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New move wrold
Remaking a Pagnol film is asking for trouble. Film snobs will dismiss the remake without giving it a chance,though 60 years ago those same film snobs probably dismissed Pagnol as a film director, finding him
hopelessly inferior to Renoir or … Afficionados of Raimu, an unquestionably great actor – when he had a good role – will say that no one can do what he did. And they would be right; no one can out-Raimu Raimu. A force of nature, because Raimu at his best was a force of nature, cannot be imitated or equaled. But a role can be done a different way, even if the words are the same, just as different great actors can succeed at Hamlet or King Lear. And yes, I speak of Shakespeare. Theater/literature snobs can guffaw, but who cares? Letthem...
