This enduring classic of French cinema is often cited as director Jacques Feyder’s finest
film and it certainly earned him great acclaim on its release in 1935... [More...]
The second film from the Carné-Prévert collaboration, Drôle de
drame is an extraordinary mix black comedy and farce, quite unlike anything in French
cinema at the time... [More...]
Jenny is the first full length film to be directed
by Marcel Carné, one of the undisputed masters of French cinema. Carné
had previously made one short film Nogent... [More...]
Louis Verneuil’s stage play Le Fauteuil 47 was
first adapted for cinema by Gaston Ravel in 1926. This stylish 1937 re-make was
directed by Fernand Rivers and starred four high-profile actors of the 1930s... [More...]
Un carnet de bal is a good example of French cinema of the late1930s, and one of
the earliest successful attempts at the episodic film which became so popular in subsequent
decades.
The multi-part structure of the... [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...]
La Métamorphose des cloportes is a typically
French comedy policier of the kind that was very popular in the mid-1960s. After
the success of Georges Lautner’s 1963 film
Les Tontons flingueurs... [More...]
