Par
Laurent Renon
Published on
Jan 5, 2025 at 4:50 p.m.
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It is the Château du Bois Chevalier, in Legé, which served as the setting for the film God’s Thunder sixty years ago. Three months of filming in Loire-Atlantique and a theatrical release in September 1965.
In the casting: the illustrious and thunderous Jean Gabinthe star duo Michele Mercier et Robert Hossein (reunited again a year later Angelique, Marquise of Angels) and many residents of the neighboring villages of La Bossardière, L’épinais or La Gaillardière, who played extras.
Jean Gabin in the role of a veterinarian…
The director, Denys de la Patelièrechose this 17th century buildinge century surrounded by a large body of water, moats, woods and gardens, to serve as a home for Léandre Brassac, played by Jean Gabin.
This veterinarian, a temperamental and misanthropic man, shares his life with a German woman named Marie (Lillie Palmer). One day, in Nantes, he meets a young prostitute without reference (Michèle Mercier) whom he decides to move into with him, after getting rid of her pimp.
Recently broadcast by the channel until“this big screen adaptation of the novel Who takes me away of Bernard Clavel is a little classic full of fantasy, unfairly overlooked,” according to Clément Cuyer, journalist for Allociné.
Divergent opinions
If some spectators highlight the dialogues written by Pascal Gardenfor others, the replicas will never have the same flavor as those concocted by Michel Audiard at the same time.
And for Nicolas Didier, journalist from Telerama“Gabin does not save this bad drama with misogynistic dialogue”.
It should be noted, however, that God’s Thunder attracted more than 4 million spectators in theaters, on the 7the most seen film in France in 1965.
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