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Overview
Le Bled is a French film comedy-drama first released in 1929,
directed by Jean Renoir.
The film stars Enrique Rivero, Jacky Monnier, Manuel Raaby, Aisa and Alexandre Arquillière.
Our overall rating for this film is: good.
Synopsis
On a streamer bound for Algeria, Pierre Hofer meets and is enchanted by the beautiful
Claudie Duvernet, who is travelling to Algeria to collect her vast inheritance. Claudie
is being pursued by some unscrupulous relatives, including the cruel Manuel, who intend
to rob her of her new-found fortune. Fortunately, Pierre is on hand to thwart their
schemes...
Film Review
Jean Renoir’s final silent film is this rather ordinary but nonetheless watchable mix
of melodrama and comedy, which reflects the French cinema-going appetite at the time for
comforting dramas in exotic colonial settings. The film was commissioned by
the French government to commemorate the centenary of France’s conquest of Algeria in
1830, and this explains why the film sometimes feels like a rather laboured and overly
patriotic homage to the Algerian settlers.
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