Of the numerous film adaptations of Victor Hugo’s celebrated work, Henri Fescourt’s four
and a half hour epic is reputed to be the finest... [More...]
Les Croix de bois is one of the most harrowing and
most realistic war films to have been made in France, and bears a favourable comparison
with Lewis Milestone’s legendary American equivalent... [More...]
An undisputed classic of French cinema, Pépé le Moko combines poetic
realism with gangster thriller, making this one of the earliest and best examples of the
French film noir genre... [More...]
This is one of several films in which distinguished writer-director Marcel Pagnol shares
with his cinema audience his undying passion for the provincial France of his youth... [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...]
Le Val d’enfer was the fourth of five films which
Maurice Tourneur made for Continental, the German run film company that operated in France
during the Nazi occupation... [More...]
