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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
Les Disparus de Saint-Agil is classic of French cinema, an atmospheric comedy thriller
with dark elements of fantasy and mysticism, which is regarded as one of director Christian-Jaque’s
best works... [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...]
A stylish melange of fairy tale, romance, melodrama and suspense thriller, L’Assassinat
du Père Noël is typical of French cinema of the early 1940s... [More...]
One of the most famous and best-loved of French film musicals, Romance de Paris is probably
the closest that French cinema managed to get to recreating the glamour and charm of the
traditional Hollywood musical of the... [More...]
Part morality play, part social satire, Les Affaires sont les affaires is
one of those films that seems destined to be relevant to any audience
that watches it... [More...]
With its extraordinary combination of black comedy, thriller, romance and neo-realist
flourishes, Goupi mains rouges is almost certainly Jacques Becker’s most unusual
film... [More...]
