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“Faubourg Montmartre” is an old-fashioned melodrama,handicapped by a desultory screenplay which blends prostitution on the boulevards,a murder -which will not be explained-,and even hullabaloo in Corse.

This is the story of two sisters, one of them is a semi-whore with her pimp (played by Charles Vanel),the other one (Gaby Morlay) tries to walk the line,in spite of her sisters’ attempts to debauch her.Enter a not-so-handsome young man (A forgotten actor called Pierre Bertin whose performance is absolutely awful)the younger sister falls in love with.

Little by little,the big sister sinks into drug addiction:”I take “coco” she says to her horrified sister.This is the only relative originality of this melodrama.Cocaine is not the good thing to take when you feel depressed and pretty soon,she hears imaginary train whistles in her brain ,and she will wind up in an insane asylum (“you’ll spend some time in the country” says the pure girl) Raymond Bernard is best remembered for his version of “les misérables” and his pacifist film “les croix de bois” .

Faubourg.Montmartre.1931.BDRip.x264-FuFu.mkv

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IMDB:
The history of the Entente Cordiale in the big and small picture, from 1898, when a French officer occupied the village of Fashoda, Sudan to 8 April 1904, when a series or agreements marking the rapprochement between England and France were signed. To this turnaround in public opinion corresponds a parallel evolution in the intimate feelings of two families, one English and the other French which will result in the French heir marrying the English daughter.
—Guy Bellinger

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Synopsis:
‘Clara Stuart, star of music hall and cinema, arrives in Paris, to great public acclaim. She has everything – fame, wealth, and – through her aristocratic husband – a title. Hence, whilst she is worshipped by the masses, she is the object of hatred for Philippe Lutcher, am impoverished artist and notable anarchist. Lutcher shoots Clara Stuart after she gives a public recital, but he cannot bring himself to kill her. At his subsequent trial, the star attempts to plead in her assailant’s favour, but Lutcher rejects her support…’
– Films deFrance

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Subtitles:English, French [SDH]

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Daniele Delorme is a turn-of-the-century teenage courtesan-in-training in the French romantic comedy Gigi (1948). Instructed by her beloved grandmother Yvonne de Bray (Mamita) and glamorous courtesan aunt Gaby Morlay (Alicia) in the art of using her feminine wiles, 16-year-old Gigi learns how to select a man’s cigar, determine the value of the various jewels she will be given by her rich lovers, chew her meat while continuing to carry on a conversation and other priceless tidbits in the feminine arsenal of seduction.

Her first test in l’amour is a plan hatched by her aunt and grandmother who want to unite her with a longtime, wealthy family friend and playboy Gaston (Franck Villard). Gaston has recently had his heart broken by a mistress who betrayed him with her ice skating instructor. The scene where Gaston and fellow rake Honore (Jean Tissier) ride in their car coats and goggles on a primitive automobile to the countryside to expose the lovers’ secret liaison is one of many amusing moments in director Jacqueline Audry’s film.

The man who once brought her candy and played innocent games of cards with Gigi is suddenly transformed into a romantic prospect and the schoolgirl soon falls in love with Gaston. But Gigi surprises both her grandmother and her aunt with the depth of her feminine arsenal of seduction when she actually makes playboy Gaston fall in love with her in this sophisticated French story of true love triumphing over all. The film works so well in large part due to Delorme who conveys both delightful innocence and an independent spirit that surely play no small part in wooing Gaston.

Esteemed French woman of letters Colette penned the novel Gigi in 1945 when she was 72, which was then adapted by French screenwriter Pierre Laroche for this 1948 screen adaptation. But the more familiar Gigi is undoubtedly the 1958 Technicolor Hollywood musical starring Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier as Honore. MGM producer Arthur Freed decided on a musical version of Gigi after watching the French adaptation. In the interim, Gigi had enjoyed some success in a Broadway version starring Audrey Hepburn, who declined to appear in Freed’s film.

Gigi was made by the French director Jacqueline Audry, who once worked as an assistant director under Pabst, Ophuls and others and conveys more of the culture and sophistication of the director’s background than the 1958 Hollywood version. Colette, who wrote the novel on which Gigi was based, was also a music hall dancer, mime and a multitalented woman of letters who wrote books, screenplays and even film criticism as early as 1916, and whose novels often deal with the pain and pleasures of love. Colette injected a fair amount of scandal into her stage work as well, baring her breast in one performance and causing a riot at the Moulin Rouge when she mimed copulation onstage. Audry would go on to direct three more adaptations of works by Colette starring Daniele Delorme.

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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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Marie Prieur, a young doctor, decides to settle down on Ushant, a remote island belonging to Brittany. Little by little she manages to be accepted by the population. One day she meets André Lorenzi, a handsome engineer, and it is love at first sight. Life is wonderful for a while but André wants to marry her only if she remains at home. Despite her strong feelings for André, Marie refuses to give up her vocation and the two lovers part. Marie finds herself alone, with a broken heart.

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Subtitles:English

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A full decade ahead of the New Wavelet Christian Jacque, Louis Jouvet and a belle equipe were showing the Godards and Truffauts how the Big Boys do it and neither Godard nor Truffaut ever made anything even remotely as good as this and Godard never will. It all comes together like clockwork from Henri Jeanson’s caustic script, written at times with a quill dipped in vitriol, to Christian Jaque’s perfect direction which coaxes performances close to perfection from Louis Jouvet on down. Ludmilla Tcherina is especially effective in her very first film which gives her lots of chances to remind us that she was first and foremost a great ballerina and Francois Perier shines as the callow youth besotted with her to the point of attempted suicide. Louis Seigner was still popping up fairly regularly in films at this time (1946) and etches a standout portrait of a ruthless businessman prepared to sacrifice his son on the altar of Mammon and let us not forget Marguerite Moreno adding yet another unforgettable portrait to her gallery of grotesques.

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Gaby Morlay is Irène, the wife of a famous and wealthy lawyer (Charles Vanel), who falls briefly for a young and handsome pianist (Georges Rigaud) while on vacations on the French Riviera. When she comes back to her married life in Paris, she falls prey to a blackmailer, the pianist’s jealous former mistress, while her husband’s behavior becomes more and more unpredictable… Charles Vanel is as usually very good as the betrayed and yet not so innocent husband, a part he has played often. Garboesque Gaby Morlay is less convincing (more theatrical) as his wife. I guess there is nothing to expect from this movie but its premise, which is a melodrama in the French pre-war upper bourgeoisie, with a set of good actors of that time (a special mention to Suzy Prim as the “mistress”, charmingly vulgar, a real Parisian bird), leading men in tuxedos and ladies dressed in lamé gowns and furs.

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