"Le Star" Takes Center Stage: A Tribute to Lino Ventura

Four films selected from a rich filmography for the fifth edition of “La Renaissance fait son cinéma,” renamed “Le Star fait son cinéma” due to renovations at the Renaissance. With the support of the Cinéma-In association of Ramatuelle, represented by Jaqueline Franjou, and in collaboration with Studio Canal, the city of Saint-Tropez is organizing the fifth edition of the festival—renamed “Le Star fait son cinéma” in tribute to Lino Ventura—from November 2 to 5. Every evening at 8 p.m. at the Cinéma Star, the festival will feature four free screenings of Lino Ventura’s greatest roles, in the presence of his grandson Christophe Lasserre-Ventura, who is now president of the Perce-neige Foundation—an organization founded on Lino Ventura’s initiative that has been supporting people with disabilities for 60 years. *Le Fauve est lâché* (1959), a film by Maurice Labro starring Paul Frankeur and Estella Blain. Paul Lamiani, a reformed gangster, is asked to return to his old ways following the disappearance of secret documents of extreme importance. It is believed that they are in the hands of a friend of Paul’s. But the situation becomes even more complicated when Lamiani’s son is kidnapped. *Le rapace* (1968), a film by José Giovani starring Xavier Marc and Rosa Furman “Le Rital,” an adventurous mercenary, is hired by attorney Calvez—the éminence grise of a group of conspirators—to assassinate the president of a South American republic. The plan is to assassinate the current president in order to turn the former president’s grandson into a national hero; the grandson must join the hitman on the mission to justify his fame… *L’Armée des Ombres* (1969), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, starring Simone Signoret and Paul Crauchet France, 1942. Gerbier, a civil engineer, is also one of the leaders of the Resistance. After being denounced and captured, he is imprisoned in a POW camp. As he prepares his escape, he is rounded up by the Gestapo… Last Known Address, 1970, directed by José Giovanni, starring Marlène Jobert and Michel Constantin Marceau, an efficient and tough police officer, knows nothing but his job. A deputy commissioner with the Paris Homicide Division, he is transferred to a neighborhood police station following the arrest of a drunk driver, the son of a prominent lawyer. He is assigned a young assistant, Jeanne, who has resolved to devote herself to social causes and believes in the police force’s reformist mission. One day, Marceau and Jeanne are tasked with tracking down a man named Martin, whose testimony in a criminal case is crucial to dismantling the alibi of the accused—a local crime boss. Marceau quickly realizes that they’ve been given an impossible task…