Every day, AlloCiné recommends a film to (re)watch on TV. Tonight: just one of the greatest films of all time.
Be careful, masterpiece! To start the year, Arte hits hard by broadcasting Gone with the Wind, an absolute classic of American cinema. A long-lasting sentimental fresco (3h58 and not a moment of looking at your watch) led by Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable that you must have seen at least once in your life.
The monument Gone with the Wind, released in theaters in 1950 and whose famous kiss was an ordeal for Vivien Leigh to film, plunges the viewer into Georgia, in 1861. Scarlett O’Hara is a proud and determined young woman of the Southern high society. Courted by all the good people in the country, she only has eyes for Ashley Wilkes despite the latter’s engagement. Scarlett is however determined to change his mind, but at the reception of the Twelve Oaks, it is the cynic Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) that she attracts the attention…
Adapted from the only work by Margaret Mitchell, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1937, Gone With the Wind was a huge public success in France with more than 16.7 million spectators in attendance, the sixth biggest success of the year. history at the French box office.
The profession also saluted this monument of the seventh art by awarding it no fewer than eight Oscars, including those for Best Film, Best Director for Victor Fleming and Best Actress for Vivian Leigh.
More than 3 hours! These American films are long but you must have seen them at least once in your life
The choice of the Englishwoman Vivien Leigh to play Scarlett was not without causing some commotion. How could she understand as closely as possible the motivations of this proud Southerner, people protested at the time.
The South, however, did not have the worst reactions, still preferring a British woman to a “Yankee”. In order to immerse herself in this iconic role, Vivien Leigh read Margaret Mitchell’s novel as well as several books on the Civil War.
Want to start the year 2024 by (re)discovering one of the greatest films in the history of cinema? You know what you have left to do…
Tonight on Arte at 9:05 p.m.
The Top 5 declarations of love (with that of “Gone with the Wind”):