Jean-Paul Alphen

Highlighted works

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  L' Atalante

  Newly-weds begin their life together on a working barge in this luminous and poetic romance, the only feature film by director Jean Vigo.

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  La Règle du jeu

  Made on the cusp of WWII, Jean Renoir’s satire of the upper-middle classes was banned as demoralising by the French government for two decades after its release.