Boudu sauvé des eaux (1932)
Jean Renoir
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L'Atalante (1934)
Jean Vigo
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La Vie est à nous (1936)
Jacques Becker
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Boudu sauvé des eaux is amongst Renoir’s most human and certainly
funniest films. It is a warm-hearted satire on the hypocrisies of bourgeois
family life... [More...]
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At first sight, this would appear to be a pretty run-of-the-mill kind of love story.
However, the end result is anything but ordinary, and the film is now almost universally
regarded as one of the greatest and most influential... [More...]
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Made in February and March of 1936 by a team of French Communist Party activists and sympathetic
film technicians, La Vie est à nous is a bold and effective piece of party
propaganda... [More...]
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Picpus (1943)
Richard Pottier
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Muriel (1963)
Alain Resnais
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La Guerre est finie (1966)
Alain Resnais
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Made by Continental Films at the time of the Nazi Occupation, Picpus was the first
of three films to feature popular actor Albert Préjean in the role of Inspector
Maigret... [More...]
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Widely regarded as one of Alain Resnais’ greatest films, Muriel is perhaps the
most perfect distillation of the themes of time, place and memory which dominate most
of the director’s works... [More...]
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The stylish ambiguity and other-worldliness, achieved through some stunning photography,
in Resnais’ early films would appear inappropriate for a political thriller... [More...]
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L'Enfant sauvage (1969)
François Truffaut
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Z (1969)
Costa-Gavras
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Le Corps de mon ennemi (1976)
Henri Verneuil
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When this film was released in France in 1970, it was not only a surprising success with
both the critics and the paying public (Truffaut himself believed the film would flop
because of its austere... [More...]
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Winner of two oscars in 1969 (for best foreign picture, best editing) and awards at Cannes
(the jury prize and best actor for Trintignant), Z is the film that took
1969 by storm... [More...]
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In stark contrast to the crime thrillers with which Belmondo is better known, Le Corps
de mon ennemi has an almost total absence of action and physical displays of violence... [More...]
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