By the mid-1930s, Maurice Chevalier had become one of the most popular
of French chansonniers, and one of a handful to have a large
international following... [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...]
La Bête humaine is a powerful study of the darker side of human nature.
It comes from possibly the greatest period of French cinema, from a great director... [More...]
A stylish melange of fairy tale, romance, melodrama and suspense thriller, L’Assassinat
du Père Noël is typical of French cinema of the early 1940s... [More...]
Remorques continues the trend in poetic realism
which was so popular in French cinema in the 1930s and reunites stars Jean
Gabin and Michèle Morgan (previously seen together in Marcel Carné’s
film... [More...]
One of the finest French language adaptations of an English play, Volpone should
be regarded as nothing less than a masterpiece of filmed theatrical farce... [More...]
Les Visiteurs du soir is one of a series of undisputed masterpieces which came
out of the fruitful collaboration between director Marcel Carné and screenwriter
Jacques Prévert... [More...]
With its extraordinary combination of black comedy, thriller, romance and neo-realist
flourishes, Goupi mains rouges is almost certainly Jacques Becker’s most unusual
film... [More...]
Jean Grémillon’s adaptation of Jean Anouilh’s stage play gives the director another
opportunity to combine the themes of tragic romance and anti-Bourgeois sentiment which
predominate in his work... [More...]
Celui qui doit mourir was the second film that
director Jules Dassin made in France – after the influential noir masterpiece
Du rififi chez les homes (1955)... [More...]
This sumptuous historical romantic melodrama afforded Alain Delon his first major acting
role in what was to become an extraordinarily successful film career... [More...]
