Madame Bovary (1933) Jean Renoir
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Golgotha (1935) Julien Duvivier
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La Bandera (1935) Julien Duvivier
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Although not as well known and as celebrated as Jean Renoir’s subsequent films, Madame
Bovary occupies an important part in the director’s film-making career... [More...]
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One of Julien Duvivier’s most ambitious and controversial films is this character-based
adaption of the Gospels of the New Testament, which relates the last few days of Jesus
Christ... [More...]
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La Bandera is one of Julien Duvivier’s most memorable films, providing a satisfying
and early example of poetic realism, albeit in a setting far removed from contemporary
France... [More...]
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Jenny (1936) Marcel Carné
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Les Bas-fonds (1936) Jean Renoir
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Regain (1937) Marcel Pagnol
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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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In its time, Les Bas-fonds was something of a groundbreaking film, offering an
honest and humanist portrait of those at the lowest end of the social spectrum... [More...]
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This is one of several films in which distinguished writer-director Marcel Pagnol shares
with his cinema audience his undying passion for the provincial France of his youth... [More...]
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