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...]
It was under the Occupation that director Claude Autant-Lara proved his mettle and established
himself as one of the finest directors of his generation... [More...]
Possibly the most inspired screen adaptation of a Feydeau farce, Claude
Autant-Lara’s Occupe-toi
d’Amélie is unquestionably one of the highpoints of 1940s
French cinema... [More...]
(1946) and Occupe-toi
d’Amélie (1949), Claude Autant-Lara established himself as one of France’s
leading directors of quality films in the 1940s... [More...]
This 1954 film from director Claude Autant-Lara is probably the most well-known and finest
adaptation of Stendhal’s complex literary masterpiece... [More...]
The bringing together of two great comic actors of the calibre of Jean Gabin and Bourvil
could not fail to be great success, but this film surpasses the audience’s expectations
by several hundred kilometres... [More...]
A few years after their successful collaboration on
La Traversée de Paris (1956), director
Claude Autant-Lara and the popular comic actor Bourvil worked together on this light-hearted
farce... [More...]
