NIGHT IS MY KINGDOM
(Discina) As well portrayed asitisin Night Is My Kingdom, blindness needs no plot, no villain, to make a story. I’m a little sorry it has one. Yet the; villain himself is well played (by Gerard Oury), and Georges Lacombe has directed the film with restraint. There are few moments of high drama, but the few are in key, and you may find that the film quietly haunts you. Night Is My Kingdom is the story of a locomotive driver who is blinded in trying to rescue his fireman when a steam pipe bursts. He’s at first unaware that he will never see again, and the story is mainly concerned with his difficulties in coming to terms with his blindness. As played by Jean Gabin with tight-lipped control, it’s an actor’s triumph-contrast, for example, the fine opening sequence, with the man of steel at the controls of his giant locomotive, ‘and his return from hospital to his own room, with a magazine he can’t read and a train whistling by outside his window. Other scenes are equally memorable, and there are many details, such as the wonderful use of the hands, one would like to mention. Opposite. M. Gabin is Simone Valere as a young, blind teacher at the school for the blind, where much of the action takes place-the relationship which slowly develops between these two is beautifully drawn — and there are a number of other well-filled parts,
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/NZLIST19560831.2.29.1.1
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 891, 31 August 1956, Page 15
Word count
Tapeke kupu
242NIGHT IS MY KINGDOM New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 891, 31 August 1956, Page 15
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Material in this publication is protected by copyright.
Are Media Limited has granted permission to the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa to develop and maintain this content online. You can search, browse, print and download for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Are Media Limited for any other use.
Copyright in the work University Entrance by Janet Frame (credited as J.F., 22 March 1946, page 18), is owned by the Janet Frame Literary Trust. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this article and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the New Zealand Listener. You can search, browse, and print this article for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from the Janet Frame Literary Trust for any other use.
Copyright in the Denis Glover serial Hot Water Sailor published in 1959 is owned by Pia Glover. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this serial and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the Listener. You can search, browse, and print this serial for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Pia Glover for any other use.
Log in