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Le Ciel est à Vous

Le Ciel est à Vous (1944)
November 18, 2015 - 7:30 pm

Le Ciel est à Vous  (France, 1944)


A working-class auto mechanic and his wife become enrapt with an emergent vision and goal: that the wife should compete in an aviation contest and seek a women's flying record.  The sweeping, luminous drama was seemingly well-suited to the Vichy period, with its themes of escape and freedom, and skirted official sanction with its covert deployment of those themes in a story of personal triumph.

16mm, b/w, in French with English subtitles, 105 min.  Production: Les Films Raoul Ploquin.  Distribution: Consortium du Film.  Producer: Raoul Ploquin.  Director: Jean Grémillon.  Screenwriter: Albert Valentin, Charles Spaak.  Cinematographer: Louis Page.  Production Design: Max Douy.  Editor: Louisette Hautecoeur.  Composer: Roland Manuel.  With: Madeleine Renaud, Charles Vanel, Jean Debucourt, Léonce Corne, Anna Vandenne.

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Haute-Lisse  (France, 1958)


A captivating short film, showing the various processes in the production of a tapestry in the workshop of the famed Gobelins Manufactory.

35mm, color, in French with English subtitles, 16 min.  Production: Les Films du Dauphin.  Producer: Christiane Grémillon.  Director: Jean Grémillon.  Cinematographer: Louis Page.  Composer: Jean Grémillon.