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French films of the 1940s
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Jean Grémillon’s adaptation of Jean Anouilh’s stage play gives the director another opportunity to combine the themes of tragic romance and anti-Bourgeois sentiment which predominate in his work. Whilst Pattes blanches is generally an engaging piece of cinema, it lacks the impact and directness of Grémillon’s earlier achievements and was not a great commercial...
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Rendez-vous de juillet is in many ways one of the most remarkable and unexpected French films of the 1940s. It certainly represents a clear break from the traditional style of film which that decade excelled in. With its exuberant depiction of youth culture and realistic portrayal of young people rollicking in the happy interval between education and full time employment...
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Director Yves Allégret and screenwriter Jacques Sigurd followed their successful Dédée d’Anvers (1948) with this bleak noir melodrama featuring rising star Gérard Philipe. It is a film that is characteristic of its time – grim, hopelessly pessimistic yet still offering a glimmer of hope for the future...
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