Catalogue Persistent Identifier
GENET, Jean (1910-1986). Translated from French to English by Bernard Frechtman. New York: Grove Press, 1958. Original brown cloth-backed boards. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, letter 'Q' of 26 lettered copies signed by Genet. The Balcony Jean Genet. First Image/Scene; A ‘Bishop’ sits in an armchair. Next to him, a young woman (‘Woman’) wipes her hands with a towel. There is another woman standing, around forty years old. She is madam ‘Irma’. She’s clearly agitated and asks to get paid.
APA Citation
Genet, Jean. & Frechtman, Bernard. (1958). The balcony. London : Faber and Faber
MLA Citation
Genet, Jean. and Frechtman, Bernard. The balcony / by Jean Genet ; translated by Bernard Frechtman Faber and Faber London 1958
Australian/Harvard Citation
Genet, Jean. & Frechtman, Bernard. 1958, The balcony / by Jean Genet ; translated by Bernard Frechtman Faber and Faber London
Wikipedia Citation
The balcony / by Jean Genet ; translated by Bernard Frechtman
| Bib ID | 2518938 | |
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| Format | Book, Online - Google Books | |
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| Uniform Title | Balcon. English | |
| Description | London : Faber and Faber, 1958 112 p. ; 21 cm. | |
| Notes | Translation of: Le balcon. | |
| Other authors/contributors | Frechtman, Bernard. trans |
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| Directed by | Joseph Strick |
| Produced by | Ben Maddow Joseph Strick |
| Written by | Jean Genet Ben Maddow |
| Starring | Shelley Winters Peter Falk Leonard Nimoy Ruby Dee Lee Grant |
| Cinematography | George J. Folsey |
| Edited by | Chester W. Schaeffer |
| Distributed by | Continental Distributing |
Release date | |
Running time | 84 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1,200,000 (US/Canada)[1] |
The Balcony is a 1963 film adaptation of Jean Genet's 1957 play The Balcony, directed by Joseph Strick. It stars Shelley Winters, Peter Falk, Lee Grant and Leonard Nimoy. George J. Folsey was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. Ben Maddow was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award. The film also credits the photographer Helen Levitt as an assistant director and Verna Fields as the sound editor.[2]
Plot[edit]
Shelley Winters plays the madam of a brothel where customers play out their erotic fantasies, oblivious to a revolution that is sweeping the country. When her old friend, the chief of police (Peter Falk), asks her to impersonate the missing queen in order to reassure the people and halt the revolution, she offers instead that three of her customers play the general, bishop and chief justice, all of whom have died in the revolution.[3]
Reception[edit]
Shortly after its release, the film was negatively reviewed by The New York Times' critic Bosley Crowther,[4] but favorably reviewed in Variety: 'With Jean Genet's apparent approval, Joe Strick and Ben Maddow have eliminated the play's obscene language (though it's still plenty rough) and clarified some of its obscurations. The result is a tough, vivid and dispassionate fantasy.'[5]
Genet The Balcony
Following the release of the DVD in 2000, Karl Wareham also reviewed the film favorably: 'The Balcony is recommended for those who like an enigma of a film, one that tugs at your subconscious long after the titles fade. It’s a film that reaches to the very heart of why our society works in the way it does, and presents unrelenting questions and dilemmas.'[6]
Preservation[edit]
The Academy Film Archive preserved The Balcony in 2010.[7]
See also[edit]
Jean Genet The Balcony Themes
References[edit]
- ^'Top Rental Features of 1963', Variety, January 8, 1964, p 71. Please note figures are rentals as opposed to total gross.
- ^The Balcony at IMDb
- ^'The Balcony (1963) - Overview - TCM.com'. Turner Classic Movies.
- ^Crowther, Bosley (March 22, 1963). ''The Balcony' Emerges as Labored Mockery'. The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-11-21.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^Variety Staff (1963). 'The Balcony'. Variety. Archived from the original on January 29, 2016. Retrieved January 6, 2009.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^Wareham, Karl (2004-03-17). 'DVD Times - The Balcony'. DVD Times. Archived from the original on April 26, 2005.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^'Preserved Projects'. Academy Film Archive.
External links[edit]
Jean Genet The Balcony Pdf
- The Balcony at Rotten Tomatoes
- The Balcony at IMDb