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Wooden Crosses (French: Les Croix de Bois) is a 1932 French anti-war film by Raymond Bernard based upon the autobiography of the same name written by Roland Dorgelès.
Originally a Norman word, it has also spread to neighboring regions, [2] as can be seen in the various dictionaries relating to this dialect. [1] According to Joret, in his Dictionnaire du patois du Bessin, hōle, houōle has the meaning of "hollow where fish hide", then for Jean Fleury in Patois de la Hague, it means "a hole, a cave, especially in rocks".
Illustration for the tale "La houle du châtelet", 1883.Published in Paul Sébillot's Contes de terre et de mer.. The stories and fragments of legends have many features in common, enabling us to reconstruct the idea that the inhabitants of the north coast of Upper Brittany had of the houles fairies in the 19th century.
The Moving Statue (French: La liberté d'une statue) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Olivier Asselin and released in 1990. [1] An experimental black-and-white film inspired by the silent film era, [2] the film is presented as an old Egyptian silent film that has just recently been rediscovered, and is being translated to the viewing audience by means of a deaf lip reader whose sign ...
The title derives from a French children's song, "Nous n'irons plus au bois" ("We'll go to the woods no more"), where the withering of the laurel tree is a prelude to regrowth, the latter period marked by joyous song and dance. The novel adheres to that spirit, capturing the thoughts of a student in Paris over a six-hour period in the spring.
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.
Méliès (third from left) and friends in film 1 Edison panoramic film of the Place de l'Opéra in 1900, shortly after it was featured in films 10, 17, and 139 Postcard of the Boulevard des Italiens, the location for films 18 and 85 An 1886 Van Gogh view of the Bois de Boulogne, where films 20, 21, and 50 were made The beach at Trouville-sur ...
In the 1960s she appeared in New Wave films such as Jules and Jim and The Thief of Paris, thrillers like Hot Line, and comedies like La Ronde, La Grande Vadrouille, and Monte Carlo or Bust. Other film appearances by Dubois during the 1970s include L'Innocente , The Surveyors , Vincent, François, Paul et les autres , Night Flight from Moscow ...