This book includes four screenplays by four of France's leading film directors, illustrating the development of French film-making from the silent era to the birth of the new wave movement in the late 1950s. Of the two comedies and two tragedies, Rene Clair's "The Italian Straw Hat" (1928) and Max Ophuls' "La Ronde" (1950) are domestic, and explore the dynamics of sex, while Jean Renoir's "La Grande Illusion" (1937) and Henri-Georges Clouzot's "The Wages of Fear" (1953) are studies of human courage and endeavour. This book also includes additional commentary by Jean Renoir, Erich von Stroheim and Karel Reisz.
- ISBN10 0571143849
- ISBN13 9780571143849
- Publish Date 30 July 1990
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 April 2012
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 320
- Language English