When her father files bankruptcy and then dies, Rose’s fiancé jilts her; she takes a job as a maid in a Montmartre kindergarten with 150 poor children. Rose gives each child loving attention, and soon she’s their favorite. An especially needy child is Marie, a prostitute’s daughter. Rose and she bond, and Marie is jealous of all attentions paid Rose, especially those of Dr. Libois, the school’s physician. When Rose inadvertently guides the children through the educational experiment of a visiting scholar, and then discloses she has a college degree and is working beneath her station, the principal wants to fire her. Is there any way she can stay? And what will happen to Marie?

Children.of.Montmarte.1933.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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#1:  	French 2.0ch AC-3 @ 256 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/B79BC7604D64584/Children.of.Montmarte.1933.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English (Hardcoded)

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Jacques Averil leads an idle life that plunges him into lassitude and melancholy.
When he learns of his father’s suicide, a banker ruined by a shady ore speculation in Iceland,
he decides to take matters into his own hands.
An old friend of his father offers him the chance to sign on as a sailor aboard a terre-neuvas.
On the trawler, the law of the strongest, even the fiercest even the most ferocious…

Vent debout 1923 René Leprince WEB 1080.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 25 min
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#1:  	2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/4B8A85A7DB68489/Vent_debout_1923_Rene_Leprince_WEB_1080.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/AAFA3E8CF9149A2/Vent_debout_1923_René_Leprince_WEB_1080.srt

Language(s):French
Subtitles:French

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Summary
This tender, muscular, fatalistic film rematches Jean Gabin and Michèle Morgan (after Le quai des brumes) in an anguished love triangle with Madeleine Renaud, Grémillon’s favorite actress. Love, obligation and desire play out against the backdrop of the merciless ocean and the seductive escape of sea-going.

Laurent (Gabin) is a tugboat owner who rescues a merchant vessel from a violent sea. Besides its unscrupulous captain, the rescued ship’s most dangerous cargo is his restless and seductive wife (Morgan). Meanwhile, Gabin’s devoted but ailing wife (Renaud) waits impatiently for him at home…

As dbdumonteil notes, the plot is banal… but Gabin, Prévert and Armand Thirard’s luminous lighting paint it in forty shades of grey.
(filmnutz)

Remorques - Jean Gremillon (1941).mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 24 min
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https://nitro.download/view/C38EE767748B2C2/Remorques_-_Jean_Gremillon_(1941).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/12D95D0A7DFC64B/Remorques_-_Jean_Gremillon_(1941).en.srt

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Jean Grémillon – Remorques aka Stormy Waters (1941) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A shimmering glass hotel at the top of a remote Provençal mountain provides the setting for a tragicomic tapestry about an obsessive love pentangle, whose principals range from an artist to a hotel manager to a dam worker. Scripted by Jacques Prévert and Pierre Laroche, the film was banned from theaters for the duration of the occupation for its dark portrayal of the hedonistic excesses of the ruling class. Today, it is often singled out as Jean Grémillon’s greatest achievement. Written by Anonymous

	
Lumiere.dete.1943.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-SbR.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 50 min
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https://nitro.download/view/8E409E6AEE1FF4E/Lumiere.dete.1943.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-SbR.mkv
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https://nitro.download/view/D84FBD9501D0803/Lumiere.dete.1943.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-SbR.part1.rar
https://nitro.download/view/75063CE6412FF90/Lumiere.dete.1943.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-SbR.part2.rar
https://nitro.download/view/ECE7980B3DA923A/Lumiere.dete.1943.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-SbR.part3.rar
https://nitro.download/view/4355D2E0511A5C9/Lumiere.dete.1943.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-SbR.part4.rar

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English (Hardcoded)

The post Jean Grémillon – Lumière d’été (1943) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Below is an apt “user comment” from the film’s IMDB page. For my money, LA MATERNELLE is an even greater film than ZERO FOR CONDUCT, which is saying a lot.

“Until I saw this film at a Cinema Conference in Aberdeen in 1995 I was ignorant of the fact that a woman director had produced poetic and social cinema comparable with Vigo’s ZERO DE CONDUITE (certainly one of the greatest films ever). Vigo in 1933 is revolutionary anarchist with modernist poetry at his finger tips; Epstein in 1933 is warm-hearted popular front realism with magnificent performances by nursery school kids, though the main schoolgirl is a little older (and in love with her teacher, like the protagonist in Leontine Sagan’s MAIDENS IN UNIFORM 1931). And that teacher (unqualified according to the authorities) is a young Madeleine Renaud, dazzlingly soft focus in the tradition of French poetic realism. It should be shown this film as source material for pedagogical controversy and reform (Epstein’s approach is after Rousseau progressive and child-centred). And it should be on everybody’s list as one of the greatest films of all time. You can’t have your Vigo without your Epstein… .”

782MB | 1h 21m | 720×480 | avi

https://nitroflare.com/view/D272A55522C841D/LA_MATERNELLE.avi

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Jean Benoît-Lévy & Marie Epstein – La Maternelle AKA Children of Montmartre (1933) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A film thought to be lost until 5 reels (out of 9) were found in the UCLA archives. It was derived from an eponymous play by Marcel Achard which allowed to reconstruct he synopsis. Jean Gabin is the captain of the Cormorant, a horse-drawn barge, living happily along the canals with his sister Mique and Sylvestre (Pierre Blanchar), his fellow mariner and friend. The film starts with Gabin rescuing a young lady named Marinette (Madeleine Renaud) who had fallen in the canal for unsaid reason. Gabin soon also falls (for her), they get married and the boat is renamed ‘la Belle Marinière’ (the handsome she-mariner). During the wedding party returns Sylvestre (a handsome he-mariner) who had been away for the necessities of the script. He will now be the object of a growing interest from Marinette which results in the expected confict between the two men.

1.46GB | 55m 32s | 1444×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/BF3066C003C6891/Lachman_-_La_Belle_Mariniere_(1932).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/1173ACD913FBCBC/Lachman_-_La_Belle_Marinière_(1932).srt

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Harry Lachman – La belle marinière (1932) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

MG REVIEW
“Maria Chapdelaine” beautifully supports and sustains French filmmaker Julien Duvivier’s gift for “poetic realism.” At base, this is a simple 19th century romantic triangle. Canadian lass Madeleine Renaud is adored with equal fervor by aristocratic Jean-Pierre Aumont and by crude lumberjack Jean Gabin. Her indecision paves the way for tragedy. Yes, Maria Chapdelaine is a bit old-fashioned in technique and story material, but that fact never stopped Duvivier from turning out a film of genuine merit. Though the 1984 remake, directed by Gilles Carle, is superior to Duvivier’s, the earlier film shouldn’t be ignored”

1.19GB | 1 h 16 min | 762×572 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/391A7F4F5201278/Maria.Chapdelaine.1934.DVDRip.x264-KG.mkv
https://nitroflare.com/view/B5BA2C8FB71BBE2/Maria.Chapdelaine.1934.DVDRip.x264-KG.en.srt

Language:French
Subtitles:English (srt)

The post Julien Duvivier – Maria Chapdelaine (1934) first appeared on Cinema of the World.