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Ma Période Française
Ma Période Française
Soundtrack album by Maurice Jarre
Released	February 2005
Genre	Film music
Length	71:11
Label	Play Time

Head Against the Wall
Head Against the Wall
Directed by	Georges Franju
Written by	Book author:; Herve Bazin; Screenplay:; Jean-Pierre Mocky
Starring	Pierre Brasseur; Paul Meurisse; Jean-Pierre Mocky; Anouk Aimée; Charles Aznavour; Jean Galland
Cinematography	Eugen Schüfftan
Music by	Maurice Jarre
Release date	1959
Running time	95 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

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Head Against the Wall (Template:Lang-fr) is a 1959 French drama film directed by Georges Franju which stars Pierre Brasseur, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Anouk Aimée, and Charles Aznavour. Called The Keepers on its English release, the story follows an aimless young man who is institutionalized for defying his wealthy father, and in the process airs several questions about how society defines and treats mental illness.

Plot

François, motherless son of an influential lawyer, has no qualifications, and no job. To mix with rich and superficial friends, he has borrowed money that he cannot repay. In desperation, he breaks into his father's desk, steals his cash, and wantonly burns his legal documents. Rather than call in the police, with the connivance of a doctor, his father has him committed to an isolated psychiatric hospital in the country.

There, he discovers that many of the inmates are not seriously deranged, but that Dr Varmont, the head of the institution, is a man of rigid views. Two friends he makes are Lenoir, a criminal hiding from gangland revenge, and Heurtevent, a gentle epileptic. To his joy, on the first Sunday, he has a visitor: This is Stéphanie, a girl he met on his last night of freedom, who knows he is not insane and urges him to get a grip of his life. His father visits after he tells Dr Varmont he wants to be reconciled, but the meeting is a failure, and release seems remote. With Heurtevent, he breaks out, but when his friend collapses in an epileptic fit, the two are re-captured. In despair, Heurtevent hangs himself.

As the hospital cemetery is outside the walls, François plans another escape during the funeral. Lenoir gives him an address in Paris where he can get a bed and a job. Making a successful getaway, he calls at the address to find it is an illegal gambling den. Unsure if that is a world he wants to be in, he goes unannounced to Stéphanie's room, where she welcomes him, and they spend the night together. In the morning, two plainclothes men call, to be told by Stéphanie she knows nothing of his whereabouts. As soon as they have gone, François slips out, and, caught by them on the stairs, is rushed back to the asylum.

Cast

Pierre Brasseur as Dr. Varmont
Paul Meurisse as Dr. Emery
Jean-Pierre Mocky as François Gérane
Anouk Aimée as Stéphanie
Jean Galland as Maître Gérane
Thomy Bourdelle as Colonel Donnadieu
Jean Ozenne as Comte Elzéar de Chambrelle
Charles Aznavour as Heurtevent
Rudy Lenoir as the stashed
Roger Legris as Decauville the driver
Henri San Juan as the patron of the pool
Édith Scob as the crazy singer
Max Montavon as internal to the refectory
Luis Masson as the internal
Luc Andrieux as a nurse
Jacques Mancier as the man with the gun
Pierre Mirat as a guard
Henri Poirier as the priest
Jacques Seiler as a nurse

Soundtrack

Long after the film's original release, in February 2005, the French soundtrack record label Play Time released the soundtrack on compact disc, along with other soundtracks performed by Maurice Jarre. This also includes soundtracks from other Franju films, including Eyes Without a Face and Thérèse Desqueyroux.^[1]

Track listing

All music is composed by Maurice Jarre^[1]

No.	Title	{{{extra_column}}}	Length
1.	"Générique / Surprise-partie"	La Tête contre les Murs	4:30
2.	"Thème de Stéphanie"	La Tête contre les Murs	4:30
3.	"Enterrement à l'asile"	La Tête contre les Murs	2:44
4.	"Générique"	Eyes Without a Face	2:05
5.	"Thème romantique"	Eyes Without a Face	2:50
6.	"Filature"	Eyes Without a Face	1:23
7.	"Des phares dans la nuit"	Eyes Without a Face	3:32
8.	"Valse poursuite"	Eyes Without a Face	1:45
9.	"Final"	Eyes Without a Face	1:01
10.	"Générique"	Thérèse Desqueyroux	1:54
11.	"Non-lieu"	Thérèse Desqueyroux	1:35
12.	"Thérèse Desqueyroux"	Thérèse Desqueyroux	2:50
13.	"La femme idéale"	Les Dragueurs	2:36
14.	"La ballade des dragueurs"	Les Dragueurs	2:47
15.	"Surboum chez Ghislaine"	Les Dragueurs	2:01
16.	"L'oiseau de paradis"	L'Oiseau de Paradis	2:48
17.	"L'univers d'Utrillo"	Un court-métrage de Georges Régnier	4:44
18.	"Générique"	Le Soleil dans l'œil	2:28
19.	"Thème"	Mort, où est ta Victoire ?	3:30
20.	"Valse de Platonov"	Recours en Grâce	3:50
21.	"Les animaux (générique)"	Les Animaux	1:20
22.	"Pavane des flamands roses"	Les Animaux	2:43
23.	"La fête"	Les Animaux	2:18
24.	"Surf des loutres"	Les Animaux	1:59
25.	"Mourir à Madrid"	Mourir à Madrid	4:21
26.	"Générique"	Week-End à Zuydcoote	2:28
27.	"Sergent Maillat"	Week-End à Zuydcoote	3:10
28.	"Final"	Week-End à Zuydcoote	1:29
Total length:			71:11

References

^ ^a ^b "Anthologie 80ème Anniversaire" (in French). FGL Productions. Retrieved 2008-08-26. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |month= (help)

External links

[fglmusic-1] "Anthologie 80ème Anniversaire" (in French). FGL Productions. Retrieved 2008-08-26. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |month= (help)

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 * [[Jean Galland]] as Maître Gérane
 * [[Thomy Bourdelle]] as Colonel Donnadieu
-* [[Jean Ozenne]] as Comte Elzéar de Chambrelle
+* Jean Ozenne as Comte Elzéar de Chambrelle
 * [[Charles Aznavour]] as Heurtevent
-* [[Rudy Lenoir]] as the stashed
+* Rudy Lenoir as the stashed
 * [[Roger Legris]] as Decauville the driver
-* [[Henri San Juan]] as the patron of the pool
+* Henri San Juan as the patron of the pool
 * [[Édith Scob]] as the crazy singer
-* [[Max Montavon]] as internal to the refectory
+* Max Montavon as internal to the refectory
-* [[Luis Masson]] as the internal
+* Luis Masson as the internal
 * [[Luc Andrieux]] as a nurse
-* [[Jacques Mancier]] as the man with the gun
+* Jacques Mancier as the man with the gun
-* [[Pierre Mirat]] as a guard
+* Pierre Mirat as a guard
-* [[Henri Poirier]] as the priest
+* Henri Poirier as the priest
 * [[Jacques Seiler]] as a nurse

v t e Films directed by Georges Franju
Documentary films	Blood of the Beasts (1949) Hotel des Invalides (1951) Le Grand Méliès (1952)
Feature films	Head Against the Wall (1958) Eyes Without a Face (1960) Thérèse Desqueyroux (1962) Judex (1963) Thomas the Impostor (1965) The Demise of Father Mouret (1970) Nuits Rouges (1974)