The best Maurice Garrel’s history movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Maurice Garrel’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Maurice Garrel.
Artemisia
6.7/10
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) was one of the first well-known female painters. The movie tells the story of her youth, when she was guided and protected by her father, the painter Orazio Gentileschi. Her professional curiosity about the male anatomy, forbidden for her eyes, led her to the knowledge of sexual pleasure. But she was also well known because in 1612 she had to appear in a courtroom because her teacher, Agostino Tassi, was suspected of raping her. She tried to protect him, but was put in the thumb screws...
Shock Troops
7/10
A French resistance group liberates some German prisoners. Turns out one of them is a spy.
Le Grand Paysage d'Alexis Droeven
6.5/10
When his father dies a young man has the choice to continue the farmwork of his old man who suffered because of the hard labour and all the regulations.
The Persians
8.6/10
Les Perses (The Persians) is a French TV movie adaptation of Aeschylus' oldest known tragedy, Πέρσαι (Persai). It was originally broadcasted in October 31, 1961. The play deals with the aftermath of the Persian defeat in the battle of Salamis (480 BC), which makes it the only Greek tragedy that deals with a real historical event.
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