An exceptional cast, a well-honed script and some impressive production
values make this one of the best screen adaptations of the celebrated
Dostoyevsky novel "The Idiot"... [More...]
Director Yves Allégret and screenwriter Jacques Sigurd followed their successful
Dédée
d’Anvers (1948) with this bleak noir melodrama featuring rising star Gérard
Philipe... [More...]
Juliette ou La clef des songes
is probably Marcel Carné’s most underrated and misunderstood
film, but it deserves to be rated as one of his most inspired and
poetic... [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...]
Through a series of dove-tailing love vignettes, Max Ophüls offers us an enchanting
film replete with some of the greatest acting talent French cinema has known... [More...]
One of the most popular historical-adventure films made in France, Fanfan la Tulipe
is a hugely entertaining melange of swash-buckling adventure, comedy and romance... [More...]
Already renowned for his acutely surreal and optimistic view of life, director René
Clair surpassed himself with this outlandish romantic fantasy... [More...]
Les Orgueilleux was an ambitious attempt to break with the conventional romantic
drama which dominated French cinema in the early 1950s. Filmed mainly on location
in Mexico and with some graphic depictions of human suffering... [More...]
This 1954 film from director Claude Autant-Lara is probably the most well-known and finest
adaptation of Stendhal’s complex literary masterpiece... [More...]
Towards the end of his career, writer and film director Sacha Guitry made three major
historical films, each of which earned him critical acclaim and each of which has retained
an enduring popularity... [More...]
This is a fine tragicomic romantic film from arguably the most romantic of all the great
pre-WW2 French film directors, René Clair. It has the distinction of being
Clair’s first film to be made in colour... [More...]
Often cited as one of Sacha Guitry’s best films, with a cast list most directors can only
dream of, Si Paris nous était conté aims to tell the story of Paris
through a series of sketches which range... [More...]
