All about French cinema
Director: Jean Renoir (1938)
Based on a novel by Emile Zola, La Bete Humaine weaves a mesmerizing tale of a tragic triangle. Train engineer Jean Gabin lusts after Simone Simon, the wife of his co-worker Fernand Ledoux. When Ledoux is in danger of losing his job, Simon offers herself to her husband’s boss. In jealous pique, [...]
Director: Jean Renoir (1939)
Widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir’s masterpiece THE RULES OF THE GAME is a devastating satire of the pre-WWII French aristocracy. Starring Marcel Dalio as wealthy landowner Marquis Robert de la Chesnaye, it charts the shifting relationships among the guests at a weekend hunting party on [...]
Director: Jean Renoir (1937)
Probably the most loved of Renoir’s films, certainly the most feted, dealing as it does with the common bonds between men across national, class and religious barriers. In WWI, three French soldiers – played by Pierre Fresnay, Jean Gabin and Marcel Dalio – become POWs under the monocle of a German commander [...]
fernando on Combien tu m’aimes (How much do you love me):
dr adnan on Lacombe Lucien:
Carol Denker on La rafle (The round-up):
Alan on Dialogue avec mon jardinier:
John on La belle noiseuse: