Masterworks of the French Cinema: Italian Straw Hat, La Grand Illusion, La Ronde, Wages of Fear

by JohnWeightman (Editor), JohnWeightman (Editor)

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  Paperback
  1988

  $23.62

  This book includes four screenplays by four of France's leading film directors, illustrating the development of French film-making from the silent era to the birth of the new wave movement in the late 1950s. Two comedies and two tragedies; Rene Clair's The Italian Straw Hat (1928) and Max Ophuls' La Ronde (1950) are domestic, and explore the dynamics of sex, while Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion (1937) and Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Wages of Fear (1953) are studies of human courage and endeavour. This book also includes additional commentary by Jean Renoir, Erich von Stroheim and Karel Reisz.