Virtual Film Club

Program Type:

Film Club

Age Group:

Adults
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Program Description

Virtual Film Club

Each month we pick a culturally or historically significant film for library patrons to watch and discuss. Watch the film on your own time, then meet with our virtual film club to discuss the film on Zoom. Registration is required. Zoom Invites will be sent out via email.

Event Details

This month's film is Le retour de Martin Guerre (1982) by Daniel Vigne.

Additional Resources

GENERAL

Official U.S. Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AN8bS3bvlM

Original 1982 Trailer (all in French: no subtitles)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22THFCz1ac0
 

REVIEWS

Nicholas Bell, Ion Cinema (2019)

https://www.ioncinema.com/reviews/daniel-vigne-the-return-of-martin-guerre-1982-review

David Bax, Battleship Pretension (2019)

https://battleshippretension.com/the-return-of-martin-guerre-dont-act-a-fool-by-david-bax/

Hunter Lanier, Film Threat (2019)

https://filmthreat.com/reviews/the-return-of-martin-guerre/

EXTRAS

An account of Martin Guerre’s trial, as written by one of the jurists, Jean de Coras 1515-1572)

https://web.archive.org/web/20120211200749/http://faculty.virginia.edu/ajmlevine/544_filmhist/coras.html

Talking Pictures Trivia podcast (2021)  -- (58 mins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjxmXu2-61w

1956 performance of the opera ‘The Wife of Martin Guerre’ by American composer William Bergsma (1921-1994) – 1 hour 50 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07oJ8eUbnbo

The Curious Case of Martin Guerre~ History from Home (7 minutes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dfxU_nyScw&t=23s

also: on DVD – Sommersby. This 1993 film stars Richard Gere and Jodie Foster in a re-telling of the Martin Guerre story, updated to the years following the American Civil War.

Links accessed 2/4/2023