Gervaise (Gervaise)

Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (347 items)
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Favorite Movies (898 items)
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Best Actresses in a Leading Role 1919-57, 1994- (73 items)
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Foreign Language Oscar Submissions - FRANCE (66 items)
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BAFTA - Best Film (66 items)
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Tres bon Clement. I like the naturialistic, full of details, sometimes histrionic, sometimes bizarre (Perier in his alcoholic crisis with the therapic glasses in his back, pesimistic, approach to Zola. At the end, the naif and sexy detail of little Nana adorning her dirty neck with a lace, announces another dimension, not sad, but evil and brilliant and ¿why not?, legitime.

Gervaise Macquart, a young lame laundress, is left by her lover Auguste Lantier with two boys... She manages to make it, and a few years later she marries Coupeau, a roofer. After working very hard a few more years, she succeeds in buying her own laundry (her dream)... But Coupeau starts to drink after having fallen from a roof, and Lantier shows up... A faithful adaptation of Emile Zola's novel "L'Assomoir", depicting the fatal degeneration of a family of workers, mainly because of alcohol.