Packet 4: Tossup 5

The protagonist of a film set in this sort of place sees a recurring vision of a dead man who blows cigarette smoke through his neck wounds. A mechanic assures the audience that what they are about to see is his true story in the opening of a 1960 Jacques Becker film set in this sort of place. Two men in (15[1])this sort of place blow smoke into each others’ mouths in Un Chant d’Amour (“un shawn dah-MOOR”), the only film by Jean Genet (15[1])(“zhuh-NAY”). The line “hey, you bastards, (15[1])I’m still here!” ends a film set in one of these places. Le Trou (15[1])is set in (15[1])this sort of place, (15[1])as is a 1956 film based on the life of André (*) Devigny (“duh-veen-YEE”) during World War II. (10[3])The Arab youth Malik (-5[1])learns to speak Corsican in this sort of place in Jacques Audiard’s (“ohd-YAR’s”) film A Prophet. A film set in this sort of place was inspired by a mostly-fabricated account by Henri Charrière (“on-REE shar-YAIR”), who had a chest tattoo of a butterfly. (-5[1])For (10[1])10 (10[1])points, what sort of place (10[1])is the setting of Papillon and Robert Bresson’s A Man Escaped? ■END■ (10[1])

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