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The films of
Françoise Rosay
Françoise Rosay
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La Kermesse héroïque (1935) Jacques Feyder |
Drôle de drame (1936) Marcel Carné |
Jenny (1936) Marcel Carné |
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| 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...] |
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Le Fauteuil 47 (1937) Fernand Rivers |
Un carnet de bal (1937) Julien Duvivier |
Macadam (1946) Marcel Blistène |
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| 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. ... [More...] |
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L'Auberge rouge (1951) Claude Autant-Lara |
Le Joueur (1958) Claude Autant-Lara |
Du rififi chez les femmes (1959) Alex Joffé |
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| (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...] |
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Le Bois des amants (1960) Claude Autant-Lara |
La Métamorphose des cloportes (1965) Pierre Granier-Deferre |
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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...] |
