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René Clair, the most distinguished of the French motion-picture directors, is one of the great men of the cinema. His triumphant photoplays, Sous les toits de Paris, Le Million and, the finest of them all, A nous la liberté, stand among the genuine classics of the films. Now M. Clair, who has tried cheerful sentiment in Sous les toits, farce in Le Million, and brilliant social satire in A nous la liberté, gives up some of his adventurousness and returns to the quiet romantic mood of his earliest success in the new work called Quatorze juillet (“Fourteenth of July”). Read More »
George Rigaud
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René Clair – Quatorze juillet AKA Bastille Day (1933)
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Max Ophüls – Sans lendemain AKA There’s No Tomorrow AKA Without Tomorrow (1939)
Max Ophüls1931-1940ClassicsDramaFranceSynopsis:
The story of a once-respectable woman who re-encounters her first love, now a successful doctor. Reduced to nude-dancing in a sleazy dive, with a son to support, Evelyne (Edwige Feuillère) borrows money at an outrageous interest rate in order to create a facade of respectability–and, it goes without saying, Georges falls in love with her all over again. But how can Evelyne maintain her bourgeois value and save son and “father” from the consequences of her fall?Read More » -
Carlos Hugo Christensen – Dieciséis años AKA Sixteen (1943)
1941-1950ArgentinaCarlos Hugo ChristensenDramaRomancePlot
An early CHC melodrama produced by Lumiton in 1943. Based on the British play Sixteen by Aimée & Philip Stuart.A naive teenager faces a distressing reality when her widowed mother finds love anew 12 years after her first marriage ended.Read More »