With the rise of Nazism, director Robert Siodmak left Germany in 1933 and moved to Paris,
where he continued his filmmaking career for a few years before settling in Hollywood... [More...]
This early example of the French mystery crime thriller (or ‘polar’) manages
to evoke the American film noir genre which inspired it, most notably in the shadowy sets
and atmospheric photography... [More...]
Clouzot’s first full length film is a mild contrast with the dark, suspense-laden thrillers
for which the director is best known (Les Diaboliques... [More...]
After his three year suspension following the storm that his earlier film, Le Corbeau
, unleashed, Clouzot returned to French cinema with a magnificently crafted detective
thriller... [More...]
Jean Grémillon’s adaptation of Jean Anouilh’s stage play gives the director another
opportunity to combine the themes of tragic romance and anti-Bourgeois sentiment which
predominate in his work... [More...]
Henri Jeanson is best known as a screenwriter, contributing to some of the finest and
most enduring films in French cinema of the 1930s and 1940s, including Hôtel
du nord... [More...]
This heart-rending adaptation of Emile Zola’s novel L’Assomoir is widely regarded
as one of director René Clément’s best films... [More...]
The incomparable – and still enormously popular
– Fernandel
finally finds his match in the form of Suzy Delair in this low-brow but hugely entertaining
farce... [More...]
By the time he came to make Paris
brûle-t-il?, René Clément was one of the most
highly regarded film directors in France. Two of his films had
won Oscars in the Best Foreign Language Film category... [More...]
Attracting around 7.2 million cinema-goers in France alone, Les Aventures de
Rabbi Jacob was by far the most popular film to be released in France in 1973... [More...]
