The Grand Highway
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{{Infobox film
| name = The Grand Highway
| image = le-grand-chemin.jpg
| caption =
| director = Jean-Loup Hubert
| producer = Pascal Hommais
Jean Francois Lepetit
| writer = Jean-Loup Hubert
| starring = Richard Bohringer
Anémone
| music = Georges Granier
| cinematography = Claude Lecomte
| editing = Raymonde Guyot
| distributor = Acteurs Auteurs Associés
| released = {{Film date|1987}}
| runtime = 104 minutes
| country = France
| language = French
| budget =
}}
Le grand chemin is a 1987 French film directed by Jean-Loup Hubert. It was released in the U.S. as The Grand Highway, and was remade in 1991 as Paradise.
It won the César Award for Best Actor and Best Actress.
Plot
Louis, a timid nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Pelo while she is having her second baby. There Louis makes friends with Martine, the ten-year-old girl next door, and learns about life from her. His subsequent adventures run the gamut from delightful to terrifying, with a little "coming of age" (via a few glimpses of nudity) thrown in.
Cast
- Richard Bohringer – Pelo
- Anémone – Marcelle
- Antoine Hubert – Louis
- Christine Pascal – Claire
- Pascale Roberts – Yvonne
- Vanessa Guedj – Martine
Production
Le grand chemin was directed by Jean-Loup Hubert, and produced by Pascal Hommais and Jean Francois Lepetit.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/22/movies/film-the-grand-highway-childhood-in-france.html |author=James, Caryn |title=Film: 'The Grand Highway,' Childhood in France |date=22 January 1988 |newspaper=The New York Times }} The film was released in the U.S. as The Grand Highway, in French with English subtitles. Claude Lecomte served as director of photography, with camera operator Jean Paul Meurisse and film editor Raymonde Guyot. The musical score was composed by Georges Granier; the original soundtrack music was reissued in 2013 by Canadian label Disques Cinemusique.{{Cite web |url=http://www.disquescinemusique.com/liste-des-compositeurs |title=Le spécialiste de la musique de film au Canada |date=2016 |publisher=Disques Cinémusique }}
Reception
Richard Bohringer and Anémone won César Awards for Best Actor and Best Actress.{{Cite web |url=http://www.academie-cinema.org/ceremonie/palmares.html |title=Palmarès 1988 – 13 ème cérémonie des César |author= |date=2016 |publisher=Académie des César |access-date=28 December 2016 }} The film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film of the year by the U.S. National Board of Review.{{Cite web |url=http://www.nationalboardofreview.org/award-years/1988/ |title=1988 Award Winners |author= |date=2016 |publisher=National Board of Review of Motion Pictures |access-date=28 December 2016 }}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0093111}}
{{César Award for Best Actor}}
{{César Award for Best Actress}}
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Category:Films featuring a Best Actor César Award–winning performance
Category:Films featuring a Best Actress César Award–winning performance
Category:Films set in the 1950s
Category:Films set in Brittany
Category:1980s French-language films
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