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French term to refer to butchered films...

  • 15-02-2015 1:28pm
    #1
    MakeEmLaugh
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    Hi,

    Not sure if this will get any attention in the Francais forum, but...

    I'm trying to remember a term, which I think was part of the French film criticism of the 1950s (Cahiers du Cinema), which roughly translated as "damned film" or "condemned film" or something along those lines.

    I think heard it used by the American film historian Joseph McBride when talking about Orson Welles film The Magnificent Ambersons.

    It is a French term. Has anyone any idea what it is?!


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  • #2
    JJJJNR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,791 ✭✭✭JJJJNR


    merde ?


  • #3
    MakeEmLaugh
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    JJJJNR wrote: »
    merde ?

    No, it was a sympathetic term. It is usually used deferentially, to refer to films which merit respect as a result of having been mutilated, usually by a studio or someone else.


  • #4
    Eirien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17 ✭Eirien


    Not sure who said this, but I've read about “La splendeur des Amberson“ as being “un film amputé et charcuté“.


  • #5
    GrandmaBasil
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    un film foutu?


  • #6
    locteau
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    Bonjour,

    On dit que le film at été détruit, endomagé, abimé où bousillé

    Sébastien


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  • #7
    locteau
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    oh yea...... butchered is the same as well : Charcuté (and it's the same actually)


  • #8
    iroced
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    locteau wrote: »
    Bonjour,

    On dit que le film at été détruit, endomagé, abimé où bousillé

    Sébastien

    I read "charcuté", "mutilé" and "maudit" about this movie. The first two terms referring to "butchered" ;).


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