It's well worth a look today as simultaneously vindicating Clair's former high reputation and his subsequent expulsion from most critical pantheons.
01/26/06 03:16 AM
A Nous La Liberte (1931)
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Reviews Counted: 17 Fresh: 17 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.1/10
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Synopsis:
Two prisoners attempt an escape, but only one makes it. He becomes a successful business man and when his friend finally gets out of jail he hires his old escape partner. Many madcap adventures happen everywhere they go. Academy Award Nominations: Best Interior Decoration.... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Raymond Cordy, Henri Marchand, Rolla France, Paul Ollivier
Reviews
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Top Critic Compared to his contemporaries Jean Renoir and Jean Vigo, Clair was a minor talent, though both of these films do contain innovative uses of sound mixed with silent film.
01/10/08 06:47 PM
...displays Clair's mastery of artful whimsy by mixing sound (especially song), sweet-faced storytelling, and visual skill.
04/06/06 10:40 AM
The French have no equal when it comes to perfectly aligned bottom-kicking, showing revulsion at the ill-breeding of others, or performing semi-socialist slapstick.
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08/07/04 12:36 PM
All of the layers are brought together through Clair's clever use of sound and image.
01/12/04 12:26 AM
Its themes are couched in so much wit and silliness that it doesn't take a communist to enjoy it.
10/15/03 04:36 PM
If Mickey Mouse met Les Miserables, this would be their love child.
09/30/03 05:52 AM
A Nous, la Liberté is assuredly different from any other screen feature. It bristles with strange originality.
06/12/03 05:20 PM
Top Critic Wildly funny, endlessly creative, experimental and utterly charming, it is a too-often overlooked classic.
11/25/02 11:31 AM
Deserves to come out from under the long shadows cast by Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times, and bask in the adulation of a whole new generation of filmgoers.
11/21/02 03:19 PM
a delightfully radical farce about freeing oneself from the controls of social and economic oppression
09/18/02 08:27 AM
If the notion of a 1931 semi-silent French movie doesn’t scare you off, this minor masterpiece might be worth checking out. Political historians and film fanatics will be especially interested.
09/17/02 02:41 PM
This classic satire on the dehumanization of industrial workers is one of Rene Clair's greatest achievements.
01/01/00 12:00 AM
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