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.
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01/10/08
A Nous La Liberte (1931)
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Reviews Counted:16
Fresh:16
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.1/10
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
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... [More]
Starring: Raymond Cordy, Henri Marchand, Rolla France, Paul Ollivier
Director: René Clair
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Reviews for A Nous La Liberte
1 - 17 (sorted by critic A-Z)
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
...displays Clair's mastery of artful whimsy by mixing sound (especially song), sweet-faced storytelling, and visual skill.
04/06/06
All of the layers are brought together through Clair's clever use of sound and image.
01/12/04
Its themes are couched in so much wit and silliness that it doesn't take a communist to enjoy it.
10/15/03
Influential French comedy about a world beyond work.
08/13/05
A Nous, la Liberté is assuredly different from any other screen feature. It bristles with strange originality.
06/12/03
Top CriticWildly funny, endlessly creative, experimental and utterly charming, it is a too-often overlooked classic.
11/25/02
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
a delightfully radical farce about freeing oneself from the controls of social and economic oppression
09/18/02
Pioneering... extravagant.
08/11/02
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
A period piece in the best sense.
01/08/08
Top CriticThis classic satire on the dehumanization of industrial workers is one of Rene Clair's greatest achievements.
01/01/00
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03/26/09
Top CriticThe 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.
08/07/04
No review available.
06/18/05
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