Les Portes de la nuit marked the beginning of
a dramatic decline in the fortunes of its director Marcel Carné. Prior to
and during World War II... [More...]
The film that marked René Clair’s long-awaited return to French cinema after his
brief "exile" in the United States, Le silence est d’or is widely regarded as one
of his best works... [More...]
Swashbuckling action historicals were hugely popular in France in the 1950s, and André
Hunebelle was presumably hoping to capitalise on the success of Christian-Jaque’s 1952
film Fanfan
la Tulipe with his... [More...]
The scope of this film and its scale are breathtaking – but the end result is only partially
successful. Even in his formidable epic of the 1920s... [More...]
