A Walk with Love and Death

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A Walk with Love and Death is a 1969 American historical-drama film directed by John Huston and starring Anjelica Huston and Assi Dayan.[1] The screenplay was by Dale Wasserman based on the 1961 novel of the same title by Hans Koningsberger.

Plot

The story is set at the time of the 1358 uprising of the peasants of northern France known as the Jacquerie. Heron of Fois, a student from Paris, crosses territory devastated by the upheaval and the ferocious reprisals of the nobility. He meets with Claudia, the aristocratic daughter of a royal official killed by the peasants, and they attempt to reach Calais. In the novel, Heron's intended final destination is Oxford University while in the film "the sea" less specifically comes to represent an abstract freedom. While differing in their views of the Jacquerie – Heron sympathises with the exploited peasantry, and Claudia sees their rising as mindless savagery – the young couple become lovers. In the end, they fail to escape the chaotic violence around them but await death "strangely happy – we had stopped running from them and we had our hour".

Cast

Production

The film marked the screen debut of Huston's daughter Anjelica Huston.[2] It also marked the screen debut of Israeli actor Assi Dayan, son of Moshe Dayan.[3] John Huston plays the role of a noble who defects to the rebels.

Anjelica Huston had been in the running to play Juliet in director Franco Zeffirelli's adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, but John Huston withdrew her from consideration when he decided to cast her as Claudia in A Walk with Love and Death. Huston felt that she was wrong for the role, and has commented on the experience that her father "miscast me first time out and I think he realized that. I was ready to act, but I wasn't ready to act for him...I was difficult, I didn't want to act with no makeup, although I'd have done it for Franco."[4] Father and daughter had a fractious relationship on set, with the young Anjelica's having difficulty learning her lines and focusing, and her father grew more impatient and angry at directing her.[5]

Music

The musical score was by the French composer Georges Delerue. It incorporated medieval folk music themes, making extensive use of lute, harpsichord, and recorders.

Box office

The film was not a box-office success,[3] but John Huston noted in his autobiography An Open Book (1980) that it was highly praised in France, where there was a greater understanding of the historical context.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

According to Fox records, the film required $3,900,000 in rentals to break even and by 11 December 1970 had made $825,000.[6] In September 1970 the studio reported it had lost $1,637,000 on the film.[7]

Reception

Some contemporary reviewers considered that the film held up the past as a mirror of the events of 1968, when it was made.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Comparisons were variously made with the Vietnam War or the Paris rioting of May/June that year, which required filming to be relocated to Austria and Italy.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". However a recent and detailed analysis of both novel and film by the essayist Peter G. Christensen concludes that the story is literally a period one, intended to evoke the turbulence of its 14th-century setting rather than illustrating cultural or generational issues of the late 1960s.[8]

See also

References

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  2. ↑ A Walk with Love and Death at Allmovie
  3. ↑ a b [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1115409.html Long night's journey into day, Uri Klein, Haaretz
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