A Nous la Liberté (Liberty for Us) (1931)
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Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 0
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À Nous la Liberté is an early talkie from French filmmaker René Clair. Louis (Raymond Cordy) and Emile (Henri Marchand) are a pair of convicts whose lives take decidely different paths after prison. Emile works his way up the ladder of capitalism, becoming a phonograph factory boss, a job that finds him overseeing a bleak outfit of automatous drones. Louis, on the other hand, lives the life of a poverty-stricken vagabond. Despite their contrasting lots, the pair meet up again later in life. À
Art House & International, Classics, Comedy, Drama, Musical & Performing Arts, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Dec 31, 1931 Limited
Aug 20, 2002
Harold Auten
Cast
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Raymond Cordy
Louis -
Henri Marchand
Emile -
Rolla France
Jeanne -
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Jacques Shelly
Paul -
Paul Olivier
Paul Imaque -
André Michaud
Foreman -
Germaine Aussey
Maud -
Léon Lorin
Deaf Old Man -
William Burke
Old Convict -
Vincent Hyspa
Old orator -
Alex D'Arcy
Gigolo
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A period piece in the best sense.
Top CriticIt's well worth a look today as simultaneously vindicating Clair's former high reputation and his subsequent expulsion from most critical pantheons.
A Nous, la Liberté is assuredly different from any other screen feature. It bristles with strange originality.
An engrossing satire on modern society's belief in the new industrialization age, showing the Machine was not mankind's salvation.
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.
...displays Clair's mastery of artful whimsy by mixing sound (especially song), sweet-faced storytelling, and visual skill.
Influential French comedy about a world beyond work.
One of French director Rene Clair's great films, this 1931 poignant exploration of the working conditions of industrial laborers was nominated for the Interior Decoration Oscar.
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.
All of the layers are brought together through Clair's clever use of sound and image.
Its themes are couched in so much wit and silliness that it doesn't take a communist to enjoy it.
Wildly funny, endlessly creative, experimental and utterly charming, it is a too-often overlooked classic.
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.
a delightfully radical farce about freeing oneself from the controls of social and economic oppression
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.
Pioneering... extravagant.
This classic satire on the dehumanization of industrial workers is one of Rene Clair's greatest achievements.
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Foreign Titles
- Freedom for Us (A nous la liberte) (DE)
- Freedom for Us (A nous la liberte) (UK)
