L'Apparition de la Joconde (2011) Directed by François Lunel
Comedy / Drama / Romance
aka: Mona Lisa Has Vanished
Film Synopsis
Franck, a screenwriter struggling to come to terms with the break-up of
his marriage, is invited to Paris by a French film producer to write a
screenplay. After several days of fruitless effort, he is visited
by Lisa, a strange individual who claims she has just escaped from
Leonardo da Vinci famous painting, the Mona Lisa...
From Jean Renoir to François Truffaut, French cinema has no shortage of truly great filmmakers, each bringing a unique approach to the art of filmmaking.
Continental Films, quality cinema under the Nazi Occupation
At the time of the Nazi Occupation of France during WWII, the German-run company Continental produced some of the finest films made in France in the 1940s.
American film comedy had its heyday in the 1920s and '30s, but it remains an important genre and has given American cinema some of its enduring classics.