SACHA GUITRY

Writer

A very prolific playwright, Sacha Guitry wrote more than a hundred plays and adapted many of them to film. A performer in almost all of his films, he is the author of a body of work, rich in thirty-three films, which includes Le Roman d'un tricheur (The Novel of a Cheat), Désiré, Mon père avait raison (My Father Was Right), Quadrille, Ils étaient neuf célibataires (They Were Nine Bachelors), La Poison (The Poison), Si Versailles m'était conté (If Versailles Were Told to Me), and Assassins et voleurs (Assassins and Thieves).
In 1914, Sacha Guitry stayed in Deauville. He met at the Normandy with a group of Parisians who had taken refuge on the Normandy coast. He organized a gala for the benefit of the war wounded.
Le Petit carnet rouge is the story of his stay in Deauville.

During the summer of 1956, Sacha Guitry (1885-1957) shot scenes from his penultimate film in Deauville, on the beach and in the Normandy Hotel. Diminished, directing the shooting from his wheelchair, the filmmaker found in Jean Poiret a rapid diction and a mixture of elegance and cabotage very close to what was his acting.

Traveling is mostly for annoying others once you're back!
Excerpt from Le petit Carnet rouge

 

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