This extraordinary early film from director René Clair was originally made to fill
an interval between two acts of Francis Picabia’s new ballet... [More...]
Although lacking the maturity and stature of other silent films of the period, Paris
qui dort is nonetheless one of the most important films in the history of French cinema... [More...]
René Clair skilful transposition of Labiche’s play from the 1850s to the 1890s
provides an outrageously funny satire on bourgeois attitudes... [More...]
In common with many of his contemporaries of the late 1920s, director
René Clair was apprehensive over the transition from silent to
sound cinema... [More...]
René Clair’s musical farce À nous la liberté was one of the
early triumphs of sound cinema and has retained its status as one of the all-time greats
of French cinema... [More...]
Rated as René Clair’s comic masterpiece, the original template for the Hollywood
musicals, and one of the best of the early sound films... [More...]
René Clair has been described as the most quintessentially French of France’s great
film directors, and nowhere is this more apparent than in his poetic elegy to young romance... [More...]
The film that marked René Clair’s long-awaited return to French cinema after his
brief "exile" in the United States, Le silence est d’or is widely regarded as one
of his best works... [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...]
Already renowned for his acutely surreal and optimistic view of life, director René
Clair surpassed himself with this outlandish romantic fantasy... [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...]
After the sophistication and scale of René Clair’s grand melodramas of the late
1940s and early 1950s (such as Le Silence est d’or and Les Grandes manoeuvres
)... [More...]
