This is a retelling of Tristan and Isolde, set in 1940s France. The script was written by Jean Cocteau.Read More »
Jean Murat
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Jean Delannoy – L’éternel retour AKA Love Eternal AKA The Eternal Return (1943)
France1941-1950DramaFrench cinema under the OccupationJean DelannoyRomance -
Jacques Feyder – La Kermesse héroïque AKA Carnival in Flanders (1935)
France1931-1940ComedyJacques FeyderRomance
When the village of Boom, in Flanders, learns a Spanish Duke and his troops plan to pass the night, the 4-man army deserts and the Mayor plays dead; so the Mayor’s wife organizes the townswomen to greet the invaders and preserve the peace with womanly wiles.Read More »
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Anatole Litvak – L’Équipage aka Flight into darkness (1935)
1931-1940Anatole LitvakDramaFranceWar
Filmmaker Anatole Litvak was still one year away from his “breakthrough” picture Mayerling when he co-wrote and directed L’Equipage (The Crew). Charles Vanel and Annabella star respectively as a daring WW I aviator and his loving but neglected wife. Ostracized by the other pilots because of his recklessness and standoffishness, Vanel nonetheless befriends a young flyboy (Jean-Pierre Aumont). It is therefore a great source of consternation for Aumont when he discovers that the woman with whom he’s fallen in love is none other than Vanel’s wife Annabella.Read More »