It was under the Occupation that director Claude Autant-Lara proved his mettle and established
himself as one of the finest directors of his generation... [More...]
Whilst not necessarily the best film of its time, Lumière d’été
is certainly one of the most important films made in France during World War
II... [More...]
Although the crime thriller had not yet achieved the popularity in France which it would
in the following decade, the 1940s was really where the genre had its origins... [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...]
Claude Chabrol’s third film shows a marked departure from his two earlier films,
Le Beau Serge and Les Cousins. For one thing, it is his first film
to be made in colour... [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...]
Despite all the bad press it has received, Orson Welles’ Le Procès (a.k.a.
The Trial) is one of the great cinematrographic achievments of the Twentieth Century... [More...]
Having appeared in four of Claude Sautet’s previous films, mainly in significant
supporting roles, Austrian-born actress Romy Schneider takes centre stage in Une
histoire simple... [More...]
Distinguished cinematographer Bruno Nuytten directed this epic biographical drama of the
life of Camille Claudel, France’s most famous female sculptor and a disciple of the great
Rodin... [More...]
