French film: 'The Golden Age'

Five films you must watch

The ‘golden age’ of French film-making produced some of the great historical epics and possibly the finest French film of all time.

If you want to be able to hold your own in any discussion of French film, you need to know about this period, where satire and realism dominated.

The films

“I just wanted to make a movie, even a pleasant movie, but a pleasant movie that would at the same time function as a critique of a society I considered rotten to the core…” Jean Renoir on La Règle du Jeu

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