Le Bonheur is pretty typical of Marcel L’Herbier’s
output in the 1930s, a conventional piece of melodrama intended to showcase the stars
of the day... [More...]
It is not hard to see why Anatole Litvak’s Mayerling
is widely regarded as one of the greatest of cinematic love stories, a 1930s version
of Romeo and Juliette... [More...]
There is not a great deal to commend this limp melodrama other than its
stellar cast, which includes three of the finest French actors of the
period... [More...]
Now regarded as a classic of French cinema, La Bataille du Rail was almost universally
praised when it was released in 1946. It won the Grand Prize at the first Festival
of Cannes in 1946 and established René Clément... [More...]
By the time he came to make Paris
brûle-t-il?, René Clément was one of the most
highly regarded film directors in France. Two of his films had
won Oscars in the Best Foreign Language Film category... [More...]
Although not intended as a conventional historic drama, this film sheds some light on
the enigmatic yet comparatively unknown character of Stavisky... [More...]
