France: Poetic Realism, The Popular Front, and the Occupation (1930-1945) m-16

France: Poetic Realism, The Popular Front, and the Occupation (1930-1945)

France Occupation – Study Sheet

 

TERMS/PEOPLE

Poetic Realism - Many of the best-remembered French films of the 1930s belong to a group that has been termed Poetic Realism. This was not a unified movement, like French Impressionism or Soviet Montage; it was, rather, a looser tendency. Poetic Realism films often center on characters living on the margins of society, either as unemployed members of the working class or as criminals. After a life of disappointment, these shabby figures find a last chance at intense, ideal love. After a brief period they are disappointed again, and the films end with the disillusionment or deaths of the central characters. The overall tone is one of nostalgia and melancholy. La Petite Lise. Poetic Realism blossomed in the mid-1930s, and its leading filmmakers were Julien Duvivier, Marcel Carné, and Jean Renoir.

 

FILMS

Le Million (René Clair, 1931) lotto ticket coat – police chase gun mannequin singe
Affaire est Dans le Sac (Pierre Prévert, 1932) hat thief car

Zero for Conduct (Jean Vigo, 1933) boy revolution at private school pillow fight. chaplin

L’ Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934) Chess game on ship phonograph guy jumps in water sees lady

Carnival in Flanders (Jacques Feyder, 1935) Belgian Flemish town. carnival set up guns

Lac aux Dames (Marc Allégret, 1934) landscape mountains, lake canoe, mademoiselle puck

Le Roman d’un Tricheur (Sacha Guitry, 1936) The story of a cheat store mushrooms

Le Drame de Shanghaï (G. W. Pabst, 1938) Showgirls sleezy old man in white suit raise skirt

Le Roman de Werther (Max Ophüls, 1938) Confession woman in cape jesus

La Maternelle (Jean Benoît-Lévy & Marie Epstein, 1933) School unhappy girl Rose romance
also boy who won’t smile.

Harvest (Marcel Pagnol, 1937) Horse and plow seeding pregnant

Pépé le Moko (Julien Duvivier, 1936) Casbah Algiers. pepe the gangster. Ines do I borrow you. no more paris, Marseille.

Le Jour se Lève (Marcel Carné, 1939) Francois murderer trapped in apartment gshots

Toni (Jean Renoir, 1935) Marie tries to drown herself because of Toni’s affair

A Day in the Country (Jean Renoir, 1936) Country inn, women Paris, on swings priest

Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937) bald general with neck brace hospital French dies

The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Jean Renoir, 1935) open of window preg woman dog

La Belle équipe (Julien Duvivier, 1937) guys in front of travel poster dance death

La Vie est à Nous (Renoir et al., 1936) Cartoon terrible capitalists with moustache milk thrown out

La Marseillaise (Jean Renoir, 1938) aristocracy woman playing piano, then park gate

Christian-Jaque L’Assassinat du Père Noël (Christian-Jaque, 1941) Santa boy booze on Santa’s breath and dad’s

Les Visiteurs du Soir (Marcel Carné, 1942) Devils on horse, jester, bear. in love stone

Lumière d’été (Jean Grémillon, 1943) cri cri mtn hotel michele seduce

Les Anges du Péché (Robert Bresson, 1943) convent film noir

Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné, 1945) outside carnival, mimes

Le Corbeau (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1943) funeral poison pen crow

The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939) Christine Robert Marquis de la Chesnaye for three years

andre jurieux pilot

Genevieve

 octave

lisette maid married to Schumacker – gamekeeper

marceau a poacher


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