Tempête sur les Mauvents

Original title: Malaire

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Noguère, an old patriarch, is about to die and decides to confess at last to a priest. He once lived alone with his son Juste, who helped him to farm the Mauvents land. One night Noguère fir... Read allNoguère, an old patriarch, is about to die and decides to confess at last to a priest. He once lived alone with his son Juste, who helped him to farm the Mauvents land. One night Noguère fired at a couple of trespassers, hurting the girl and killing her fiancé. Giving Catoune, th... Read allNoguère, an old patriarch, is about to die and decides to confess at last to a priest. He once lived alone with his son Juste, who helped him to farm the Mauvents land. One night Noguère fired at a couple of trespassers, hurting the girl and killing her fiancé. Giving Catoune, the girl, the shelter of his home, Noguère was forced - however reluctantly it may have been... Read all

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There's a new wind blowing ,it's gonna be a cold cold one .

"Malaire " aka "tempete sur Mauvent " is one of Charles Vanel's most obscure films ; his part is not unlike that of Edmond T Greville's "le vent souffle" .

An offbeat melodrama,set in the mountain ,in the middle of nowhere : even when WW2 is declared ,the gendarmes have to come to fetch the drafted son ,who had not a clue about the world's history ; the war may be raging ,the farmer in his den will know nothing about it,except for the son's fifteen-day furlough where he depicts the first months of the war as the history books tell it :the funny war , the phoney war or the sitting war:little warfare action occured and it led to the French/English defeat ;no hint at the war in the story afterward, except that the son, presumed kill in action was a POW.

The central character is the patriarch , Noguère whose concern is his sheep breeding till one day he shoots on a girl who was running away with her fiancé;She was only injured ; he lies to her ,telling her her man is dead.

The story is predictable , but the atmosphere is troubling ,notably the baby's funeral and this enclosed place with this ominous name : "Mauvents = "mauvais vents "(bad winds) ?Charles Vanel ,excellent as usual, portrays a selfish greedy breeder who won't be satisfied till he owns everything. Andrée Debar's androgynous beauty adds to this wild tale, Noguère's confession to a priest ,which makes the whole movie a long flashback.