Tag Archives: Jean-Louis Barrault

a fantasy movie in the 1900 Vienna (film: La Ronde – Max Ophüls, 1950)

The year was 1950 and film director Max Ophüls was returning to Europe. He had spent the decade of the 1940s in the United States, where between 1947 and 1949 he had made four films. He was returning to France, … Continue reading

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a detective vaudeville (film: Drôle de drame – Marcel Carné, 1937)

‘Drôle de drame‘ (1937 – alternative title ‘Bizarre, Bizarre‘), the second film by French director Marcel Carné, has over time acquired the status of a cult film. Criticized and ignored upon its premiere in the tense years before World War … Continue reading

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