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The films of
Marcel Carné
Marcel Carné
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Nogent, Eldorado du dimanche (1929) Marcel Carné |
Drôle de drame (1936) Marcel Carné |
Jenny (1936) Marcel Carné |
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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...] | 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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Hôtel du Nord (1938) Marcel Carné |
Le Quai des brumes (1938) Marcel Carné |
Le Jour se lève (1939) Marcel Carné |
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| This doom-laden, intensely atmospheric film epitomises the poetic realism of French cinema of the late 1930s. Master of the genre, Marcel Carné creates a shadowy world where the harsh realities of an unsympathetic... [More...] | This is a very atmospheric film from one of France’s great directors, Marcel Carné, better known for his legendary film, Les Enfants du Paradis... [More...] | Le Jour se lève is another doom-laden tale which sprang from the combined genius of director Marcel Carné and screenwriter Jacques Prévert... [More...] |
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Les Visiteurs du soir (1942) Marcel Carné |
Les Enfants du paradis (1945) Marcel Carné |
Les Portes de la nuit (1946) Marcel Carné |
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| Les Visiteurs du soir is one of a series of undisputed masterpieces which came out of the fruitful collaboration between director Marcel Carné and screenwriter Jacques Prévert... [More...] | Often rated as the greatest film ever made, and certainly a major triumph of French cinema, Les Enfants du paradis offers us a timeless tale of unrequited love... [More...] | Les Portes de la nuit marked the beginning of a dramatic decline in the fortunes of its director Marcel Carné. Prior to and during World War II... [More...] |
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La Marie du port (1949) Marcel Carné |
Juliette ou La clef des songes (1950) Marcel Carné |
Thérèse Raquin (1953) Marcel Carné |
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| After the commercial failure of Les Portes de la nuit (1949) and the abandonment of Fleur de l’Age, director Marcel Carné soon made a return to form with this suspenseful adaptation of a Georges Simenon... [More...] | Juliette ou La clef des songes is probably Marcel Carné’s most underrated and misunderstood film, but it deserves to be rated as one of his most inspired and poetic... [More...] | Thérèse Raquin is one of the few films made by Marcel Carné after World War II which has the stature of his earlier triumphs. With its tale of doomed love in an atmosphere-laden setting... [More...] |
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L'Air de Paris (1954) Marcel Carné |
Le Pays, d'où je viens (1956) Marcel Carné |
Du mouron pour les petits oiseaux (1962) Marcel Carné |
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| Whilst not in the league of Marcel Carné’s pre-WWII classics, L’Air de Paris is a pleasing example of the director’s art, a light melodrama on the folly of young love set in that eternal city... [More...] |
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