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The films of
Yves Montand
Yves Montand
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Étoile sans lumière (1946) Marcel Blistène |
Les Portes de la nuit (1946) Marcel Carné |
Souvenirs perdus (1950) Christian-Jaque |
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| Despite being a somewhat lacklustre melodrama (typifying the blandness of French cinema immediately after the Liberation), Étoile sans lumière retains a certain interest value with enthusiasts of cinema... [More...] | Les Portes de la nuit marked the beginning of a dramatic decline in the fortunes of its director Marcel Carné. Prior to and during World War II... [More...] |
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L'Auberge rouge (1951) Claude Autant-Lara |
Le Salaire de la peur (1953) Henri-Georges Clouzot |
Les Héros sont fatigués (1955) Yves Ciampi |
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| (1946) and Occupe-toi d’Amélie (1949), Claude Autant-Lara established himself as one of France’s leading directors of quality films in the 1940s... [More...] | Probably one of the most harrowing two and half hours of cinema, Le salaire de la peur is not a film for the squeamish – or the sentimental. It is director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s undisputed masterpiece and... [More...] | War-time heroes reduced to mercenary activities in some remote colonial backwater. The desperation of a passionate woman to escape a loveless marriage and find some meaning in her life... [More...] |
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Napoléon (1955) Sacha Guitry |
Premier mai (1958) Luis Saslavsky |
Let's Make Love (1960) George Cukor |
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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...] |
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This lightweight musical comedy was a box office disaster when it was first released, despite an impressive cast. Pairing off the international sex symbols Monroe and Montand may have seemed a good idea on paper but their... [More...] |
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Goodbye Again (1961) Anatole Litvak |
Compartiment tueurs (1965) Costa-Gavras |
La Guerre est finie (1966) Alain Resnais |
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Costa-Gavras made his directoral debut with this fast-moving, convoluted but magnificently assembled crime thriller. The film reflects the director’s interest for American film noir and... [More...] | The stylish ambiguity and other-worldliness, achieved through some stunning photography, in Resnais’ early films would appear inappropriate for a political thriller... [More...] |
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Paris brûle-t-il? (1966) René Clément |
Vivre pour vivre (1967) Claude Lelouch |
Un soir, un train (1968) André Delvaux |
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| 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...] |
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André Delvaux directed this haunting mélange of dream and reality, his second full-length film after his acclaimed L’Homme au crâne rasé (1966)... [More...] |
