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The Magic Box
John Boulting
- 1951
- Great-Britain
- Biopic
- 1h58mn
- Original version with French subtitles
- Color
William Freise-Greene, now old and forgotten, remembers the time when he was a photographer. He had discovered a way to project moving images and created the first movie cameras
A brilliant biopic about a major forgotten inventor, commissioned by the Festival of Britain, The Magic Box is primarily a powerful statement, an homage to the beginnings of cinema. Directed by one of the Boulting twins, major figures of British cinema almost as forgotten as their hero, played by a fabulous Robert Donat. The intimate approach and the artistic direction - Jack Cardiff’s photography is stunning - inherit the melancholy beauty of Emeric Pressburger / Michael Powell collaborations, bringing the film something really…magical. To be urgently rediscovered!
Screenings
06/09 • 18h45 • Screen 300
Screening presented by Jean-Pierre Dionnet
Credits
- With : Robert Donat, Maria Schell, Renée Asherson, Richard Attenborough, Robert Beatty
- Screenplay : Ray Allister, Eric Ambler
- Photography : Jack Cardiff
- Editing : Richard Best
- Music by : William Alwyn
- Production : Ronald Neame
