Why does everyone love this film?” This is a question the French director Marcel Carné asked himself late in his career in a BBC documentary discussing his masterpiece, Les Enfants du Paradis (1945).

Many standard reference works cite Aug. 18, 1909, as the birthdate of the famous French movie director Marcel Carne. Evidently, he had succeeded in fudging the date by three years, making it feasible ...

Classic French cinema is nothing new to the long running distribution company StudioCanal, Having previously released a collection of Jean-Pierre Melville’s films, and the complete works of Jacques ...

Of all the memorable films starring French icon Jean Gabin, including “Grand Illusion,” “Pepe le Moko” and “La Bete Humaine,” none has been harder to see in its original version, or more richly ...

One of the peaks of “poetic realism”, the 1930s film school known for its combination of leftwing attitudes, visual and verbal lyricism and a pessimistic view of lower-class characters snared by a ...

Streaming platforms for Le drôle de drame de Marcel Carné haven’t been announced yet. Check back soon for updates on where you can watch it online.

Marcel Carne has conceived a brilliant but curiously cold film. Story of illicit love in a lower-class bourgeois setting is done with a care that that removes its melodramatic aspects and makes it an ...

Paul Risker talks to Ginette Vincendeau, King's College professor of film studies, about the enduring influence of Marcel Carné's masterpiece Le Jour Se lève If you’ve read something you love on our ...

Through the life and career of Marcel Carné, using film excerpts and archives (including touching interviews with the director), François Aymé weaves a fascinating portrait of a hypersensitive man who ...