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Port of Shadows (French: Le Quai des brumes [lə kɛ de bʁym], "The dock of mists") is a 1938 French film directed by Marcel Carné. An example of poetic realism, it stars Jean Gabin, Michel Simon and Michèle Morgan. The screenplay was written by Jacques Prévert based on a novel by Pierre Mac Orlan. [1] The music score was by Maurice Jaubert.
The film premiered at the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival on 23 August 2014. [5] Annie Cordy and the entire crew received a standing-ovation at the end of the projection. [6] On 5 October 2014, the film was also screened at the Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur, where it was also praised by the audience. On 11 October ...
Les petites filles modèles (English: Good Little Girls) is a novel for children by the Countess of Ségur first published in May 1858.It is the second book of a trilogy (sometimes called the Fleurville Trilogy), with Sophie's Misfortunes (1858) and Les vacances (English: The Holidays) ().
Rémi St-Michel is a Canadian film director from Quebec. [1] He is most noted for his short films Little Brother (Petit frère), which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015, [2] and Heart Bomb (Une bombe au cœur), which was a Prix Iris nominee for Best Live Action Short Film at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2020.
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (French for "The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne") is a 1945 French film directed by Robert Bresson. [1] It is a modern adaptation of the story of Madame de La Pommeraye from Denis Diderot's Jacques le fataliste (1796) that tells the tale of a man who is tricked into marrying a prostitute.
On October 22, 1988, an integrist Catholic group set fire to the Saint Michel cinema in Paris while it was showing the film The Last Temptation of Christ.A little after midnight, an incendiary device ignited under a seat in the less supervised underground room, where a different film was being shown.
Madeleine is a 1950 British period film noir directed by David Lean, based on a true story of Madeleine Smith, a young Glasgow woman from a wealthy family who was tried in 1857 for the murder of her lover, Emile L'Angelier. The trial was much publicised in the newspapers of the day and labelled "the trial of the century".
Mont-Saint-Michel is a World Wonder in Civilization VI. [36] Mont-Saint-Michel is featured in Onimusha 3: Demon Siege in which the abbey is overrun by demons in both the 16th and 21st centuries and subsequently destroyed. A fictionalized version of the island, Beaumont-Saint-Denis, serves as the location for Sniper Elite 5's third mission. [37]