Subgenre Sampler
Marseillaise, La (1938)- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Pierre Renoir, Lisa Delamare, Leon Larive… - Renoir's classic depicts events leading up to the French revolution in the 18th Century, electing to extract history from the heart of the common…
Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion) (1937)
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim… - The heroics and hypocrasies of war are illustrated through an imprisoned French squadron in WW1 and their cultured German commandant. A hailed…
César (1936)- Dir. Marcel Pagnol
Feat. Raimu, Orane Demazis, Pierre Fresnay… - Playwright Marcel Parcol takes over the director's reins himself for this concluding part of his Marseille trilogy, following 'Marius' and 'Fanny'.…
Osaka Elegy (1936)- Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Feat. Isuzu Yamada, Yoko Umemura - A counterpart to Mizoguchi's other 1936 film SISTERS OF THE GION, featuring some of the same cast and crew and again focusing on the hardships faced…
Sisters of the Gion (1936)- Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Feat. Isuzu Yamada, Yoko Umemura - An early feminist film from director Kenji Mizoguchi, focusing on two geisha sisters – one of whom enters into a codependent relationship with…
Une Partie de Campagne (A Day in the Country) (1936)- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Sylvia Bataille - This evocative, unfinished short (originally part of a full–length feature) lovingly captures the flirtations of a young girl as she detours…
Le Crime De Monsieur Lange (1935)- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Rene Lefevre, Florelle , Jules Berry - One of the dir.’s early classics. Rene Leferve rises to newsprint fame as the author of the serial “Arizona Jim” after his boss, a…
L'Atalante (1934)- Dir. Jean Vigo
Feat. Michel Simon, Jean Daste - A recently restored master work from the French film archive combines lyrical romance with inspired touches of fantasy.
Ecstasy (1933)- Dir. Gustav Machety
Feat. Hedy Lamarr - Hedy Lamarr came to world attention in this 1932 film, playing a sexually–frustrated bride who goes on a fifteen minute nude romp in an alpine…
Liebelei (1933)- Dir. Max Ophuls
Feat. Arthur Schnitzler - An early work from the German maestro of the tracking shot, whose tale of doomed romance between a young soldier and fraulein (taken from a play by…
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