This is a fine tragicomic romantic film from arguably the most romantic of all the great
pre-WW2 French film directors, René Clair. It has the distinction of being
Clair’s first film to be made in colour... [More...]
Director Yves Robert’s second film is this charming adaptation of a
popular late 19th Century novella "L’Affaire Blaireau" by Alphonse
Allais... [More...]
The multi-part film is a difficult kind of cinema to get right but Duvivier’s
Le Diable et les dix commandements is a rare exception where the form succeeds admirably... [More...]
Nearing the end of his film-making career, Jean Renoir returned to the subject of his
most famous film, La Grande
illusion, a powerful study of male conflict and camaraderie... [More...]
What was originally envisaged as a serious gangster thriller ended up as a classy comedy
thriller, the first in what would become a popular sub-genre in French cinema in the late
1960s... [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...]
