Le Coq du régiment (1933)
Maurice Cammage
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Angèle (1934)
Marcel Pagnol
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Les Bleus de la marine (1934)
Maurice Cammage
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Comic giant of French cinema Fernandel stars in this typical 1930s French farce, a conventional
piece of vaudeville intended purely to entertain the masses... [More...]
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This is the first of Marcel Pagnol’s three ambitious film adaptations of novels by Jean
Giono (followed by Regain and La Femme du boulanger). Like many of
Pagnol’s films... [More...]
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This lowbrow farce appears shamelessly unsophisticated even for the standards of the 1930s,
but a spirited performance from a very young Fernandel gives it a sense of fun and more
than a few good laughs... [More...]
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Toni (1935)
Jean Renoir
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Gribouille (1937)
Marc Allégret
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Ignace (1937)
Pierre Colombier
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Jean Renoir’s bold experiment with neo-realism is only partially successful (marred
mainly by wooden acting), but it provides an interesting diversion from the artificial
studio-based cinema of the time.
Filmed... [More...]
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This atmospheric drama from director Marc Allégret effectively marked the start
of a distinguished film career for actress Michèle Morgan... [More...]
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Ignace is a good example of the popular burlesque comedy of its time, with some
eccentric comic performances and several songs, one of which, the title song Ignace
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L'Étrange Monsieur Victor (1937)
Jean Grémillon
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Un carnet de bal (1937)
Julien Duvivier
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Barnabé (1938)
Alexander Esway
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L’Étrange Monsieur Victor is unquestionably one of Jean Grémillon’s
best films, an atmospheric, sombre tale of guilt, betrayal and retribution... [More...]
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Un carnet de bal is a good example of French cinema of the late1930s, and one of
the earliest successful attempts at the episodic film which became so popular in subsequent
decades.
The multi-part structure of the... [More...]
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Barnabé is a convoluted yet nevertheless entertaining farce of the kind
that was very popular in France in the 1930s. With its mocking yet affectionate
view of the aristocracy... [More...]
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Hôtel du Nord (1938)
Marcel Carné
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La Marseillaise (1938)
Jean Renoir
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Fric-Frac (1939)
Claude Autant-Lara
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This doom-laden, intensely atmospheric film epitomises the poetic realism of French cinema
of the late 1930s. Masters of the genre, Carné and Prévert create
a shadowy world where the harsh realities of an... [More...]
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The only one of Renoir’s films that can truly be described as epic, La Marseillaise
succeeds as both an accurate historical account of an important part of French history
and as a reflection of the mood of the... [More...]
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Fric-frac is a direct adaptation of a popular stage play by Édouard Bourdet
and Fernand Trignol, which starred Michel Simon and Vector Boucher... [More...]
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