The films of
Jean-Louis Barrault
Drôle de drame (1936)
Marcel Carné 		  Jenny (1936)
Marcel Carné 		  Mayerling (1936)
Anatole Litvak 		 
     
The second film from the Carné-Prévert collaboration, Drôle de drame is an extraordinary mix black comedy and farce, quite unlike anything in French cinema at the time...  [More...]   Jenny is the first full length film to be directed by Marcel Carné, one of the undisputed masters of French cinema. Carné had previously made one short film Nogent...  [More...]   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...]  
Les Perles de la couronne (1937)
Christian-Jaque 		  J'accuse! (1938)
Abel Gance 		  Orage (1938)
Marc Allégret 		 
     
Les Perles de la couronne was the first of Sacha Guitry’s lavish episodic historical dramas, made nearly two decades before his similar major works Napoléon (1955) and Si Versailles m’était...  [More...]   Abel Gance’s remake of his earlier 1919 film displays all the passion and power of that earlier film, but with the addition of sound to articulate the director’s protest against war...  [More...]   There is not a great deal to commend this limp melodrama other than its stellar cast, which includes three of the finest French actors of the period...  [More...]  
Le Destin fabuleux de Désirée Clary (1942)
Sacha Guitry 		  La Symphonie fantastique (1942)
Christian-Jaque 		  Les Enfants du paradis (1945)
Marcel Carné 		 
     
Le Destin fabuleux de Désirée Clary typefies the kind of lavish historical drama with which Sacha Guitry is perhaps most associated. Although less inspired than his subsequent historical films...  [More...]   Christian-Jaque directed this grand but somewhat anaemic historical bio-pic, made for the Germany-run company Continental at the time of the Occupation...  [More...]   Often rated as the greatest film ever made, and certainly a major triumph of French cinema, Les Enfants du paradis offers us a timeless tale of unrequited love...  [More...]  
D'homme à hommes (1948)
Christian-Jaque 		  La Ronde (1950)
Max Ophüls 		  Si Versailles m'était conté (1954)
Sacha Guitry 		 
     
Christian-Jaque’s account of the life of Henri Dunant, founder of the Red Cross, is a masterful composition, meriting a place amongst the director’s best works and a must-see film for anyone interested in...  [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...]   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...]  
Le Dialogue des Carmélites (1960)
Philippe Agostini 		  Le Miracle des loups (1961)
André Hunebelle 		  La Grande frousse (1964)
Jean-Pierre Mocky 		 
     
 [More...]   This swashbuckling historical adventure is typical a genre of film that was very popular in France in the late 1950s and early 1960s – almost invariably with Jean Marais playing the role of an indefatigable...  [More...]   One of the most memorable of Jean-Pierre Mocky’s anarchic film comedies, La Grande frousse benefits from an exceptional "big name" cast, which is headed by Bourvil...  [More...]  

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