with it films such as Wajda’s "Danton", Enrico’s "La Révolution française", De Broca’s "Chouans", Rohmer’s "L’Anglaise et le Duc", Jacquot’s "Sade", Coppola’s "Marie-Antoinette" and the Supreme Being Knows What could be next. Meh.

But that is another story. Back to La Terreur et la Vertu.

I begin with screencaps, which were made by estellacat. I only uploaded them. :D (And yet, it was very, very, very long. >.> )

Maxime et Saint-Just	Robespierristes	Thermidor	Thermidor
Thermidor	Thermidor	Thermidor	Thermidor
Couthon, Robespierre, Saint-Just	Couthon, Saint-Just, Robespierre	Saint-Just	Saint-Just
Le Bas et Saint-Just	Le Bas et Saint-Just	Robespierre et Saint-Just	Saint-Just Discours
Maxime
	Chez les Duplay	Couthon, Saint-Just, Robespierre	Arrestation
Augustin et Maximilien	Élisabeth Le Bas
	Élisabeth et Philippe Le Bas	Dernier baiser, Élisabeth et Philippe Le Bas	À l'Hôtel de Ville.
		Philippe, Babet et leur fils.
	Saint-Just, Le Bas, Couthon, Maximilien et Augustin Robespierre
	Chez les Duplay	Éléonore et Danton
Maximilien, Éléonore et Monsieur Duplay		Maximilien et Éléonore	Lucile Desmoulins et Louise Danton
Fouché, Robespierre et Éléonore	Hanriot	Robespierre	Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen
Robespierre, Couthon, Collot et Billaud	La montagne	Le Bas	Le Bas et Élisabeth
		Le Bas et Couthon	Le Bas et Saint-Just
CSP			Retour de la Fête de l'Être Suprême
		Les Duplay et Robespierre
	Augustin et Le Bas, Hôtel de ville
Augustin et Saint-Just
Maximilien, Éléonore, Monsieur Duplay
Maximilien et Augustin.			Robespierre et Saint-Just

Comments

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Sorry about that... >___<;;

Really, it's only important to care about the opinions of people you respect, so it's quite all right.

On a completely unrelated note, I just saw "Les Mariés de l'an II," and it was the most absurd and farcical movie on (set during would be more accurate, because while it goes along almost like a crash course in the Revolution in the provinces, it's not really about it) the Revolution I have ever seen. Not that that necessarily makes it bad though. (To cut a very long story short, though it portrays everyone absurdly, the royalists are worse off in the portrayal--the Hébertiste in charge in the protagonist's city is even recalled by the CSP, while royalists do things like shoot innocent people in the chest and then steal their jewelry, and abduct people.) /digression

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Ah, well... it happens, I suppose. -_- Where did you find that movie?

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

>___<;; I found it on-line; there's a DVD version, so it's fairly easy to get ahold of.

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

That means you bought it...?

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Yes; there wasn't really any other way to see it, and besides, I knew that even if it turned out not to be very good, it at least wouldn't be counterrevolutionary.

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Aww, well. At least. Otherwise, I would just have said: "poor you".

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Why? It's absurd, but it's rather funny. And, as I said, despite the fact that revolutionary justice is somewhat corrupt in the protagonist's city, the other revolutionaries are loyal to their friends and their country and they're neither ugly nor austere. In fact, a lot of the Vendéens wore black and looked ugly, so... Not to mention being murderous, incestuous, and very bad at fighting--two aristos armed with swords are beaten by the protagonist with a wooden pitchfork.

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Woah. It's true that pro-revolutionary and anti-Vendéens/royalists movies once existed. I'm amazed. O___O What the bloody fuck happened since then?!?

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

The reaction happened. D: You see, before the revisionists got control, even fluffy romantic comedies could be in favor of the Revolution and nobody batted an eyelash. Now... >___>

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

A reaction really did occur, as surprising as it always sounds to admit. We should keep that movie has an example of the situation that existed before. It's almost too perfect. O.o

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Yes, evidently. The people don't seem to know it though...
I don't know that it's the best example; after all, in the epilogue the protagonist gets a title under the empire, but it's better than nothing.