“The people of France…will not tolerate this warmongering film dishonoring our screens any longer.” That was the great French film historian and critic Georges Sadoul, writing in L’Humanité, the co…

Aujourd’hui, Maman est morte. “Maman died today.” But two days later, Meursault went to the movies. Meursault, of course, is the hero—if that’s the right term—of Albert Camus’ 1942 novel, L’Étrange…

Even the collaborationist press in France was outraged when,in May 1943, the Nazi occupying authority declared a new edict regarding the country’s cinema. La Gazette, covering the news in Biarritz,…

“Does Adrienne Górska think this is a feminine profession? Yes, she does!” That was the emphatic assertion that Suzanne Normand made in the news and culture magazine Marianne in her February 1936 p…