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La Mer (film)
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La Mer

Directed by
Louis Lumière
Produced by
Louis Lumière
Cinematography
Louis Lumière

Release dates
 1895

Running time
 38 seconds
Country
France
Language
Silent
La Mer (also known as The Sea) is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent documentary film directed and produced by Louis Lumière. Given its age, this short film is available to freely download from the Internet.
The film formed part of the first commercial presentation of the Lumière Cinématographe on December 28, 1895 at the Salon Indien, Grand Café, 14 Boulevard des Capuchins, Paris.[1]


Contents  [hide]
1 Production
2 Plot
3 References
4 External links

Production[edit]
As with all early Lumière movies, this film was made in a 35 mm format with an aspect ratio of 1.33:1. It was filmed by means of the Cinématographe, an all-in-one camera, which also serves as a film projector and developer.[2]
Plot[edit]
This 38 second film has a very simple plot in which five men dive repeatedly into stormy water. The men walk along a jetty and then dive into the water, only to then swim to the shore line and repeat the process again.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Salon Indien, Grand Café, Paris". Who's Who of Victorian Cinema. Retrieved 2007-04-05.
2.Jump up ^ "Technical Specifications". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2007-04-06.
External links[edit]
Complete video at The Lumiere Institute
La Mer at the Internet Movie Database
La Mer on YouTube


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Films by Auguste and Louis Lumière



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 La Voltige ·
 La Pêche aux poissons rouges ·
 The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon ·
 Les Forgerons ·
 L'Arroseur Arrosé ·
 Le Repas de bébé ·
 Le Saut à la couverture ·
 La Place des Cordeliers à Lyon ·
 La Mer (Baignade en mer) ·
 L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat ·
 Barque sortant du port ·
 La Charcuterie mécanique ·
 Bataille de boules de neige ·
 Partie de cartes ·
 Démolition d'un mur
 




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La Mer (film)
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La Mer

Directed by
Louis Lumière
Produced by
Louis Lumière
Cinematography
Louis Lumière

Release dates
 1895

Running time
 38 seconds
Country
France
Language
Silent
La Mer (also known as The Sea) is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent documentary film directed and produced by Louis Lumière. Given its age, this short film is available to freely download from the Internet.
The film formed part of the first commercial presentation of the Lumière Cinématographe on December 28, 1895 at the Salon Indien, Grand Café, 14 Boulevard des Capuchins, Paris.[1]


Contents  [hide]
1 Production
2 Plot
3 References
4 External links

Production[edit]
As with all early Lumière movies, this film was made in a 35 mm format with an aspect ratio of 1.33:1. It was filmed by means of the Cinématographe, an all-in-one camera, which also serves as a film projector and developer.[2]
Plot[edit]
This 38 second film has a very simple plot in which five men dive repeatedly into stormy water. The men walk along a jetty and then dive into the water, only to then swim to the shore line and repeat the process again.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Salon Indien, Grand Café, Paris". Who's Who of Victorian Cinema. Retrieved 2007-04-05.
2.Jump up ^ "Technical Specifications". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2007-04-06.
External links[edit]
Complete video at The Lumiere Institute
La Mer at the Internet Movie Database
La Mer on YouTube


[hide]
v ·
 t ·
 e
 
Films by Auguste and Louis Lumière



Cinématographe Lumière.jpg
La Sortie de l'usine Lumière à Lyon ·
 La Voltige ·
 La Pêche aux poissons rouges ·
 The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon ·
 Les Forgerons ·
 L'Arroseur Arrosé ·
 Le Repas de bébé ·
 Le Saut à la couverture ·
 La Place des Cordeliers à Lyon ·
 La Mer (Baignade en mer) ·
 L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat ·
 Barque sortant du port ·
 La Charcuterie mécanique ·
 Bataille de boules de neige ·
 Partie de cartes ·
 Démolition d'un mur
 




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The Sea (1933 film)
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The Sea

Directed by
Wanda Jakubowska
Stanislaw Wohl
Jerzy Zarzycki
Produced by
Edmund Byczynski
Narrated by
Gayne Whitman

Release dates

7 May 1933


Running time
 9 minutes
Country
Poland
Language
Polish
The Sea (Polish: Morze) is a 1933 Polish short documentary film directed by Wanda Jakubowska. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1933 for Best Short Subject (Novelty).[1]
Cast[edit]
##Gayne Whitman as Narrator (USA version)
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "The 6th Academy Awards (1934) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2012-02-04.
External links[edit]
##The Sea at the Internet Movie Database



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The Sea (1933 film)
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"Morze" redirects here. For other uses, see Morze (disambiguation).

The Sea

Directed by
Wanda Jakubowska
Stanislaw Wohl
Jerzy Zarzycki
Produced by
Edmund Byczynski
Narrated by
Gayne Whitman

Release dates

7 May 1933


Running time
 9 minutes
Country
Poland
Language
Polish
The Sea (Polish: Morze) is a 1933 Polish short documentary film directed by Wanda Jakubowska. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1933 for Best Short Subject (Novelty).[1]
Cast[edit]
##Gayne Whitman as Narrator (USA version)
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "The 6th Academy Awards (1934) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2012-02-04.
External links[edit]
##The Sea at the Internet Movie Database



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The Sea (2000 film)
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 This article includes a list of references, related reading or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (March 2013)

El mar
El mar poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Agusti Villaronga
Produced by
Isona Passola
Written by
Antonio Aloy
 Biel Mesquida
 Agustí Villaronga
Starring
Roger Casamajor
 Bruno Bergonzini
 Antónia Torrens
Ángela Molina
Simón Andreu
 Juli Mira
Music by
Javier Navarrete
Cinematography
Jaume Peracaula
Edited by
Raúl Román

Release dates
 14 April 2000

Running time
 113 Minutes
Country
Spain
Language
Catalan
The Sea (Spanish: El mar) is a 2000 Spanish film directed by Agustí Villaronga, starring Roger Casamayor. It is based on a novel by Blai Bonet. The plot, set in Mallorca, follows the fates of three childhood friends traumatized by the violence they witnessed during the Spanish Civil War. Ten years later, they are reunited as young adults in a sanatorium for TB patients. The film won the Manfred Salzgeber Award at the Berlin International Film Festival.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 DVD release
4 External links

Plot[edit]
In the summer of 1936, the violence of the Spanish Civil war reaches a small village in Mallorca. Four children: Andreu Ramallo, Manuel Tur, Pau Inglada and a girl Francisca are witness to the execution of leftists at the hands of pro-Franco villagers. In a desperate act of revenge, Pau, whose father has been killed the previous day by the lead executioner, plans to avenge his father's murder torturing Julià Ballester, the son of his father's killer. His idea is to force the boy to drink castor oil. However, things go wrong when the boy—Julià Ballester—taunts them and Pau becomes enraged. He brutally kills Julià by bashing his head against a rock and then stabbing him in the throat. Unable to deal with what he has just done, Pau commits suicide jumping inside a hole on a cave. The remaining children: Andreu, Manuel, and Francisa are witnesses to these tragic events.
Over a decade later, Ramallo, now a cocky young man, is sent to a tuberculosis sanatorium on Mallorca to recuperate from the initial stages of the disease. Ramallo, like all the tubercular and lung diseased patients, has to live in a large room, dormitory style. However, as a patient's health dwindles and they are expected to die, they are sent to a private room numbered 13 for their final days. Ramallo with his boastfulness and stories of sexual prowess attracts the admiration of the other patients particularly from Galindo, the youngest of the group.
Ramallo is shocked to find that Manuel Tur, his childhood friend, is also a patient. A pale and drawn man, Manuel has found solace to his health predicament in religion. Even more shocking is the sight of the beautiful Francisca, now a selfless nun, nursing the sick at the hospital. Alcantara, the brutal caretaker and Carmen, his unhappy wife, run the place. Shortly after his arrival, Ramallo receives the unwanted visit of Don Eugeni Morel his former boss in smuggling contraband. The well to do middle age Morel, has also sexually abused him for long time. Morel's visit makes Ramallo furious and from then on, he tries to disassociate himself from the crime lord. As a reminder than he can count only on himself, Ramallo gets his own name tattooed on his chest by Alcantara, the hospital's maintenance guy. In the clinic, Manuel has a pet cat that he dotes on. In a fit of anger Ramallo kicks the cat almost to death. Manuel gives the dying animal back to Ramallo to put it out of its misery. They bury the animal together and reconcile remembering their childhood friendship.
Ramallo wants to get rid of Morel for good, but his first attempt to steal some money from the church of the sanatorium fails when he is discovered by Francisca. As a child, she had a crush on him and now she is glad to see him again, but assures him that she is perfectly happy in her life as a nun. Ramallo starts scheming to hijack smuggling good from Morel. He recruits Manuel in helping him to steal the keys of Alcantara's car in order to go to the nearby port. In the middle of this dealing, Galindo's death affects Ramallo deeply. Carmen has a soft spot for Manuel and seduces him. At first Manuel tries to resist the temptation because she is a married woman, but she assures him that she is unhappy in her marriage and only feels disgust for her husband. They have sex, but when Manuel finds out that she came to visit him on Ramallo's suggestion, he tells her to leave him alone. Manuel angrily confronts Ramallo accusing him of being jealous of his purity. Ramallo leaves him silent telling him that his anger comes because he is secretly in love with him. In fact attracted to his friend, Manuel steals Ramallo's clothes but, in his morbid religious fervor, fights his desires that he believes are diabolical. Manuel's sexual panic turns into self-inflicted stigmata.
Francisca accidentally discovers Ramallo's schemes but does not turn him in, instead she travels with Manuel to recover from the cave in which Pau committed suicide, the items Ramallo stole from Morell. Ramallo escapes the sanatorium and returns to Morel's home. When Morell tells him that Manuel betrayed him, giving away the location of his purloined goods, Ramallo murders Morell with an axe. Ramallo returns to the sanatorium to take revenge on Manuel. Manuel tells Ramallo that he loves him and that he gave the goods to Moreel to fight his attraction for him. Ramallo begins to rape him, claiming that the pleasure will get Manuel torture for the rest of his life. Manuel plunges a knife into Ramallo's throat before slitting his own wrist. Francisca lays out the two bodies in the mortuary and removes her nun's coif.
Cast[edit]
Roger Casamajor - Ramallo
Bruno Bergonzini - Manuel
Antònia Torrens - Sister Francisca
Hernán González - Galindo
Juli Mira - Don Eugeni Morel
Simón Andreu - Alcántara
Ángela Molina - Carmen
David Lozano - Manuel Tur
Nilo Mur - Andreu Ramallo
Tony Miquel Vanrell - Paul Inglada
Victoria Verger - Francisca
Sergi Moreno - Julià Ballester
DVD release[edit]
El mar is available on DVD. It was released in the United States on December 14, 2004, in Catalan with English and Spanish subtitles available.
External links[edit]
El Mar at the Internet Movie Database
  


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The Sea (2000 film)
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 This article includes a list of references, related reading or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (March 2013)

El mar
El mar poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Agusti Villaronga
Produced by
Isona Passola
Written by
Antonio Aloy
 Biel Mesquida
 Agustí Villaronga
Starring
Roger Casamajor
 Bruno Bergonzini
 Antónia Torrens
Ángela Molina
Simón Andreu
 Juli Mira
Music by
Javier Navarrete
Cinematography
Jaume Peracaula
Edited by
Raúl Román

Release dates
 14 April 2000

Running time
 113 Minutes
Country
Spain
Language
Catalan
The Sea (Spanish: El mar) is a 2000 Spanish film directed by Agustí Villaronga, starring Roger Casamayor. It is based on a novel by Blai Bonet. The plot, set in Mallorca, follows the fates of three childhood friends traumatized by the violence they witnessed during the Spanish Civil War. Ten years later, they are reunited as young adults in a sanatorium for TB patients. The film won the Manfred Salzgeber Award at the Berlin International Film Festival.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 DVD release
4 External links

Plot[edit]
In the summer of 1936, the violence of the Spanish Civil war reaches a small village in Mallorca. Four children: Andreu Ramallo, Manuel Tur, Pau Inglada and a girl Francisca are witness to the execution of leftists at the hands of pro-Franco villagers. In a desperate act of revenge, Pau, whose father has been killed the previous day by the lead executioner, plans to avenge his father's murder torturing Julià Ballester, the son of his father's killer. His idea is to force the boy to drink castor oil. However, things go wrong when the boy—Julià Ballester—taunts them and Pau becomes enraged. He brutally kills Julià by bashing his head against a rock and then stabbing him in the throat. Unable to deal with what he has just done, Pau commits suicide jumping inside a hole on a cave. The remaining children: Andreu, Manuel, and Francisa are witnesses to these tragic events.
Over a decade later, Ramallo, now a cocky young man, is sent to a tuberculosis sanatorium on Mallorca to recuperate from the initial stages of the disease. Ramallo, like all the tubercular and lung diseased patients, has to live in a large room, dormitory style. However, as a patient's health dwindles and they are expected to die, they are sent to a private room numbered 13 for their final days. Ramallo with his boastfulness and stories of sexual prowess attracts the admiration of the other patients particularly from Galindo, the youngest of the group.
Ramallo is shocked to find that Manuel Tur, his childhood friend, is also a patient. A pale and drawn man, Manuel has found solace to his health predicament in religion. Even more shocking is the sight of the beautiful Francisca, now a selfless nun, nursing the sick at the hospital. Alcantara, the brutal caretaker and Carmen, his unhappy wife, run the place. Shortly after his arrival, Ramallo receives the unwanted visit of Don Eugeni Morel his former boss in smuggling contraband. The well to do middle age Morel, has also sexually abused him for long time. Morel's visit makes Ramallo furious and from then on, he tries to disassociate himself from the crime lord. As a reminder than he can count only on himself, Ramallo gets his own name tattooed on his chest by Alcantara, the hospital's maintenance guy. In the clinic, Manuel has a pet cat that he dotes on. In a fit of anger Ramallo kicks the cat almost to death. Manuel gives the dying animal back to Ramallo to put it out of its misery. They bury the animal together and reconcile remembering their childhood friendship.
Ramallo wants to get rid of Morel for good, but his first attempt to steal some money from the church of the sanatorium fails when he is discovered by Francisca. As a child, she had a crush on him and now she is glad to see him again, but assures him that she is perfectly happy in her life as a nun. Ramallo starts scheming to hijack smuggling good from Morel. He recruits Manuel in helping him to steal the keys of Alcantara's car in order to go to the nearby port. In the middle of this dealing, Galindo's death affects Ramallo deeply. Carmen has a soft spot for Manuel and seduces him. At first Manuel tries to resist the temptation because she is a married woman, but she assures him that she is unhappy in her marriage and only feels disgust for her husband. They have sex, but when Manuel finds out that she came to visit him on Ramallo's suggestion, he tells her to leave him alone. Manuel angrily confronts Ramallo accusing him of being jealous of his purity. Ramallo leaves him silent telling him that his anger comes because he is secretly in love with him. In fact attracted to his friend, Manuel steals Ramallo's clothes but, in his morbid religious fervor, fights his desires that he believes are diabolical. Manuel's sexual panic turns into self-inflicted stigmata.
Francisca accidentally discovers Ramallo's schemes but does not turn him in, instead she travels with Manuel to recover from the cave in which Pau committed suicide, the items Ramallo stole from Morell. Ramallo escapes the sanatorium and returns to Morel's home. When Morell tells him that Manuel betrayed him, giving away the location of his purloined goods, Ramallo murders Morell with an axe. Ramallo returns to the sanatorium to take revenge on Manuel. Manuel tells Ramallo that he loves him and that he gave the goods to Moreel to fight his attraction for him. Ramallo begins to rape him, claiming that the pleasure will get Manuel torture for the rest of his life. Manuel plunges a knife into Ramallo's throat before slitting his own wrist. Francisca lays out the two bodies in the mortuary and removes her nun's coif.
Cast[edit]
Roger Casamajor - Ramallo
Bruno Bergonzini - Manuel
Antònia Torrens - Sister Francisca
Hernán González - Galindo
Juli Mira - Don Eugeni Morel
Simón Andreu - Alcántara
Ángela Molina - Carmen
David Lozano - Manuel Tur
Nilo Mur - Andreu Ramallo
Tony Miquel Vanrell - Paul Inglada
Victoria Verger - Francisca
Sergi Moreno - Julià Ballester
DVD release[edit]
El mar is available on DVD. It was released in the United States on December 14, 2004, in Catalan with English and Spanish subtitles available.
External links[edit]
El Mar at the Internet Movie Database
  


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The Sea (2013 film)
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The Sea
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Promotional Poster

Directed by
Stephen Brown
Produced by
David Collins
 Michael Robinson
 Luc Roeg
Screenplay by
John Banville
Based on
novel The Sea by
 John Banville
Starring
Rufus Sewell
Natascha McElhone
Ciarán Hinds
Sinéad Cusack
Bonnie Wright
Music by
Andrew Hewitt
Cinematography
John Conroy
Edited by
Stephen O'Connell

Production
 company

Rooks Nest Entertainment
 Samson Films

Distributed by
Independent

Release dates

23 June 2013 (EIFF)
[1]

Running time
 87 minutes[1]
Country
Ireland
 United Kingdom
Language
English
The Sea is a 2013 British-Irish drama film directed by Stephen Brown. It is based on the novel of the same name by John Banville, who also wrote screenplay for the film.[2] The film premiered in competition at Edinburgh International Film Festival on 23 June 2013.[1] The film had its North American premiere at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.[3][4]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Reception
5 Accolades
6 References
7 External links

Plot[edit]
The story of a man who returns to the sea where he spent his childhood summers in search of peace following the death of his wife.
Cast[edit]
Rufus Sewell as Carlo Grace
Natascha McElhone as Connie Grace
Ciarán Hinds as Max Morden
Sinéad Cusack as Anna Morden
Bonnie Wright as Rose
Charlotte Rampling as Miss Vavasour
Ruth Bradley as Claire
Karl Johnson as Blunden
Mark Huberman as Jerome
Missy Keating as Chloe
Amy Molloy as Shop Girl (Sadie)
Stephen Cromwell as Young Tough (Mick)
Production[edit]
Producer of the film Luc Roeg said that "I've wanted to make a film of John Banville's haunting and soulful novel for several years and it's been worth the wait. I'm excited to introduce a new film maker, Stephen Brown, to world cinema and I couldn't be more delighted with the cast and crew we've assembled together with our producing partners at Samson Films."[2]
Filming started in September 2012 and finished by the January 2013.[5][6]
Reception[edit]
The sea premiered at the 2013 Edinburgh International Film Festival and received mixed reviews. Rating it at 7/10,the Screenkicker website said "intimate, superbly acted meditation on grief and abandonment that will make you think about how we cope with tragedy".[7] Marc Adams, chief film critic of Screen Daily wrote, "the film’s emotional still waters run deep and the film is gently watchable as a series of fine actors deliver nuanced and powerful performances."[8] Guy Lodge from Variety wrote "This good, middlebrow adaptation of John Banville's Booker Prize-novel sacrifices structural intricacy for Masterpiece-style emotional accessibility." And added "Afforded the least, but most searing, screen time are Anna’s final days, which economically imply longer-running problems in Max’s marriage. In a uniformly strong cast, a superbly terse Cusack cuts that little bit deeper as a dying woman who understandably has no time for her husband’s hovering pain." [9]
Local response was less favourable. Niki Boyle of Film List a Scottish web magazine gave the film two out of five stars and said that "Hinds and Rampling are suitably low-key, and character actor Karl Johnson puts in a decent turn as a more poignant version of The Major from Fawlty Towers, but the whole thing feels utterly derivative, from the contrast between the muted-palette and light-saturated flashbacks, to the spare, mournful piano-and-violin score."[10] Rob Dickie of "Sound on Sight", praised the performance of cast but criticise the pace and climax of the film by saying that " the pace is lethargic, there are no surprising revelations and the ending is horribly anticlimactic, meaning the strong performances and flashes of visual flair go to waste."[11] Ross Miller of Thoughts on Film gave it 1 out of 5 stars, saying that, "What could have been a fascinating and melancholic look at memory, regret and loss is actually a boring and monotonous character drama... a pretentious mess that's a chore to sit through."[12] Emma Thrower of The Hollywood News also gave film a negative review by saying that "A frustrating blend of wooden and naturalistic, it is a surprise to realise author John Banville is responsible for a screenplay that often unfolds like an overblown television drama. Rufus Sewell and Bonnie Wright also suffer in these laborious and often unwelcome instagram-filtered interludes, Sewell an incongruous pantomime villain and Wright an underused but ultimately ineffective screen presence."[13]
The sea also served as the closing film at "25th Galway Film Fleadh", at 14 July 2013.[14][15] IconCinema listed the sea at its Top 200 most anticipated films of 2013.[16]
Accolades[edit]


Year
Award
Category
Recipient
Result

2013 Edinburgh International Film Festival Audience Award Nominee  Nominated[1]

References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c d "Michael Powell Award Competition / World premiere". Retrieved 27 June 2013.
2.^ Jump up to: a b "Ciaran Hinds, Charlotte Rampling, Natascha McElhone, Rufus Sewell Assemble for 'The Sea' in Ireland". Retrieved 27 June 2013.
3.Jump up ^ Fleming Jr, Mike. "Toronto Sets World Cinema Film Lineup". Deadline. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
4.Jump up ^ "Toronto International Film Festival – Contemporary World Cinema". tiff.net. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
5.Jump up ^ "Natascha McElhone Joins 'The Sea' As Production Begins". Retrieved 2 August 2013.
6.Jump up ^ "Bonnie Wright in first on-set look from "The Sea", completes filming". Retrieved 27 June 2013.
7.Jump up ^ "THE SEA – REVIEW". Retrieved 29 June 2013.
8.Jump up ^ "THE SEA". Retrieved 29 June 2013.
9.Jump up ^ Lodge, Guy. "Edinburgh Film Review: ‘The Sea’". Variety. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
10.Jump up ^ "Restrained drama adapted from John Banville's Booker Prize-winning novel". Retrieved 27 June 2013.
11.Jump up ^ "EIFF 2013: 'The Sea' is a well-acted but lethargic exploration of memory". Retrieved 27 June 2013.
12.Jump up ^ "EIFF 2013: The Sea Movie Review". Retrieved 30 June 2013.
13.Jump up ^ "EIFF 2013: The Sea Review". Retrieved 27 June 2013.
14.Jump up ^ "Tasting Menu, The Sea bookend Galway". Retrieved 27 June 2013.
15.Jump up ^ "The Sea – Closing Film". Retrieved 19 August 2013.
16.Jump up ^ "Top 200 most anticipated films of 2013". Retrieved 27 June 2013.
External links[edit]
The Sea at the Internet Movie Database
The Sea at AllMovie
The Sea at Rotten Tomatoes


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Works by John Banville


Novels
Nightspawn (1971) ·
 Birchwood (1973) ·
 Doctor Copernicus (1976) ·
 Kepler (1981) ·
 The Newton Letter (1982) ·
 Mefisto (1986) ·
 The Book of Evidence (1989) ·
 Ghosts (1993) ·
 Athena (1995) ·
 The Ark (1996) ·
 The Untouchable (1997) ·
 Eclipse (2000) ·
 Shroud (2002) ·
 The Sea (2005) ·
 The Infinities (2009) ·
 Ancient Light (2012)
 

Short stories
Long Lankin (1970)
 

Plays
The Broken Jug (1994) ·
 Seachange (1994) ·
 Dublin 1742 (2002) ·
 God's Gift (2000) ·
 Love in the Wars (2005) ·
 Conversation in the Mountains (2008)
 

Non-fiction
Prague Pictures: Portrait of a City (2003)
 

Benjamin Black
Christine Falls (2006) ·
 The Silver Swan (2007) ·
 The Lemur (2008) ·
 Elegy for April (2010) ·
 A Death in Summer (2011) ·
 Vengeance (2012)
 

Screenwriter
Reflections (Adaptation of The Newton Letter for TV)" (1984) ·
 Seascapes (TV Film) (1994) ·
 The Last September (1999) ·
 Albert Nobbs (2011) ·
 The Sea (2013)
 

  


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The Sea
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Promotional Poster

Directed by
Stephen Brown
Produced by
David Collins
 Michael Robinson
 Luc Roeg
Screenplay by
John Banville
Based on
novel The Sea by
 John Banville
Starring
Rufus Sewell
Natascha McElhone
Ciarán Hinds
Sinéad Cusack
Bonnie Wright
Music by
Andrew Hewitt
Cinematography
John Conroy
Edited by
Stephen O'Connell

Production
 company

Rooks Nest Entertainment
 Samson Films

Distributed by
Independent

Release dates

23 June 2013 (EIFF)
[1]

Running time
 87 minutes[1]
Country
Ireland
 United Kingdom
Language
English
The Sea is a 2013 British-Irish drama film directed by Stephen Brown. It is based on the novel of the same name by John Banville, who also wrote screenplay for the film.[2] The film premiered in competition at Edinburgh International Film Festival on 23 June 2013.[1] The film had its North American premiere at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.[3][4]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Reception
5 Accolades
6 References
7 External links

Plot[edit]
The story of a man who returns to the sea where he spent his childhood summers in search of peace following the death of his wife.
Cast[edit]
Rufus Sewell as Carlo Grace
Natascha McElhone as Connie Grace
Ciarán Hinds as Max Morden
Sinéad Cusack as Anna Morden
Bonnie Wright as Rose
Charlotte Rampling as Miss Vavasour
Ruth Bradley as Claire
Karl Johnson as Blunden
Mark Huberman as Jerome
Missy Keating as Chloe
Amy Molloy as Shop Girl (Sadie)
Stephen Cromwell as Young Tough (Mick)
Production[edit]
Producer of the film Luc Roeg said that "I've wanted to make a film of John Banville's haunting and soulful novel for several years and it's been worth the wait. I'm excited to introduce a new film maker, Stephen Brown, to world cinema and I couldn't be more delighted with the cast and crew we've assembled together with our producing partners at Samson Films."[2]
Filming started in September 2012 and finished by the January 2013.[5][6]
Reception[edit]
The sea premiered at the 2013 Edinburgh International Film Festival and received mixed reviews. Rating it at 7/10,the Screenkicker website said "intimate, superbly acted meditation on grief and abandonment that will make you think about how we cope with tragedy".[7] Marc Adams, chief film critic of Screen Daily wrote, "the film’s emotional still waters run deep and the film is gently watchable as a series of fine actors deliver nuanced and powerful performances."[8] Guy Lodge from Variety wrote "This good, middlebrow adaptation of John Banville's Booker Prize-novel sacrifices structural intricacy for Masterpiece-style emotional accessibility." And added "Afforded the least, but most searing, screen time are Anna’s final days, which economically imply longer-running problems in Max’s marriage. In a uniformly strong cast, a superbly terse Cusack cuts that little bit deeper as a dying woman who understandably has no time for her husband’s hovering pain." [9]
Local response was less favourable. Niki Boyle of Film List a Scottish web magazine gave the film two out of five stars and said that "Hinds and Rampling are suitably low-key, and character actor Karl Johnson puts in a decent turn as a more poignant version of The Major from Fawlty Towers, but the whole thing feels utterly derivative, from the contrast between the muted-palette and light-saturated flashbacks, to the spare, mournful piano-and-violin score."[10] Rob Dickie of "Sound on Sight", praised the performance of cast but criticise the pace and climax of the film by saying that " the pace is lethargic, there are no surprising revelations and the ending is horribly anticlimactic, meaning the strong performances and flashes of visual flair go to waste."[11] Ross Miller of Thoughts on Film gave it 1 out of 5 stars, saying that, "What could have been a fascinating and melancholic look at memory, regret and loss is actually a boring and monotonous character drama... a pretentious mess that's a chore to sit through."[12] Emma Thrower of The Hollywood News also gave film a negative review by saying that "A frustrating blend of wooden and naturalistic, it is a surprise to realise author John Banville is responsible for a screenplay that often unfolds like an overblown television drama. Rufus Sewell and Bonnie Wright also suffer in these laborious and often unwelcome instagram-filtered interludes, Sewell an incongruous pantomime villain and Wright an underused but ultimately ineffective screen presence."[13]
The sea also served as the closing film at "25th Galway Film Fleadh", at 14 July 2013.[14][15] IconCinema listed the sea at its Top 200 most anticipated films of 2013.[16]
Accolades[edit]


Year
Award
Category
Recipient
Result

2013 Edinburgh International Film Festival Audience Award Nominee  Nominated[1]

References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c d "Michael Powell Award Competition / World premiere". Retrieved 27 June 2013.
2.^ Jump up to: a b "Ciaran Hinds, Charlotte Rampling, Natascha McElhone, Rufus Sewell Assemble for 'The Sea' in Ireland". Retrieved 27 June 2013.
3.Jump up ^ Fleming Jr, Mike. "Toronto Sets World Cinema Film Lineup". Deadline. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
4.Jump up ^ "Toronto International Film Festival – Contemporary World Cinema". tiff.net. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
5.Jump up ^ "Natascha McElhone Joins 'The Sea' As Production Begins". Retrieved 2 August 2013.
6.Jump up ^ "Bonnie Wright in first on-set look from "The Sea", completes filming". Retrieved 27 June 2013.
7.Jump up ^ "THE SEA – REVIEW". Retrieved 29 June 2013.
8.Jump up ^ "THE SEA". Retrieved 29 June 2013.
9.Jump up ^ Lodge, Guy. "Edinburgh Film Review: ‘The Sea’". Variety. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
10.Jump up ^ "Restrained drama adapted from John Banville's Booker Prize-winning novel". Retrieved 27 June 2013.
11.Jump up ^ "EIFF 2013: 'The Sea' is a well-acted but lethargic exploration of memory". Retrieved 27 June 2013.
12.Jump up ^ "EIFF 2013: The Sea Movie Review". Retrieved 30 June 2013.
13.Jump up ^ "EIFF 2013: The Sea Review". Retrieved 27 June 2013.
14.Jump up ^ "Tasting Menu, The Sea bookend Galway". Retrieved 27 June 2013.
15.Jump up ^ "The Sea – Closing Film". Retrieved 19 August 2013.
16.Jump up ^ "Top 200 most anticipated films of 2013". Retrieved 27 June 2013.
External links[edit]
The Sea at the Internet Movie Database
The Sea at AllMovie
The Sea at Rotten Tomatoes


[hide]
v ·
 t ·
 e
 
Works by John Banville


Novels
Nightspawn (1971) ·
 Birchwood (1973) ·
 Doctor Copernicus (1976) ·
 Kepler (1981) ·
 The Newton Letter (1982) ·
 Mefisto (1986) ·
 The Book of Evidence (1989) ·
 Ghosts (1993) ·
 Athena (1995) ·
 The Ark (1996) ·
 The Untouchable (1997) ·
 Eclipse (2000) ·
 Shroud (2002) ·
 The Sea (2005) ·
 The Infinities (2009) ·
 Ancient Light (2012)
 

Short stories
Long Lankin (1970)
 

Plays
The Broken Jug (1994) ·
 Seachange (1994) ·
 Dublin 1742 (2002) ·
 God's Gift (2000) ·
 Love in the Wars (2005) ·
 Conversation in the Mountains (2008)
 

Non-fiction
Prague Pictures: Portrait of a City (2003)
 

Benjamin Black
Christine Falls (2006) ·
 The Silver Swan (2007) ·
 The Lemur (2008) ·
 Elegy for April (2010) ·
 A Death in Summer (2011) ·
 Vengeance (2012)
 

Screenwriter
Reflections (Adaptation of The Newton Letter for TV)" (1984) ·
 Seascapes (TV Film) (1994) ·
 The Last September (1999) ·
 Albert Nobbs (2011) ·
 The Sea (2013)
 

  


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The Sea (novel)
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The Sea
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The Sea book cover

Author
John Banville
Country
Ireland
Language
English
Genre
Novel
Publisher
Picador

Publication date
 3 June 2005
Media type
Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages
200 pp (hardcover)
ISBN
0-330-48328-5
OCLC
60419387
The Sea (2005) is the eighteenth novel by Irish writer John Banville. It won the 2005 Man Booker Prize.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot summary
2 Development
3 Awards and nominations
4 Adaptations
5 References
6 External links

Plot summary[edit]
The story is told by Max Morden, a self-aware, retired art historian attempting to reconcile himself to the deaths of those whom he loved as a child and as an adult.
The novel is written as a reflective journal; the setting always in flux, wholly dependent upon the topic or theme Max feels to write about. Despite the constant fluctuations, Max returns to three settings: his childhood memories of the Graces—a wealthy middle-class family living in a rented cottage home, the "Cedars"—during the summer holidays; the months leading up to the death of his wife, Anna; and his present stay at the Cedars cottage home in Ballyless—where he has retreated since Anna's death. These three settings are heavily diced and impromptly jumbled together for the novel's entire duration.
Max's final days with Anna were awkward; Max does not know how to act with his soon-to-be-dead wife. Scenes of Anna's dying days are more full of commentary than with actual details, as are most of the novel's settings. It's through these commentaries that we learn of Max's choice to return to the cottage of his childhood memories (after Anna's death), confirming that a room would be available for residence during a visit with his adult daughter, Claire.
We learn of the Cedars' current house-maid, Miss Vavasour, and her other tenant: a retired army Colonel, often described as a background character (even during his important role in the denouement). The Colonel is also seen, at the beginning of Max's stay, to have a crush on Miss Vavasour; Max suspects Miss Vavasour had entertained the Colonel's slight infatuation prior to Max's own arrival.
Despite the actual present day setting of the novel (everything is written by Max, after Anna's death, while he stays in the Cedars home), the underlying motivation to Max's redaction of memories, the single setting which ties the novel together, are Max's childhood memories. With Max's unreliable, unorganised and omitted iteration of events, we gradually learn the names of the Graces: Chloe, the wild daughter; Myles, the mute brother; Connie, the mother; Carlo, the father; and finally the twins' nursemaid, Rose. After brief encounters, and fruitless moments of curiosity, Max becomes infatuated with Connie Grace upon first sight; seeing her lounging at the beach launches him to acquaint Chloe and Myles in, what Max stipulates to have been a conscious effort to get inside the Cedars, hence, closer to Mrs. Grace. He succeeds. Later, Max recounts being invited on a picnic—for what reasons or what specific time during the summer is never explicitly stated—where Max, in awe, catches an unkempt glance at her pelvic area. This day of "illicit invitation" climaxes when Max is pulled to the ground, and snuggled closely with Connie and Rose in a game of hide-and-seek.
The latter half of his summer memories (the relation of Max's memories in the second part of the novel), however, revolve around Max's awkward relationship with Chloe: a girl with a spastic personality and blunt demeanor whom Max describes as one who "[does] not play, on her own or otherwise". Chloe is shown as a volatile character: flagrantly kissing Max in a Cinema, rough-housing with her brother Myles, and what was hinted as hypersexuality earlier, is quite possibly confirmed as hypersexuality in the book's final moments.
We soon learn that Chloe and Myles like to tease Rose, who is young and timid enough to feel bullied. Max, another day, climbs a tree in the yard of the Ceders house, and soon spots Rose crying not too far from him. Mrs. Grace soon emerges, comforting Rose. Max overhears (rather, Max remembers overhearing) key words from their conversation: "love him" and "Mr. Grace". Assuming this to mean Rose and Mr. Grace are having an affair, he tells Chloe and Myles. The ending of the book entwines the exact moment of Anna's death with Chloe and Myles drowning in the sea itself as Max and Rose look on. Max, done with his childhood memories, offers a final memory of a near-death episode while he was inebriated. The Colonel does not physically save Max, rather finds him knocked unconscious by a rock (from a drunken stumble). His daughter scolds him at the hospital, assumingly being told he nearly killed himself, and tells him to come home with her. It is revealed at this point that Miss Vavasour is Rose herself and she was in love with Mrs. Grace. Max finishes with a redaction of himself standing in the sea after Anna's death (an allegory is made between crashing waves and tumultuous periods of his life). We are to assume that he will leave the Cedars' home to be cared for by his daughter, Claire.
Development[edit]
Banville himself has described the book as "a direct return to my childhood, to when I was ten or so. The book is set in a fictionalized Rosslare, the seaside village where we went every summer as children. Looking back now it seems idyllic, though I’m sure ninety-five percent of the experience was absolute, grinding boredom." The book also began in the third person - "Shroud was the latest in a series of novels of mine in the first person, all of them about men in trouble. I knew I had to find a new direction. So I started to write The Sea in the third person. It was going to be very short, seventy pages or so, and solely about childhood holidays at the seaside—very bare. I worked on it for about eighteen months, but I couldn’t get it to work. And then, out of nowhere, the first-person narrative voice made itself heard again.[1]" The Sea was completed in September 2004.
Awards and nominations[edit]
The novel won the Man Booker Prize for 2005. The selection of The Sea for the Booker Prize was a satisfying victory for Banville, as his novel The Book of Evidence was shortlisted in 1989 but lost to The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. Ishiguro was again on the shortlist in 2005 with his novel Never Let Me Go. In fact it was reported in The Times that they had whittled the shortlist down to those two novels and it was only the chair John Sutherland's casting vote that decided the winner. The choice of Banville as winner of the award was not seen as a populist choice, causing Banville to retort, "If they give me the bloody prize, why can't they say nice things about me?" [2] Banville's surprise win was described by Boyd Tonkin as "possibly the most perverse decision in the history of the award",[3] though others defended the choice, citing the lyrical, stylistic prose as making the book worthy of the award.[4]
In his acceptance speech Banville state his pleasure that a work of art had won the prize, a statement that saw him being accused of arrogance. He later added, "Whether The Sea is a successful work of art is not for me to say, but a work of art is what I set out to make. The kind of novels that I write very rarely win the Man Booker Prize, which in general promotes good, middlebrow fiction."[1]
Adaptations[edit]
Main article: The Sea (2013 film)
A film adaptation has been shot, with Banville having penned the script. The movie is directed by Stephen Brown and stars Ciarán Hinds (Max Morden), Rufus Sewell (Carlo Grace), Charlotte Rampling (Miss Vavasour), and Natascha McElhone (Connie Grace). The film is produced by Luc Roeg, scored by Andrew Hewitt, with cinematography by John Conroy.
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b McKeon, Belinda. "John Banville, The Art of Fiction No. 200". The Paris Review.
2.Jump up ^ "John Banville". The Guardian. 10 June 2008. Retrieved 10 June 2008.
3.Jump up ^ Crown, Sarah (10 October 2005). "Banville scoops the Booker". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 October 2005.
4.Jump up ^ Ezard, John (11 October 2005). "Irish stylist springs Booker surprise". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 October 2005.
External links[edit]
Chapter 1 extract from The Guardian (10 August 2005). Retrieved on 12 August 2008.
The Sea at the Internet Movie Database

Awards
Preceded by
The Line of Beauty Man Booker Prize recipient
2005 Succeeded by
The Inheritance of Loss


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Works by John Banville


Novels
Nightspawn (1971) ·
 Birchwood (1973) ·
 Doctor Copernicus (1976) ·
 Kepler (1981) ·
 The Newton Letter (1982) ·
 Mefisto (1986) ·
 The Book of Evidence (1989) ·
 Ghosts (1993) ·
 Athena (1995) ·
 The Ark (1996) ·
 The Untouchable (1997) ·
 Eclipse (2000) ·
 Shroud (2002) ·
 The Sea (2005) ·
 The Infinities (2009) ·
 Ancient Light (2012)
 

Short stories
Long Lankin (1970)
 

Plays
The Broken Jug (1994) ·
 Seachange (1994) ·
 Dublin 1742 (2002) ·
 God's Gift (2000) ·
 Love in the Wars (2005) ·
 Conversation in the Mountains (2008)
 

Non-fiction
Prague Pictures: Portrait of a City (2003)
 

Benjamin Black
Christine Falls (2006) ·
 The Silver Swan (2007) ·
 The Lemur (2008) ·
 Elegy for April (2010) ·
 A Death in Summer (2011) ·
 Vengeance (2012)
 

Screenwriter
Reflections (Adaptation of The Newton Letter for TV)" (1984) ·
 Seascapes (TV Film) (1994) ·
 The Last September (1999) ·
 Albert Nobbs (2011) ·
 The Sea (2013)
 

  


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The Sea (novel)
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The Sea
The Sea John Banville.jpg
The Sea book cover

Author
John Banville
Country
Ireland
Language
English
Genre
Novel
Publisher
Picador

Publication date
 3 June 2005
Media type
Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages
200 pp (hardcover)
ISBN
0-330-48328-5
OCLC
60419387
The Sea (2005) is the eighteenth novel by Irish writer John Banville. It won the 2005 Man Booker Prize.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot summary
2 Development
3 Awards and nominations
4 Adaptations
5 References
6 External links

Plot summary[edit]
The story is told by Max Morden, a self-aware, retired art historian attempting to reconcile himself to the deaths of those whom he loved as a child and as an adult.
The novel is written as a reflective journal; the setting always in flux, wholly dependent upon the topic or theme Max feels to write about. Despite the constant fluctuations, Max returns to three settings: his childhood memories of the Graces—a wealthy middle-class family living in a rented cottage home, the "Cedars"—during the summer holidays; the months leading up to the death of his wife, Anna; and his present stay at the Cedars cottage home in Ballyless—where he has retreated since Anna's death. These three settings are heavily diced and impromptly jumbled together for the novel's entire duration.
Max's final days with Anna were awkward; Max does not know how to act with his soon-to-be-dead wife. Scenes of Anna's dying days are more full of commentary than with actual details, as are most of the novel's settings. It's through these commentaries that we learn of Max's choice to return to the cottage of his childhood memories (after Anna's death), confirming that a room would be available for residence during a visit with his adult daughter, Claire.
We learn of the Cedars' current house-maid, Miss Vavasour, and her other tenant: a retired army Colonel, often described as a background character (even during his important role in the denouement). The Colonel is also seen, at the beginning of Max's stay, to have a crush on Miss Vavasour; Max suspects Miss Vavasour had entertained the Colonel's slight infatuation prior to Max's own arrival.
Despite the actual present day setting of the novel (everything is written by Max, after Anna's death, while he stays in the Cedars home), the underlying motivation to Max's redaction of memories, the single setting which ties the novel together, are Max's childhood memories. With Max's unreliable, unorganised and omitted iteration of events, we gradually learn the names of the Graces: Chloe, the wild daughter; Myles, the mute brother; Connie, the mother; Carlo, the father; and finally the twins' nursemaid, Rose. After brief encounters, and fruitless moments of curiosity, Max becomes infatuated with Connie Grace upon first sight; seeing her lounging at the beach launches him to acquaint Chloe and Myles in, what Max stipulates to have been a conscious effort to get inside the Cedars, hence, closer to Mrs. Grace. He succeeds. Later, Max recounts being invited on a picnic—for what reasons or what specific time during the summer is never explicitly stated—where Max, in awe, catches an unkempt glance at her pelvic area. This day of "illicit invitation" climaxes when Max is pulled to the ground, and snuggled closely with Connie and Rose in a game of hide-and-seek.
The latter half of his summer memories (the relation of Max's memories in the second part of the novel), however, revolve around Max's awkward relationship with Chloe: a girl with a spastic personality and blunt demeanor whom Max describes as one who "[does] not play, on her own or otherwise". Chloe is shown as a volatile character: flagrantly kissing Max in a Cinema, rough-housing with her brother Myles, and what was hinted as hypersexuality earlier, is quite possibly confirmed as hypersexuality in the book's final moments.
We soon learn that Chloe and Myles like to tease Rose, who is young and timid enough to feel bullied. Max, another day, climbs a tree in the yard of the Ceders house, and soon spots Rose crying not too far from him. Mrs. Grace soon emerges, comforting Rose. Max overhears (rather, Max remembers overhearing) key words from their conversation: "love him" and "Mr. Grace". Assuming this to mean Rose and Mr. Grace are having an affair, he tells Chloe and Myles. The ending of the book entwines the exact moment of Anna's death with Chloe and Myles drowning in the sea itself as Max and Rose look on. Max, done with his childhood memories, offers a final memory of a near-death episode while he was inebriated. The Colonel does not physically save Max, rather finds him knocked unconscious by a rock (from a drunken stumble). His daughter scolds him at the hospital, assumingly being told he nearly killed himself, and tells him to come home with her. It is revealed at this point that Miss Vavasour is Rose herself and she was in love with Mrs. Grace. Max finishes with a redaction of himself standing in the sea after Anna's death (an allegory is made between crashing waves and tumultuous periods of his life). We are to assume that he will leave the Cedars' home to be cared for by his daughter, Claire.
Development[edit]
Banville himself has described the book as "a direct return to my childhood, to when I was ten or so. The book is set in a fictionalized Rosslare, the seaside village where we went every summer as children. Looking back now it seems idyllic, though I’m sure ninety-five percent of the experience was absolute, grinding boredom." The book also began in the third person - "Shroud was the latest in a series of novels of mine in the first person, all of them about men in trouble. I knew I had to find a new direction. So I started to write The Sea in the third person. It was going to be very short, seventy pages or so, and solely about childhood holidays at the seaside—very bare. I worked on it for about eighteen months, but I couldn’t get it to work. And then, out of nowhere, the first-person narrative voice made itself heard again.[1]" The Sea was completed in September 2004.
Awards and nominations[edit]
The novel won the Man Booker Prize for 2005. The selection of The Sea for the Booker Prize was a satisfying victory for Banville, as his novel The Book of Evidence was shortlisted in 1989 but lost to The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. Ishiguro was again on the shortlist in 2005 with his novel Never Let Me Go. In fact it was reported in The Times that they had whittled the shortlist down to those two novels and it was only the chair John Sutherland's casting vote that decided the winner. The choice of Banville as winner of the award was not seen as a populist choice, causing Banville to retort, "If they give me the bloody prize, why can't they say nice things about me?" [2] Banville's surprise win was described by Boyd Tonkin as "possibly the most perverse decision in the history of the award",[3] though others defended the choice, citing the lyrical, stylistic prose as making the book worthy of the award.[4]
In his acceptance speech Banville state his pleasure that a work of art had won the prize, a statement that saw him being accused of arrogance. He later added, "Whether The Sea is a successful work of art is not for me to say, but a work of art is what I set out to make. The kind of novels that I write very rarely win the Man Booker Prize, which in general promotes good, middlebrow fiction."[1]
Adaptations[edit]
Main article: The Sea (2013 film)
A film adaptation has been shot, with Banville having penned the script. The movie is directed by Stephen Brown and stars Ciarán Hinds (Max Morden), Rufus Sewell (Carlo Grace), Charlotte Rampling (Miss Vavasour), and Natascha McElhone (Connie Grace). The film is produced by Luc Roeg, scored by Andrew Hewitt, with cinematography by John Conroy.
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b McKeon, Belinda. "John Banville, The Art of Fiction No. 200". The Paris Review.
2.Jump up ^ "John Banville". The Guardian. 10 June 2008. Retrieved 10 June 2008.
3.Jump up ^ Crown, Sarah (10 October 2005). "Banville scoops the Booker". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 October 2005.
4.Jump up ^ Ezard, John (11 October 2005). "Irish stylist springs Booker surprise". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 October 2005.
External links[edit]
Chapter 1 extract from The Guardian (10 August 2005). Retrieved on 12 August 2008.
The Sea at the Internet Movie Database

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The Sea is a play written by the English dramatist Edward Bond in 1973. It is a comedy set in a small village in rural East Anglia in the Edwardian period. The play draws on some of the themes of Shakespeare's The Tempest.
The play is set in 1907 in an East Anglian seaside community and begins with a tempestuous storm. A well known and loved member of the community dies at sea, and the play explores the reactions of the villagers and the attempts by two young lovers to break away from the constraints of the hierarchical, and sometimes insane, society. At the same time, the draper of the city gets mad while struggling with the town's "First Lady" and believing that aliens from another planet have arrived to invade the city, personified through the best friend of the drowned man.
The play was originally produced at the Royal Court Theatre on 22 May 1973, directed by William Gaskill and last produced in Britain by the 1812 Theatre Company in Helmsley.
In New York, the play was produced Off-Broadway by The Actors Company Theatre (TACT) in 2007.
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The Sea is a play written by the English dramatist Edward Bond in 1973. It is a comedy set in a small village in rural East Anglia in the Edwardian period. The play draws on some of the themes of Shakespeare's The Tempest.
The play is set in 1907 in an East Anglian seaside community and begins with a tempestuous storm. A well known and loved member of the community dies at sea, and the play explores the reactions of the villagers and the attempts by two young lovers to break away from the constraints of the hierarchical, and sometimes insane, society. At the same time, the draper of the city gets mad while struggling with the town's "First Lady" and believing that aliens from another planet have arrived to invade the city, personified through the best friend of the drowned man.
The play was originally produced at the Royal Court Theatre on 22 May 1973, directed by William Gaskill and last produced in Britain by the 1812 Theatre Company in Helmsley.
In New York, the play was produced Off-Broadway by The Actors Company Theatre (TACT) in 2007.
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The Sea, the Sea
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First edition

Author
Iris Murdoch
Cover artist
Hokusai The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Publisher
Chatto & Windus

Publication date
 1978
Media type
Print (Hardcover)
Pages
502 pp
ISBN
0-670-62651-1
OCLC
4136290

Dewey Decimal
 823/.9/14
LC Class
PZ4.M974 Sd PR6063.U7
The Sea, the Sea is the 19th novel by Iris Murdoch. It won the Booker Prize in 1978.
Plot summary[edit]
The Sea, the Sea is a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a self-satisfied playwright and director as he begins to write his memoirs. Murdoch's novel exposes the motivations that drive her characters - the vanity, jealousy, and lack of compassion behind the disguises they present to the world. Charles Arrowby, its central figure, decides to withdraw from the world and live in seclusion in a house by the sea. While there, he encounters his first love, Mary Hartley Fitch, whom he has not seen since his love affair with her as an adolescent. Although she is almost unrecognisable in old age, and outside his theatrical world, he becomes obsessed by her, idealizing his former relationship with her and attempting to persuade her to elope with him. His inability to recognise the egotism and selfishness of his own romantic ideals is at the heart of the novel. After the farcical and abortive kidnapping of Mrs. Fitch by Arrowby, he is left to mull over her rejection in a self-obsessional and self-aggrandising manner over the space of several chapters. "How much, I see as I look back, I read into it all, reading my own dream text and not looking at the reality... Yes of course I was in love with my own youth... Who is one's first love?"[1]
Title[edit]
Iris Murdoch's biographer Peter J. Conradi gives Xenophon as the ultimate source of the title.[2] According to Xenophon's Anabasis, "The Sea! The Sea!" (Thalatta! Thalatta!) was the shout of triumphant exultation given by the roaming 10,000 Greeks when, in 401 BC, they caught sight of the Black Sea from Mount Theches in Trebizond and realised they were saved from near-certain death.
Conradi states that the direct source of the title is Paul Valéry's poem Le Cimetiere Marin (The Graveyard by the Sea). A line in the poem's final stanza quotes the Greeks' shouts: "La mer, la mer, toujours recommencėe" (The Sea, the sea, forever restarting).[3] Murdoch refers to the poem in several of her books, and this stanza appears in full at the end of chapter 4 in her 1963 novel The Unicorn.[4]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Murdoch, Iris (1999). The Sea, the Sea. London: Vintage. pp. 499, 502. ISBN 009928409X.
2.Jump up ^ Conradi, Peter J. (2001). Iris Murdoch: A Life. London: W.W. Norton & Company. p. 74. ISBN 0393048756.
3.Jump up ^ Conradi, Peter J. (1989). The Saint & the Artist: A Study of the Fiction of Iris Murdoch (3rd ed.). London: Harper Collins. p. 293. ISBN 0007120192.
4.Jump up ^ Murdoch, Iris (1975). The Unicorn. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin. p. 43.

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The Sea, the Sea
TheSeaTheSea.JPG
First edition

Author
Iris Murdoch
Cover artist
Hokusai The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Publisher
Chatto & Windus

Publication date
 1978
Media type
Print (Hardcover)
Pages
502 pp
ISBN
0-670-62651-1
OCLC
4136290

Dewey Decimal
 823/.9/14
LC Class
PZ4.M974 Sd PR6063.U7
The Sea, the Sea is the 19th novel by Iris Murdoch. It won the Booker Prize in 1978.
Plot summary[edit]
The Sea, the Sea is a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a self-satisfied playwright and director as he begins to write his memoirs. Murdoch's novel exposes the motivations that drive her characters - the vanity, jealousy, and lack of compassion behind the disguises they present to the world. Charles Arrowby, its central figure, decides to withdraw from the world and live in seclusion in a house by the sea. While there, he encounters his first love, Mary Hartley Fitch, whom he has not seen since his love affair with her as an adolescent. Although she is almost unrecognisable in old age, and outside his theatrical world, he becomes obsessed by her, idealizing his former relationship with her and attempting to persuade her to elope with him. His inability to recognise the egotism and selfishness of his own romantic ideals is at the heart of the novel. After the farcical and abortive kidnapping of Mrs. Fitch by Arrowby, he is left to mull over her rejection in a self-obsessional and self-aggrandising manner over the space of several chapters. "How much, I see as I look back, I read into it all, reading my own dream text and not looking at the reality... Yes of course I was in love with my own youth... Who is one's first love?"[1]
Title[edit]
Iris Murdoch's biographer Peter J. Conradi gives Xenophon as the ultimate source of the title.[2] According to Xenophon's Anabasis, "The Sea! The Sea!" (Thalatta! Thalatta!) was the shout of triumphant exultation given by the roaming 10,000 Greeks when, in 401 BC, they caught sight of the Black Sea from Mount Theches in Trebizond and realised they were saved from near-certain death.
Conradi states that the direct source of the title is Paul Valéry's poem Le Cimetiere Marin (The Graveyard by the Sea). A line in the poem's final stanza quotes the Greeks' shouts: "La mer, la mer, toujours recommencėe" (The Sea, the sea, forever restarting).[3] Murdoch refers to the poem in several of her books, and this stanza appears in full at the end of chapter 4 in her 1963 novel The Unicorn.[4]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Murdoch, Iris (1999). The Sea, the Sea. London: Vintage. pp. 499, 502. ISBN 009928409X.
2.Jump up ^ Conradi, Peter J. (2001). Iris Murdoch: A Life. London: W.W. Norton & Company. p. 74. ISBN 0393048756.
3.Jump up ^ Conradi, Peter J. (1989). The Saint & the Artist: A Study of the Fiction of Iris Murdoch (3rd ed.). London: Harper Collins. p. 293. ISBN 0007120192.
4.Jump up ^ Murdoch, Iris (1975). The Unicorn. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin. p. 43.

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The Sea may refer to:
The sea, a body of salty water.


Contents  [hide]
1 Films
2 Music 2.1 Albums
2.2 Songs
3 Other
4 See also
Films[edit]
La Mer (film) (The Sea), an 1895 French short, black-and-white, silent documentary film directed by Louis Lumière
The Sea (1933 film) (original Polish title: Morze), a 1933 Polish short, documentary film directed by Wanda Jakubowska
The Sea (1962 film) (original Italian title: Il mare), a 1962 drama Italian film directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
The Sea (2000 film) (original Spanish title: El mar), a 2000 Spanish drama film directed by Agustí Villaronga
The Sea (2002 film) (original Icelandic title: Hafið), a 2002 Icelandic comedy-drama film directed by Baltasar Kormákur
The Sea (2013 film) , a 2013 British drama film directed by Stephen Brown
Music[edit]
The Sea (band), a rock pop band formed in Cornwall, England
Albums[edit]
The Sea (Ketil Bjørnstad album), 1995 The Sea II, a 1998 album (recorded 1996) by Norwegian pianist Ketil Bjørnstad
The Sea (Melanie C album), 2011
The Sea (Corinne Bailey Rae album), 2010
Songs[edit]
"The Sea", a song by Sigismund von Neukomm
"The Sea", a song by Morcheeba from their 1998 album Big Calm
"The Sea", a song by Corinne Bailey Rae from her second album.
"Beyond the Sea", a song based on "La Mer"
"The Sea", a song by Sandy Denny, which appeared on Fotheringay's eponymous first album as well as the Island Records sampler, "Bumpers".
Other[edit]
The Sea (novel), a 2005 Booker Prize-winning novel by John Banville
The Sea (play), a 1973 play by Edward Bond
The Sea, a symphonic poem by Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
The Sea, an unconsidered competitor who finished sixth in the 1840 Grand National
The Sea or The Proverb of the Sea, a poem by the philosopher and poet Khalil Gibran
Sea (astronomy), an area of the sky with many water-related and few land-related constellations
See also[edit]
The Sea, the Sea, a novel by Iris Murdoch
Sea (disambiguation)
La mer (disambiguation)
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The Sea
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Sea may refer to:
The sea, a body of salty water.


Contents  [hide]
1 Films
2 Music 2.1 Albums
2.2 Songs
3 Other
4 See also
Films[edit]
La Mer (film) (The Sea), an 1895 French short, black-and-white, silent documentary film directed by Louis Lumière
The Sea (1933 film) (original Polish title: Morze), a 1933 Polish short, documentary film directed by Wanda Jakubowska
The Sea (1962 film) (original Italian title: Il mare), a 1962 drama Italian film directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
The Sea (2000 film) (original Spanish title: El mar), a 2000 Spanish drama film directed by Agustí Villaronga
The Sea (2002 film) (original Icelandic title: Hafið), a 2002 Icelandic comedy-drama film directed by Baltasar Kormákur
The Sea (2013 film) , a 2013 British drama film directed by Stephen Brown
Music[edit]
The Sea (band), a rock pop band formed in Cornwall, England
Albums[edit]
The Sea (Ketil Bjørnstad album), 1995 The Sea II, a 1998 album (recorded 1996) by Norwegian pianist Ketil Bjørnstad
The Sea (Melanie C album), 2011
The Sea (Corinne Bailey Rae album), 2010
Songs[edit]
"The Sea", a song by Sigismund von Neukomm
"The Sea", a song by Morcheeba from their 1998 album Big Calm
"The Sea", a song by Corinne Bailey Rae from her second album.
"Beyond the Sea", a song based on "La Mer"
"The Sea", a song by Sandy Denny, which appeared on Fotheringay's eponymous first album as well as the Island Records sampler, "Bumpers".
Other[edit]
The Sea (novel), a 2005 Booker Prize-winning novel by John Banville
The Sea (play), a 1973 play by Edward Bond
The Sea, a symphonic poem by Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
The Sea, an unconsidered competitor who finished sixth in the 1840 Grand National
The Sea or The Proverb of the Sea, a poem by the philosopher and poet Khalil Gibran
Sea (astronomy), an area of the sky with many water-related and few land-related constellations
See also[edit]
The Sea, the Sea, a novel by Iris Murdoch
Sea (disambiguation)
La mer (disambiguation)
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Sea Devils
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For the DC Comics team, see Sea Devils (comics). For the 1937 film, see Sea Devils (1937 film). For the fictional monsters in Doctor Who, see Sea Devil (Doctor Who).

Sea Devils
Poster of the movie Sea Devils.jpg
Original cinema poster

Directed by
Raoul Walsh
Produced by
David E. Rose[1]
Screenplay by
Borden Chase[1]
Story by
Borden Chase[1]
Based on
Toilers of the Sea
 by Victor Hugo[2]
Starring
Rock Hudson
Yvonne De Carlo
Maxwell Reed[1]
Music by
Richard Addinsell[2]
Cinematography
Wilkie Cooper[1]
Edited by
John Seabourne Sr.[1]

Production
 company

Coronado Productions[3]

Distributed by
RKO Pictures[2]

Release dates

April 25, 1953 (UK)[4]
May 23, 1953 (US)[2]


Running time
 91 minutes[5]
Country
United Kingdom
 United States[5]
Language
English
Sea Devils (1953) is a British–American historical adventure film, directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Rock Hudson, Yvonne De Carlo, and Maxwell Reed. The story is based on Victor Hugo's novel Toilers of the Sea. The scenes at sea were shot around the Channel Islands, and much of the rest of the film was shot on location in those islands as well.[2]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 References
4 External links

Plot[edit]
The year is 1800, and Britain and France have been at war since 1798, in what later was to be known as the War of the Second Coalition. Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman, Drouchette, to the French coast. She tells him she hopes to rescue her brother from a French prison. Gilliatt finds himself falling in love and so feels betrayed when he later learns that Drouchette is a countess helping Napoleon plan an invasion of Britain. In reality, however, Drouchette is a British agent working to thwart this invasion. When Gilliatt learns this, he returns to France to rescue her, just as her true purpose has been discovered by the French.
Cast[edit]
Rock Hudson as Gilliatt
Yvonne De Carlo as Drouchette
Maxwell Reed as Rantaine
Denis O'Dea as Lethierry
Michael Goodliffe as Ragan
Bryan Forbes as Willie
Jacques B. Brunius as Fouche
Ivor Barnard as Benson
Arthur Wontner as Baron de Baudrec
Gérard Oury as Napoleon
Larry Taylor as Blasquito
Keith Pyott as General Latour
Reed De Rouen as Customs man
Michael Mulcaster as Coastguard skipper
Rene Poirier as Duprez
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f "Sea Devils, Credits". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on June 6, 2014. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
2.^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Sea Devils: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved June 7, 2014.
3.Jump up ^ "Sea Devils, Overview". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on July 10, 2013. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
4.Jump up ^ The Times, April 25, 1953, page 2: First advertisement for Sea Devils, showing at Empire, Leicester Square - Retrieved from The Times Digital Archive June 7, 2014
5.^ Jump up to: a b "Sea Devils: Technical Details". theiapolis.com. Archived from the original on June 6, 2014. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
External links[edit]
Sea Devils at the American Film Institute Catalog
Sea Devils in the British Film Institute's "Explore film..." database
Sea Devils at the Internet Movie Database
Sea Devils at the TCM Movie Database
Sea Devils at AllMovie


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 Along the Great Divide (1951) ·
 Distant Drums (1951) ·
 Glory Alley (1952) ·
 The World in His Arms (1952) ·
 Blackbeard the Pirate (1952) ·
 The Lawless Breed (1953) ·
 Sea Devils (1953) ·
 A Lion Is in the Streets (1953) ·
 Gun Fury (1953) ·
 Saskatchewan (1954) ·
 Battle Cry (1955) ·
 The Tall Men (1955) ·
 The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956) ·
 The King and Four Queens (1956) ·
 Band of Angels (1957) ·
 The Naked and the Dead (1958) ·
 The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958) ·
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Sea Devils
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the DC Comics team, see Sea Devils (comics). For the 1937 film, see Sea Devils (1937 film). For the fictional monsters in Doctor Who, see Sea Devil (Doctor Who).

Sea Devils
Poster of the movie Sea Devils.jpg
Original cinema poster

Directed by
Raoul Walsh
Produced by
David E. Rose[1]
Screenplay by
Borden Chase[1]
Story by
Borden Chase[1]
Based on
Toilers of the Sea
 by Victor Hugo[2]
Starring
Rock Hudson
Yvonne De Carlo
Maxwell Reed[1]
Music by
Richard Addinsell[2]
Cinematography
Wilkie Cooper[1]
Edited by
John Seabourne Sr.[1]

Production
 company

Coronado Productions[3]

Distributed by
RKO Pictures[2]

Release dates

April 25, 1953 (UK)[4]
May 23, 1953 (US)[2]


Running time
 91 minutes[5]
Country
United Kingdom
 United States[5]
Language
English
Sea Devils (1953) is a British–American historical adventure film, directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Rock Hudson, Yvonne De Carlo, and Maxwell Reed. The story is based on Victor Hugo's novel Toilers of the Sea. The scenes at sea were shot around the Channel Islands, and much of the rest of the film was shot on location in those islands as well.[2]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 References
4 External links

Plot[edit]
The year is 1800, and Britain and France have been at war since 1798, in what later was to be known as the War of the Second Coalition. Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman, Drouchette, to the French coast. She tells him she hopes to rescue her brother from a French prison. Gilliatt finds himself falling in love and so feels betrayed when he later learns that Drouchette is a countess helping Napoleon plan an invasion of Britain. In reality, however, Drouchette is a British agent working to thwart this invasion. When Gilliatt learns this, he returns to France to rescue her, just as her true purpose has been discovered by the French.
Cast[edit]
Rock Hudson as Gilliatt
Yvonne De Carlo as Drouchette
Maxwell Reed as Rantaine
Denis O'Dea as Lethierry
Michael Goodliffe as Ragan
Bryan Forbes as Willie
Jacques B. Brunius as Fouche
Ivor Barnard as Benson
Arthur Wontner as Baron de Baudrec
Gérard Oury as Napoleon
Larry Taylor as Blasquito
Keith Pyott as General Latour
Reed De Rouen as Customs man
Michael Mulcaster as Coastguard skipper
Rene Poirier as Duprez
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f "Sea Devils, Credits". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on June 6, 2014. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
2.^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Sea Devils: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved June 7, 2014.
3.Jump up ^ "Sea Devils, Overview". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on July 10, 2013. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
4.Jump up ^ The Times, April 25, 1953, page 2: First advertisement for Sea Devils, showing at Empire, Leicester Square - Retrieved from The Times Digital Archive June 7, 2014
5.^ Jump up to: a b "Sea Devils: Technical Details". theiapolis.com. Archived from the original on June 6, 2014. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
External links[edit]
Sea Devils at the American Film Institute Catalog
Sea Devils in the British Film Institute's "Explore film..." database
Sea Devils at the Internet Movie Database
Sea Devils at the TCM Movie Database
Sea Devils at AllMovie


[hide]
v ·
 t ·
 e
 
Films directed by Raoul Walsh


The Life of General Villa (1914) ·
 Regeneration (1915) ·
 Peer Gynt (1915) ·
 Carmen (1915) ·
 The Serpent (1916) ·
 The Silent Lie (1917) ·
 Betrayed (1917) ·
 The Prussian Cur (1918) ·
 Evangeline (1919) ·
 Kindred of the Dust (1922) ·
 Lost and Found on a South Sea Island (1923) ·
 The Thief of Bagdad (1924) ·
 East of Suez (1925) ·
 The Wanderer (1925) ·
 The Lucky Lady (1926) ·
 What Price Glory? (1926) ·
 Sadie Thompson (1928) ·
 The Red Dance (1928) ·
 Me, Gangster (1928) ·
 The Cock-Eyed World (1929) ·
 Hot for Paris (1929) ·
 The Big Trail (1930) ·
 The Man Who Came Back (1931) ·
 The Yellow Ticket (1931) ·
 Wild Girl (1932) ·
 Me and My Gal (1932) ·
 Sailor's Luck (1933) ·
 Hello, Sister! (1933) ·
 The Bowery (1933) ·
 Going Hollywood (1933) ·
 Baby Face Harrington (1935) ·
 Every Night at Eight (1935) ·
 Klondike Annie (1936) ·
 Big Brown Eyes (1936) ·
 Artists and Models (1937) ·
 Hitting a New High (1937) ·
 O.H.M.S. (1937) ·
 Jump for Glory (1937) ·
 College Swing (1938) ·
 St. Louis Blues (1939) ·
 The Roaring Twenties (1939) ·
 Dark Command (1940) ·
 They Drive by Night (1940) ·
 High Sierra (1941) ·
 The Strawberry Blonde (1941) ·
 Manpower (1941) ·
 They Died with Their Boots On (1941) ·
 Desperate Journey (1942) ·
 Gentleman Jim (1942) ·
 Background to Danger (1943) ·
 Northern Pursuit (1943) ·
 Uncertain Glory (1944) ·
 Objective, Burma! (1945) ·
 Salty O'Rourke (1945) ·
 The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945) ·
 The Man I Love (1947) ·
 Pursued (1947) ·
 Cheyenne (1947) ·
 Silver River (1948) ·
 Fighter Squadron (1948) ·
 One Sunday Afternoon (1948) ·
 Colorado Territory (1949) ·
 White Heat (1949) ·
 Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951) ·
 Along the Great Divide (1951) ·
 Distant Drums (1951) ·
 Glory Alley (1952) ·
 The World in His Arms (1952) ·
 Blackbeard the Pirate (1952) ·
 The Lawless Breed (1953) ·
 Sea Devils (1953) ·
 A Lion Is in the Streets (1953) ·
 Gun Fury (1953) ·
 Saskatchewan (1954) ·
 Battle Cry (1955) ·
 The Tall Men (1955) ·
 The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956) ·
 The King and Four Queens (1956) ·
 Band of Angels (1957) ·
 The Naked and the Dead (1958) ·
 The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958) ·
 A Private's Affair (1959) ·
 Esther and the King (1960) ·
 Marines, Let's Go (1961) ·
 A Distant Trumpet (1964)
 




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Toilers of the Sea
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Toilers of the Sea

Author
Victor Hugo
Original title
Les Travailleurs de la mer
Country
Belgium
Language
French
Genre
Novel
Publisher
Verboeckhoven et Cie

Publication date
 1866 (first edition)
Media type
Print (Hardback & Paperback)
ISBN
NA
Toilers of the Sea (French: Les Travailleurs de la mer) is a novel by Victor Hugo published in 1866. The book is dedicated to the island of Guernsey, where Hugo spent 19 years in exile.[citation needed] Like The Book of Ebenezer Le Page (1981) by G. B. Edwards, Hugo uses the setting of a small island community to transmute seemingly mundane events into drama of the highest calibre. Les Travailleurs de la Mer is set just after the Napoleonic Wars and deals with the impact of the Industrial Revolution upon the island.[citation needed]
The story concerns a Guernseyman named Gilliatt, a social outcast who falls in love with Deruchette, the niece of a local shipowner, Mess Lethierry. When Lethierry's ship is wrecked on the Roches Douvres, a perilous reef, Deruchette promises to marry whoever can salvage the ship's steam engine. Gilliatt eagerly volunteers, and the story follows his physical trials and tribulations (which include a battle with an octopus), as well as the undeserved opprobrium of his neighbours.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot summary
2 Characters
3 Influence
4 Dedication
5 Publishing history
6 Film adaptations
7 References
8 External links

Plot summary[edit]



Octopus that Gilliatt faces (painting by author, 1866)


La Durande (drawing by author, 1866)
A woman arrives in Guernsey, with her son Gilliat, and buys a house said to be haunted. The boy grows up, the woman dies. Gilliat becomes a good fisherman and sailor. People believe him to be a wizard.
In Guernsey also lives Mess Lethierry – a former sailor and owner of the first steamship of the island, the Durande – with his niece Deruchette. One day, near Christmas, when going to church, she sees Gilliat on the road behind her and writes his name in the snow. He sees this and becomes obsessed with her gesture. In time he falls in love with her and goes to play the bagpipes near her house.
Sieur Clubin, the trusted captain of Durande, sets up a plan to sink the ship in the Hanois cliffs and flee with a ship of Spanish smugglers, Tamaulipas. He gets in touch with Rantaine, a swindler who had stolen a large sum of money from Mess Lethierry many years ago. Clubin takes the money from Rantaine at gunpoint.
In thick fog, Clubin sails for the Hanois cliffs from where he can easily swim to the shore, meet the smugglers, and disappear, giving the appearance of having drowned. Instead, he loses his way and sails to the Douvres cliffs which are much further from the shore. Left alone on the ship, he is terrified, but he sees a cutter and leaps into the water to catch it. In that moment he feels grabbed by the leg and is pulled down to the bottom.
Everybody in Guernsey finds out about the shipwreck. Mess Lethierry is desperate to get the Durande '​s engine back. His niece declares she will marry the rescuer of the engine, and Mess Lethierry swears she will marry no other. Gilliat immediately takes up the mission, enduring hunger, thirst, and cold trying to free the engine from the wreck. In a battle with an octopus, he finds the skeleton of Clubin and the stolen money on the bottom of the sea.
Eventually he succeeds in returning the engine to Lethierry, who is very pleased and ready to honour his promise. Gilliat appears in front of the people as the rescuer but he declines to marry Deruchette because he had seen her accepting a marriage proposal made by Ebenezer Caudry, the young priest recently arrived on the island. He arranges their hurried wedding and helps them run away on the sailing ship Cashmere. In the end, with all his dreams shattered, Gilliat decides to wait for the tide sitting on the Gild Holm'Ur chair (a rock in the sea) and drowns as he watches the Cashmere disappear on the horizon.
Characters[edit]



Gilliatt and the octopus##Gilliatt: a fisherman
##Mess Lethierry: owner of the ship Durande, the island's first steam ship
##Déruchette: Mess Lethierry's young niece
##Sieur Clubin: captain of the Durande
##Ebenezer Caudray: young Anglican priest, recently arrived on the island
Influence[edit]
The novel is credited with introducing the Guernesiais word for octopus (pieuvre) into the French language (standard French for octopus is poulpe).[citation needed]
Dedication[edit]
The following dedication appears at the front of the book:
Je dédie ce livre au rocher d'hospitalité et de liberté, à ce coin de vieille terre normande où vit le noble petit peuple de la mer, à l'île de Guernesey, sévère et douce, mon asile actuel, mon tombeau probable.(I dedicate this book to the rock of hospitality and liberty, to that portion of old Norman ground inhabited by the noble little nation of the sea, to the island of Guernsey, severe yet kind, my present asylum, perhaps my tomb.)
Publishing history[edit]
The novel was first published in Brussels in 1866 (Hugo was in exile from France). An English translation quickly appeared in New York later that year, under the title The Toilers of the Sea.[1] A UK edition followed in 1887, with Ward Lock publishing Sir G Campbell's translation under the title Workers of the Sea[2] followed by an 1896 Routledge edition under the title Toilers of the Sea.Template:Citatoin needed
Hugo had originally intended his essay L'Archipel de la Manche (The Archipelago of the [English] Channel) as an introduction to this novel, although it was not published until 1883, and the two have only been published together in the 20th century.[citation needed]
In 2002, Modern Library published an edition with a new translation by James Hogarth, which bills itself as "the first unabridged English edition of the novel".[citation needed]
Film adaptations[edit]
There have been at least six film adaptations of the novel, including:
##Toilers of the Sea (1914 film) – director unknown (silent)[citation needed]
##Toilers of the Sea (1915 film) – director unknown (silent)[citation needed]
##Toilers of the Sea (1923 film) – director Roy William Neill (silent)
##Toilers of the Sea (1936 film) – director Selwyn Jepson
##Sea Devils (1953 film) – director Raoul Walsh
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Josephson, Matthew (1,961). "Introduction". The Toilers of the Sea. Heritage Press. p. xvi. Check date values in: |date= (help)
2.Jump up ^ "Publisher's website". Catalog.bl.uk.
External links[edit]
##"Text of Toilers of the Sea online". Rakeshv.org.
  


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Toilers of the Sea
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Toilers of the Sea

Author
Victor Hugo
Original title
Les Travailleurs de la mer
Country
Belgium
Language
French
Genre
Novel
Publisher
Verboeckhoven et Cie

Publication date
 1866 (first edition)
Media type
Print (Hardback & Paperback)
ISBN
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Toilers of the Sea (French: Les Travailleurs de la mer) is a novel by Victor Hugo published in 1866. The book is dedicated to the island of Guernsey, where Hugo spent 19 years in exile.[citation needed] Like The Book of Ebenezer Le Page (1981) by G. B. Edwards, Hugo uses the setting of a small island community to transmute seemingly mundane events into drama of the highest calibre. Les Travailleurs de la Mer is set just after the Napoleonic Wars and deals with the impact of the Industrial Revolution upon the island.[citation needed]
The story concerns a Guernseyman named Gilliatt, a social outcast who falls in love with Deruchette, the niece of a local shipowner, Mess Lethierry. When Lethierry's ship is wrecked on the Roches Douvres, a perilous reef, Deruchette promises to marry whoever can salvage the ship's steam engine. Gilliatt eagerly volunteers, and the story follows his physical trials and tribulations (which include a battle with an octopus), as well as the undeserved opprobrium of his neighbours.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot summary
2 Characters
3 Influence
4 Dedication
5 Publishing history
6 Film adaptations
7 References
8 External links

Plot summary[edit]



Octopus that Gilliatt faces (painting by author, 1866)


La Durande (drawing by author, 1866)
A woman arrives in Guernsey, with her son Gilliat, and buys a house said to be haunted. The boy grows up, the woman dies. Gilliat becomes a good fisherman and sailor. People believe him to be a wizard.
In Guernsey also lives Mess Lethierry – a former sailor and owner of the first steamship of the island, the Durande – with his niece Deruchette. One day, near Christmas, when going to church, she sees Gilliat on the road behind her and writes his name in the snow. He sees this and becomes obsessed with her gesture. In time he falls in love with her and goes to play the bagpipes near her house.
Sieur Clubin, the trusted captain of Durande, sets up a plan to sink the ship in the Hanois cliffs and flee with a ship of Spanish smugglers, Tamaulipas. He gets in touch with Rantaine, a swindler who had stolen a large sum of money from Mess Lethierry many years ago. Clubin takes the money from Rantaine at gunpoint.
In thick fog, Clubin sails for the Hanois cliffs from where he can easily swim to the shore, meet the smugglers, and disappear, giving the appearance of having drowned. Instead, he loses his way and sails to the Douvres cliffs which are much further from the shore. Left alone on the ship, he is terrified, but he sees a cutter and leaps into the water to catch it. In that moment he feels grabbed by the leg and is pulled down to the bottom.
Everybody in Guernsey finds out about the shipwreck. Mess Lethierry is desperate to get the Durande '​s engine back. His niece declares she will marry the rescuer of the engine, and Mess Lethierry swears she will marry no other. Gilliat immediately takes up the mission, enduring hunger, thirst, and cold trying to free the engine from the wreck. In a battle with an octopus, he finds the skeleton of Clubin and the stolen money on the bottom of the sea.
Eventually he succeeds in returning the engine to Lethierry, who is very pleased and ready to honour his promise. Gilliat appears in front of the people as the rescuer but he declines to marry Deruchette because he had seen her accepting a marriage proposal made by Ebenezer Caudry, the young priest recently arrived on the island. He arranges their hurried wedding and helps them run away on the sailing ship Cashmere. In the end, with all his dreams shattered, Gilliat decides to wait for the tide sitting on the Gild Holm'Ur chair (a rock in the sea) and drowns as he watches the Cashmere disappear on the horizon.
Characters[edit]



Gilliatt and the octopus##Gilliatt: a fisherman
##Mess Lethierry: owner of the ship Durande, the island's first steam ship
##Déruchette: Mess Lethierry's young niece
##Sieur Clubin: captain of the Durande
##Ebenezer Caudray: young Anglican priest, recently arrived on the island
Influence[edit]
The novel is credited with introducing the Guernesiais word for octopus (pieuvre) into the French language (standard French for octopus is poulpe).[citation needed]
Dedication[edit]
The following dedication appears at the front of the book:
Je dédie ce livre au rocher d'hospitalité et de liberté, à ce coin de vieille terre normande où vit le noble petit peuple de la mer, à l'île de Guernesey, sévère et douce, mon asile actuel, mon tombeau probable.(I dedicate this book to the rock of hospitality and liberty, to that portion of old Norman ground inhabited by the noble little nation of the sea, to the island of Guernsey, severe yet kind, my present asylum, perhaps my tomb.)
Publishing history[edit]
The novel was first published in Brussels in 1866 (Hugo was in exile from France). An English translation quickly appeared in New York later that year, under the title The Toilers of the Sea.[1] A UK edition followed in 1887, with Ward Lock publishing Sir G Campbell's translation under the title Workers of the Sea[2] followed by an 1896 Routledge edition under the title Toilers of the Sea.Template:Citatoin needed
Hugo had originally intended his essay L'Archipel de la Manche (The Archipelago of the [English] Channel) as an introduction to this novel, although it was not published until 1883, and the two have only been published together in the 20th century.[citation needed]
In 2002, Modern Library published an edition with a new translation by James Hogarth, which bills itself as "the first unabridged English edition of the novel".[citation needed]
Film adaptations[edit]
There have been at least six film adaptations of the novel, including:
##Toilers of the Sea (1914 film) – director unknown (silent)[citation needed]
##Toilers of the Sea (1915 film) – director unknown (silent)[citation needed]
##Toilers of the Sea (1923 film) – director Roy William Neill (silent)
##Toilers of the Sea (1936 film) – director Selwyn Jepson
##Sea Devils (1953 film) – director Raoul Walsh
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Josephson, Matthew (1,961). "Introduction". The Toilers of the Sea. Heritage Press. p. xvi. Check date values in: |date= (help)
2.Jump up ^ "Publisher's website". Catalog.bl.uk.
External links[edit]
##"Text of Toilers of the Sea online". Rakeshv.org.
  


Categories: Novels by Victor Hugo
Novels set in the Channel Islands
Guernsey culture
1866 novels












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