Devil in the Flesh
Making lists is an activity moviegoers are fond of. Every year, the same ritual: compilation of the ten best films, with comparative analyses, debates, heated discussions. But what about the ultimate list of the most outstanding films in the history of cinema? That is to say, those films that must be seen, those that have forever transformed the art of cinema, but also our way of seeing a culture, of understanding the world as well as our own lives? This program aims to tackle this challenge with nearly eighty films, produced between 1916 and 1960, while waiting for your lists!
During the First World War, a young woman whose fiancé is at the front takes for lover a high school student too young to be mobilized.
Claude Autant-Lara
Claude Autant-Lara is a French film director. He was also a screenwriter, costume designer, art director and sometime actor. He achieved success with his films Fric-Frac (1939) and Douce (1943), then, after the Second World War, with his adaptation of Raymond Radiguet's novel, Le Diable au corps (1947), L'Auberge rouge (1951), Le Blé en herbe (1954), Le Rouge et le Noir (1954) (adaptation of Stendhal's novel) and, above all, La Traversée de Paris (1956), based on the short story by Marcel Aymé. President of the Syndicat des techniciens from 1948 to 1954, then of the Fédération nationale du spectacle CGT until 1963, he became close to the Front national in the 1980s.
