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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
