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The films of
René Lefèvre
René Lefèvre
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Le Million (1931) René Clair |
Les Cinq gentlemen maudits (1931) Julien Duvivier |
Un chien qui rapporte (1932) Jean Choux |
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| Rated as René Clair’s comic masterpiece, the original template for the Hollywood musicals, and one of the best of the early sound films... [More...] | This early sound film from avant-garde French filmmaker Julien Duvivier contains an odd mix of styles which range from an early attempt at neo-realism (most noticeable in the location sequences) to a subtly expressionistic... [More...] | The transition from silent to sound cinema in the early 1930s inspired great innovation in filmmakers and accounts for the extraordinary diversity in both subject and technique that we find in this period... [More...] |
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Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (1936) Jean Renoir |
Cadet-Rousselle (1954) André Hunebelle |
Celui qui doit mourir (1957) Jules Dassin |
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| In Le Crime de Monsieur Lange, Renoir uses a simple story to reflect the political mood of the time. The film has a distinctly anti-capitalistic message... [More...] | Swashbuckling action historicals were hugely popular in France in the 1950s, and André Hunebelle was presumably hoping to capitalise on the success of Christian-Jaque’s 1952 film Fanfan la Tulipe with his... [More...] | Celui qui doit mourir was the second film that director Jules Dassin made in France – after the influential noir masterpiece Du rififi chez les homes (1955)... [More...] |
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Le Gorille vous salue bien (1958) Bernard Borderie |
Sois belle et tais-toi (1958) Marc Allégret |
Le Doulos (1962) Jean-Pierre Melville |
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Despite the shameful political-incorrectness of its title and some pretty blatant sentimentality, this is an entertaining comedy thriller which achieves a satisfying blend of B-movie gangster fare and slapstick. ... [More...] | With Le Doulos, French film director Jean-Pierre Melville began his now legendary cycle of five French gangster films which paid homage to the classic American film noir thrillers of the past and which earned him his... [More...] |
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Angélique et le roy (1966) Bernard Borderie |
Le Corps de mon ennemi (1976) Henri Verneuil |
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| The third in the series of five films adapted from the stories by Anne et Serge Golon sees Angélique torn between her loyalties to her state (whom she must serve to safeguard her children’s future) and her... [More...] | In stark contrast to the crime thrillers with which Belmondo is better known, Le Corps de mon ennemi has an almost total absence of action and physical displays of violence... [More...] |
