The Curtain Rises

Original title: Entrée des artistes

1938
1h 39m

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7.0/10

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Janine Darcey, Claude Dauphin, Louis Jouvet, and Odette Joyeux in The Curtain Rises (1938)

Comedy Crime Drama Romance

Isabelle, Cécilia and François are drama students at the "Conservatoire d'art dramatique". Cécilia is in love with François, but the young man is in love with Isabelle instead. Cécilia elabo... Read allIsabelle, Cécilia and François are drama students at the "Conservatoire d'art dramatique". Cécilia is in love with François, but the young man is in love with Isabelle instead. Cécilia elaborates a desperate plan to get back at François.Isabelle, Cécilia and François are drama students at the "Conservatoire d'art dramatique". Cécilia is in love with François, but the young man is in love with Isabelle instead. Cécilia elaborates a desperate plan to get back at François.

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YOUR RATING

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- 1 nomination

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Trivia
When this film had a re-release in July 1944, the role originally played by Marcel Dalio was been cut, and his name was removed from the credits and the posters, because he was Jewish. In that print of the film, Dalio's scenes have been reshot with Fred Pasquali, but his voice is still used on the soundtrack.

Quotes
François Polti: Life is a nightmare. I will dream that it is beautiful.

Connections
Referenced in Bardot: Une enfant sage (2023)

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10/10

No wrinkle at all, some 70 years later...!!!

Some 70 years after it came out, this film, in my opinion, did not take any wrinkle!

Definitely, Louis Jouvet was an extraordinary actor In Entrée Des Artistes, once more, his play touches the spectator holds it breathless

To tell the truth, in this movie, all the actors have fantastic acting, perfect diction and a common quality: the theatrical dimension and by mentioning only Jouvet, I am strongly unfair with the other comedians.

Hope they might forgive me, if you don't!

Allégret, with a consumed art, takes us along in the world of the actors, like in the world of the human beings: the drama in real life, the comedy at the theater

And even if I must admit that I might have preferred a different end, incorrigible optimist that I am, it keeps a coherent dramatic sense.

In few words, I thus adored this film, even if the quality of the VHS can only make me consider it regrettable that there was yet no restoration...

If you're able to see it, don't miss it!

***A film is never really good unless the camera is an eyes in the head of a poet Orson Welles***