Drôle de drame (1936)
Marcel Carné
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Jenny (1936)
Marcel Carné
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Mayerling (1936)
Anatole Litvak
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The second film from the Carné-Prévert collaboration, Drôle de
drame is an extraordinary mix black comedy and farce, quite unlike anything in French
cinema at the time... [More...]
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Jenny is the first full length film to be directed
by Marcel Carné, one of the undisputed masters of French cinema. Carné
had previously made one short film Nogent... [More...]
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It is not hard to see why Anatole Litvak’s Mayerling
is widely regarded as one of the greatest of cinematic love stories, a 1930s version
of Romeo and Juliette... [More...]
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Les Perles de la couronne (1937)
Christian-Jaque
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J'accuse! (1938)
Abel Gance
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Orage (1938)
Marc Allégret
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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...]
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Abel Gance’s remake of his earlier 1919 film displays all the passion and power of that
earlier film, but with the addition of sound to articulate the director’s protest against
war... [More...]
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There is not a great deal to commend this limp melodrama other than its
stellar cast, which includes three of the finest French actors of the
period... [More...]
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D'homme à hommes (1948)
Christian-Jaque
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La Ronde (1950)
Max Ophüls
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Si Versailles m'était conté (1954)
Sacha Guitry
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Christian-Jaque’s account of the life of Henri Dunant, founder of the Red Cross, is a
masterful composition, meriting a place amongst the director’s best works and a must-see
film for anyone interested in... [More...]
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Through a series of dove-tailing love vignettes, Max Ophüls offers us an enchanting
film replete with some of the greatest acting talent French cinema has known... [More...]
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Towards the end of his career, writer and film director Sacha Guitry made three major
historical films, each of which earned him critical acclaim and each of which has retained
an enduring popularity... [More...]
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