The films of
Sacha Guitry
Bonne chance (1935)
Sacha Guitry 		  Le Roman d'un tricheur (1936)
Sacha Guitry 		  Les Perles de la couronne (1937)
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Sacha Guitry’s second sound film, Bonne Chance, makes a stark contrast to his first, Pasteur (a sober biography of the life of Louis Pasteur)...  [More...]   Regarded as one of Sacha Guitry’s best films, Le Roman d’un tricheur is a hugely entertaining comedy, featuring some unforgettable visual comic gags...  [More...]   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...]  
Ils étaient neuf célibataires (1939)
Sacha Guitry 		  Le Destin fabuleux de Désirée Clary (1942)
Sacha Guitry 		  La Poison (1951)
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Sacha Guitry’s multifarious talents as writer, director and actor are very much exemplified by this boisterous farce, in which Guitry shares the limelight with some leading performers of the day...  [More...]   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...]   If you ignore the lengthy and self-indulgent opening sequence (in which Sacha Guitry tells a rather embarrassed Michel Simon what a good actor he is)...  [More...]  
Tu m'as sauvé la vie (1951)
Sacha Guitry 		  La Vie d'un honnête homme (1953)
Sacha Guitry 		  Si Versailles m'était conté (1954)
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By the time Sacha Guitry came to make Tu m’as sauvé la vie, a film adaptation of one of his later stage plays, he had become an object of contempt and ridicule in the eyes of many critics...  [More...]   As he neared the end of his prolific career as a writer and director, Sacha Guitry expressed, through his work, an increasing sense of pessimism and disillusionment with the world...  [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...]  
Napoléon (1955)
Sacha Guitry 		  Si Paris nous était conté (1956)
Sacha Guitry 		  Assassins et voleurs (1957)
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The scope of this film and its scale are breathtaking – but the end result is only partially successful. Even in his formidable epic of the 1920s...  [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...]   Sacha Guitry was on his deathbed when he wrote and directed Assassins et voleurs, his last film. Guitry’s caustic wit and penchant for irony are very much in evidence and whilst the film is not one of his best...  [More...]  
Les Trois font la paire (1957)
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