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The films of
Gabrielle Dorziat
Gabrielle Dorziat
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Mayerling (1936) Anatole Litvak |
La Chaleur du sein (1938) Jean Boyer |
Mollenard (1938) Robert Siodmak |
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| 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 Chaleur du sein is a good example of the kind of comic farce which earned Jean Boyer his reputation as a successful and popular film director of the 1930s and 1940s... [More...] | Towards the end of his successful and highly productive period in France, Robert Siodmak directed a number of films that presage the great film noir classics he would go on to make in Hollywood... [More...] |
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La Fin du jour (1939) Julien Duvivier |
Premier rendez-vous (1941) Henri Decoin |
Le Journal tombe à cinq heures (1942) Georges Lacombe |
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| This is a very sombre film which offers an uncompromising depiction of the humiliation and bitterness that accompanies the end of an actor’s life... [More...] | Danielle Darrieux gives a delightful performance in this pleasing romantic comedy, which was directed by her former husband, Henri Decoin (and not long after their separation)... [More...] |
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Le Voyageur de la Toussaint (1943) Louis Daquin |
Falbalas (1945) Jacques Becker |
Monsieur Vincent (1947) Maurice Cloche |
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| This is an early example of the kind of thriller-mystery, or "polar", which would become phenomenally popular in France during the 1950s. It is also one of the earliest adaptations of a novel by the popular thriller writer... [More...] | This film is a magnificent sortie for director Jacques Becker into the world of high fashion, in Paris, the centre of the universe of haute couture... [More...] | This compelling portrait of St Vincent de Paul, a strikingly humanist work, features Pierre Fresnay in arguably his best film performance. The film has the distinction of being the first French language film to win an... [More...] |
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Les Parents terribles (1948) Jean Cocteau |
Ruy Blas (1948) Pierre Billon |
Manon (1949) Henri-Georges Clouzot |
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| Whilst Jean Cocteau is generally best remembered for his extraordinary artistic flights of fancy (amply illustrated by his 1946 film La Belle et la bête)... [More...] |
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La Vérité sur Bébé Donge (1952) Henri Decoin |
Un acte d'amour (1953) Anatole Litvak |
Les Espions (1957) Henri-Georges Clouzot |
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| Although slow moving, La Vérité sur Bébé Donge offers a typically Simenonesque dark study about the tragedy of an unfulfilled love... [More...] | Immediately after his impressive wartime drama Decision Before Dawn (1951), Anatole Litvak made a return to France for his next film, Un acte d’amour ... [More...] | Henri-Georges Clouzot followed his masterful and hugely successful suspense thriller Les Diaboliques (1955) with this perplexing parody thriller, a far less satisfactory work that proved to be something of a commercial ... [More...] |
