One of the most ambitious films in cinema history, Abel Gance’s epic six-hour long Napoléon
is both a stunningly visual work of cinema and a poetically beautiful telling of the life
of France’s most... [More...]
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...]
René Clair has been described as the most quintessentially French of France’s great
film directors, and nowhere is this more apparent than in his poetic elegy to young romance... [More...]
With its atmospheric chiaroscuro photography, impressive cast and
meticulous attention to period detail (not to mention some
stunning montage WWI battle sequences)... [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...]
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...]
13 Rue Madeleine is an
informative documentary-style drama that was intended to promote the
wartime exploits of the Office of Strategic Services (which became the
CIA in 1947)... [More...]
