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| １９７０年，フランス 原作：ドミニク・ファーブル（原作：美しい野獣/ハヤカワミステリ） 制作：パリ・カンヌプロ 監督：セルジオ・ゴッビ 脚本：ジョルジュ・タベ、アンドレ・タベ 撮影：ダニエル・ディオ 音楽：ジョルジュ・ガルヴァランツ 歌：ウォーレス・コレクション 上映時間１時間４５分（完全版：123分），イーストマンカラー・ヴィスタサイズ，仏語 公開１９７０年、日本公開１９７１年７月 出演： ヘルムート・バーガー（アラン） ヴィルナ・リージ（ナタリー） シャルル・アズナブール（ルロワ） フランソワーズ・ブリオン（ジャクリーヌ） アラン・ヌーリー（ディノ） エディット・スコブ（シルヴィ） マルク・キャソ（バンサン） 出生時の過去のため、自虐的で且つ女を虐める事でしか愛情を表現出来ない男と彼を愛する女との愛の不毛を描いた作品。 原作はフランス推理大賞受賞作。 新婚の妻に自殺されたアランは、向かいのアパートに住むナタリーと知り合い再婚するが、彼がナタリーにみせる仕打ちはひどいものだった。 私はこの映画で彼を知り虜になった！＆私好みの作品。バーガーがヴィルナ・リージの後ろに写る彼女の影を、両手でゆっくり愛撫するシーン，腰が砕けましたね。 ※仏語を話すバーガー・・・と思ったら、吹き替えでした。当時はまだ堪能ではなかったのでしょうか？？ It's a very stylish film - the photography was elegant and conveyed the mood of the story. The decoration of Alain's apartment was baroque, it was both seductive and foreboding and in this way reflected the duality of his character. I also liked how some of the scenes were played in near silence - such as the opening where the wife is driven to suicide. The film in some ways reminded me of certain aspects of 'last tango in paris' as it dealt with a destructive and disturbing relationship. The reason for Alain's behaviour ( his being born to a prostitute ) was interesting - but it was his vulnerability which gave Alain depth and engaged my sympathy despite his awful treatment of Nathalie. There were several scenes near the end of the film in which Helmut Berger expressed this side of Alain's personality with sensitivity and feeling. For example when he thinks Nathalie has gone missing and he has the telephone conversation with her and is driving around Paris to try and find her. There is a very powerful scene at the film's climax. When Alain, by now desperate arrives back at his apartment and discovers Nathalie waiting for him. They embrace each other with real feeling and tenderness. Up to this point Alain has continually manipulated Nathalie and behind almost every action of his we have sensed a calculating mind at work. His desire, not to love Nathalie but to control her - his displays of affection a strategy not real. However when they do embrace it seems that he does genuinely love her - and then we see the expression in his eyes and we know that he is unable to overcome his psychosis, he'll be compelled to destroy what he loves. I think it is this understanding which he cannot live with. He doesn't want to carry on so he kills himself as well. Then again maybe i'm wrong. We don't actually see Alain and Nathalie fall to their deaths so exactly how it happened is open to interpretation. Helmut Berger is of course beautiful in this role but it's his presence and talent as an actor which stand out. I also liked that 'un beau monstre' was filmed in Paris (I was born there) and Venice a beautiful city. Feb 2003 Dorian Leveque
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