Word: libert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Director RenéClair won his first fame with a simple love story. Sous Les Toits de Paris, his second fame and third with brilliant satiric farragos, Le Million and A Nous La Liberté. July 14 is a simple love story of a blonde flower-seller (Annabella) and a taxi-driver (Georges Rigaud). Across the street in the shadow of Montmartre they fall in love on July 13th. They talk in the street, that night go to the street ball after she has lost her job in a cabaret for slapping an old drunkard (Paul Olivier). That night...
...LIBERT CHANDLER...
...some U. S. newspapers lapsed into giving the offhand impression that Senator Borah favors cancellation with no strings attached, the French Press did not. ANOTHER THREAT TO FRANCE bristled the Paris Liberté. "The man who is more important than the President in directing American foreign policy in the name of the Senate now asserts brutally that debts and disarmament are linked! He asserts that military and financial problems should be settled by a new conference under Washington's orders. Is France eager to put her head under the knife of the guillotine...
...Nous, La Liberté! (Tobis-Paris). French Director René Clair has made a brilliant attempt to do it all in one picture-comedy, romance, adventure, slapstick and satire on industry, prisons, society, the Machine Age and love. Amazingly, the film makes brilliant sense in every department, even to audiences ignorant of French. The picture opens with long rows of convicts tapping away at wooden toy horses. Two friends plan an escape. Louis (Raymond Cordy) succeeds, knocks over a bicyclist and rides victoriously into the finish of a bicycle race. He progressively masters burgher manners and the industrial system, becomes...
...Hollywood wanted me for five years. If they are happy, they keep me; if I am unhappy, I must stay. It is not good for me. ... It is more important to make good pictures than good money. . . . Money they can give you; liberty they cannot." A Nous, La Liberté! was passed by the French censor after Liberty-Lover Clair had made some requested changes. Good shots: a crowd of silk hats in the factory yard running away from the camera; the parallel of the factory assembling table and the prison workshop...