Marianne de ma jeunesse is an unusual departure
for Julien Duvivier, yet it is easily one of his finest, most evocative films, showing
a rare glimpse of his more human side... [More...]
A satisfying blend of melodrama, film noir and suspense thriller, Voici le temps des
assassins is amongst Julien Duvivier’s best films. When he was a film critic... [More...]
In this liberal adaptation of a James Hadley Chase novel, director Julien Duvivier and
screenwriter René Barjavel sought to emulate the style of the American and British
comedy thrillers... [More...]
Julien Duvivier’s last great film is a curious synthesis of the harsh world of famous
French author Emile Zola and his own peculiar brand of historical romanticism... [More...]
La Femme et le Pantin is
Julien Duvivier’s spirited but ultimately doomed attempt to update
Pierre Louÿs’s raunchy erotic novel of 1898. It is a
minor footnote in the career of the great director but illustrates... [More...]
Although the latter part of his career was blighted by some notable
misfires and unfair comparison with the work of his younger
contemporaries (New Wave directors such as François Truffaut)... [More...]
The multi-part film is a difficult kind of cinema to get right but Duvivier’s
Le Diable et les dix commandements is a rare exception where the form succeeds admirably... [More...]
With this respectable adaptation of a well-known James Hadley Chase thriller novel, Julien
Duvivier offers a credible homage to the American B-movie and manages to impose on the
genre his own distinctive style... [More...]
Julien Duvivier ended his long and distinguished film career with this taut psychological
thriller, a popular genre and an unashamedly populist kind of film... [More...]
