The films of
Gérard Philipe
L'Idiot (1946)
Georges Lampin 		  Le Diable au corps (1947)
Claude Autant-Lara 		  Une si jolie petite plage (1949)
Yves Allégret 		 
     
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...]    [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 (1950)
Marcel Carné 		  La Beauté du diable (1950)
René Clair 		  La Ronde (1950)
Max Ophüls 		 
     
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...]  
Souvenirs perdus (1950)
Christian-Jaque 		  Fanfan la Tulipe (1952)
Christian-Jaque 		  Les Belles de nuit (1952)
René Clair 		 
     
 [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 (1953)
Yves Allégret 		  Le Rouge et le noir (1954)
Claude Autant-Lara 		  Monsieur Ripois (1954)
René Clément 		 
     
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...]    [More...]  
Si Versailles m'était conté (1954)
Sacha Guitry 		  Les Grandes manoeuvres (1955)
René Clair 		  Si Paris nous était conté (1956)
Sacha Guitry 		 
     
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...]  

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