Au Bonheur des Dames [The Ladies' Paradise] (1930) - English subtitles
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Soaring camerawork, luminous decor, and stylish montage sequences make Au Bonheur des Dames (Ladies’ Paradise) appear strikingly modern, yet it can be seen as an elegy to silent filmmaking. Directed by Julien Duvivier, the film was shot in the autumn of 1929, just as the first French sound films were being released. Adapted from an Émile Zola novel, the film describes the fate of a family tailor shop that is driven out of business when a gigantic department store opens across the street. Dita Parlo, a German actress who later appeared in Jean Vigo’s L’Atalante (1934) and Jean Renoir’s The Grand Illusion (1937), plays a wide-eyed innocent from the country who is lured away from her uncle’s small shop by the richness of the department store. (Laura Horak at silentfilm.org)
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