The film that marked René Clair’s long-awaited return to French cinema after his
brief "exile" in the United States, Le silence est d’or is widely regarded as one
of his best works... [More...]
Rendez-vous de juillet is in many ways one of the most remarkable and unexpected
French films of the 1940s. It certainly represents a clear break from the traditional
style of film which that decade excelled in.
With... [More...]
René Clair’s telling of the Faustian myth is a characteristically tongue in cheek
rendition of the famous tale, reminiscent in style to his earlier American film... [More...]
Arguably Jacques Becker’s best and most famous film, Casque d’Or illustrates perhaps
more than any of his films his unique conception of film-making.
Becquer’s main preoccupation is to capture through... [More...]
The previously unknown Eddie Constantine became an overnight star in France when La
Môme vert-de-gris was released in 1953, one of the most popular films of that
year... [More...]
French cancan marks director Jean Renoir’s spectacular return to French
cinema, after a 15 year long absence, working mainly in the United States... [More...]
On the surface this appears to be a virtual remake of La règle du jeu, Renoir’s
1930s classic. Whilst there are many similarities, in terms of the characters and
plot... [More...]
Jean Renoir’s first collaboration with French Television yielded this quirky yet faithful
adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel... [More...]
Despite being a fairly predictable study of a woman’s mid-life crisis, this film succeeds
admirably on the strength of the camera work and Jeanne Moreau’s performance... [More...]
The multi-part film is a difficult kind of cinema to get right but Duvivier’s
Le Diable et les dix commandements is a rare exception where the form succeeds admirably... [More...]
