From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain Backdrop Blur
From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain Poster
9.0 0h 58m

From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain

Sitting at his desk, Guitry gives us a lecture on French history from Joan of Arc to the Occupation, with some focus on a number of its great writers and musicians.

Top Cast

  • Sacha Guitry

    Sacha Guitry

    Narrator (voice)

  • Michèle Alfa

    Michèle Alfa

    (voice)

  • Aimé Clariond

    Aimé Clariond

    (voice)

  • Jean Cocteau

    Jean Cocteau

    Reciter (voice)

  • René Fauchois

    René Fauchois

    (voice)

  • Jacqueline Francell

    Jacqueline Francell

    (voice)

  • Jean Hervé

    Jean Hervé

    (voice)

  • Hélène Perdrière

    Hélène Perdrière

    (voice)

  • Suzy Prim

    Suzy Prim

    (voice)

Overview

Sitting at his desk, Guitry gives us a lecture on French history from Joan of Arc to the Occupation, with some focus on a number of its great writers and musicians.

Rating

9.0 / 10
1 Reviews
0 Popular

Recommendations

Shoah

Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories – survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators – Lanzmann presents testimonies from survivors of the Chelmno concentration camp, an Auschwitz escapee, and witnesses of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as well as a chilling report of gas chambers from an SS officer at Treblinka.

Shoah

8.2 1985
Visions of Light

Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography and of the "DP" (the director of photography), illustrating their points with clips from 100 films, from Birth of a Nation to Do the Right Thing. Themes: the DP tells people where to look; changes in movies (the arrival of sound, color, and wide screens) required creative responses from DPs; and, these artisans constantly invent new equipment and try new things, with wonderful results. The narration takes us through the identifiable studio styles of the 30s, the emergence of noir, the New York look, and the impact of Europeans. Citizen Kane, The Conformist, and Gordon Willis get special attention.

Visions of Light

7.0 1992
Ronaldo

Filmed over 14 months with unprecedented access into the inner circle of the man and the sport, this is the first official and fully authorised film of one of the most celebrated figures in football. For the first time ever, the world gets vividly candid and un-paralleled, behind-closed-doors access to the footballer, father, family-man and friend in this moving & fascinating documentary. Through in-depth conversations, state of the art football footage and never before seen archival footage, the film gives an astonishing insight into the sporting and personal life of triple Ballon D'Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo at the peak of his career. From the makers of ‘Senna’ and ‘Amy’, Ronaldo takes audiences on an intimate and revealing journey of what it’s like to live as an iconic athlete in the eye of the storm.

Ronaldo

7.0 2015