The most famous, and probably the best, of the six comic films which Fernandel made with
the director Christian-Jaque, François Premier is of interest today mainly for
its ruthless parodying of the starchy historic... [More...]
Les Perles de la couronne was the first of Sacha Guitry’s lavish episodic historical
dramas, made nearly two decades before his similar major works Napoléon
(1955) and Si
Versailles m’était... [More...]