An incisive exploration of the dubious beauty of "official" art.

Irène is the unhappy wife of a wealthy publisher, Jacques Voisin-Larive, who cares about her no more than a beautiful piece of furniture. Her meeting with Étienne, a young cabinetmaker with whom she falls in love, turns her dismal existence upside down. Not wanting to reveal her condition to her lover, she pretends to be a modest maid, employed by the Voisin-Larive. At the end of a weekend spent with her lover, Irène discovers that she is pregnant. The fragile balance of their existence is suddenly broken. Taking the initiative, she reveals her affair to Jacques and tells him about her desire to divorce. But her husband has no intention of giving her back her freedom...

Documentary about famous artists such as Dunoyer de Segonzac, Masson, Miró, Naly and Treemois who continue the tradition of colour engraving and produce rare stamps for high class books.

The film starts by a visit to bucolic Normandy before the events. This peaceful atmosphere is shattered by Operation Overlord, minutely described in the second part of the documentary. The landing on D-Day and the ensuing battles and bombings martyr the peaceful area giving the earth thousands of body instead of seeds. In the last part, the dreadful aftermath of the steel storm is shown both with sympathy for the victims and hope for the future, since all these sacrifices, whether military or civilians, have not been in vain.

Jean Grémillon’s first talkie, the 1930 LA PETITE LISE, is anything but talky. While opening and closing with soulful afro-Latin strains, something just above silence reigns throughout the film. Grémillon is already orchestrating the auditory menace of nuanced sound sculpting that would later pervade REMORQUES (1941), setting forth evolving rhythmic figures at an atmospheric whisper. Grémillon grafts this aural frieze onto smoldering b&w photography. Truly, the frame is often smoking for purposes of motif. In truth, this film has the most impressive use of sound I know of, including Bresson’s MOUCHETTE. It’s up for speculation as to how much technical issues played into his creative use of sound and off-screen. What is of particular note is that instead of milking the capability of sync sound dialogue, Grémillon uses it very sparingly, increasing the range of expressiveness. An abstract score of atmospheric insinuation is always in accompaniment with the imagery tonally, rhythmically and dynamically. Listening carefully, ambient sound isever at work in a subliminal music score. The story of LA PETITE LISE belongs to the sandbox of melodrama, but Grémillon grinds it into expressionistic minimalism. What is this story? Perhaps it will suffice to say that it is the reunion of a father fresh out of prison with his daughter now grown up, all prepared under a pressure cooker of lens and mic. Conflagrations arise periodically from the embers of troubled quiet, with lighting flickering to and from peaks of intensity. Emblazoned gestures extend from the sustain of affective brood, while conversations flare up before subsiding back into the simmering cauldron.

An eccentric man (Paul Bernard) endangers himself when he makes advances toward the girlfriend (Suzy Delair) of a saloon keeper (Fernand Ledoux).

Outwardly, Monsieur Victor would appear to be the model citizen. A respectable Toulon shopkeeper, he has a devoted wife and is courteous and considerate to all who know him. However, beneath this veneer of respectability hides a notorious receiver of stolen goods, who trades with hardened criminals. Victor manages to keep up his double life without any difficulty until the fateful day when one of his partners in crime threatens to expose him. Fearing a scandal, Victor kills the crook in a moment of panic, using a shoemaker's tool. Naturally, the murder is blamed on a local shoemaker, who is sentenced to ten years' hard labour. Seven years later, the former shoemaker reappears in Toulon, having escaped from prison. The first person to recognise him is Monsieur Victor...

During the civil war, two soldiers attend a pregnant girl from a wealthy Madrid. One can not help but fall in love with her.

On a luxury liner going to the colonies Smith embarked, an illusionist black, and his wife Dainah, a mixed race. During a dancing party, this one is unleashed and provokes the envy of Michaux, a mechanic on board. When she leaves on the bridge, Michaux throws herself on her but she pushes him violently and bites her arm. The next day, the Commander showed her the liner and she recognized her assailant on her arm bandaged

In a lighthouse off the coast of Brittany, a young man slowly goes mad following a bite by a rabid dog while his father looks on helplessly. Thwarted by a raging sea, they are prisoners of the lighthouse. In a rustic Brittany village, a young bride waits, unaware of the tragedy.

Marie, a young doctor, settles down on the Ouessant Island. She will be able to win the diffidence of the local population but she will have to fight for her independence after falling in love with an italian engineer.

对于Cyclone号拖船的船长André Laurent (Jean Gabin) 以及一众船员而言，生活被海上的疾风暴雨与岸上的温暖家庭一分为二。某次惊险的出海，André拯救了魅惑的Catherine ( Michèle Morgan) 并为之倾倒。他无法自拔地远离了温柔却焦虑过度的十年发妻Yvonne (Madeleine Renaud) 。雅克·普莱维尔的编剧营造了出色氛围。本片对海上暴风雨的特技表现堪称四十年代的先驱。

The strength of a couple's fascination with airplanes and flight is to the detriment of their family.

《安德烈·马松与四种元素》（André Masson et les quatre éléments，让·格莱米勇，1958年|24分钟|16毫米|红色单彩|有声）表现了法国超现实主义画家安德烈·马松（1896—1987）的创作历程及其所思所想。安德烈·马松在第一次世界大战期间曾经应征入伍并受重伤，这段经历使他对人生产生了悲观情绪，与之相伴的是他对人类天性和命运的关注，以及对宇宙神秘性的朦胧信念，他毕生的创作活动都在致力于理解和表现这种关注和信念。1923年，他采用象征手法创作了著名画作《四种元素》。1947年，他定居在法国南部充满阳光的普罗旺斯，这个时期他的绘画手法趋于完整和灵巧。本片导演让·格莱米勇（Jean Grémillon，1898—1959）生于法国诺曼底，1920年代来到巴黎求学，起初学习音乐，当过无声电影的音乐伴奏员，并在这个过程中培养了对电影的热爱。1920年代，他拍过近20部纪录片。后来，他既拍纪录片也拍故事片，主要故事片有《情欲》（1937）、《夏日之光》（1943）、《天空属于你们》（1944）、《一个女人的爱情》（1954）。在法国电影界，格莱米勇被称为“被诅咒的”电影艺术家，因为虽然许多人公认他的电影艺术才华（尤其是实验电影方面的才华），但是他的影片很少获得商业成功。

Lucien Bourrache, a good looking non-commissioned officer at the Spahis, is used to charm many women. He met Madeleine Courtois at Cannes. She is beautiful and lives in luxury. He lends her a large amount of money, which she loses gambling. Then she drops him. But Lucien is now in love, and once demobilized, he goes to Paris to find her again. But he's not so sexy without his uniform, and Madeleine and him do not belong to the same milieu.

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.