The film represents all of cinema’s possibilities in 106 minutes.
It bubbles with an optimistic portrait of a happily married young couple, and a lively gallery of supporting characters worthy of a Preston Sturges farce.
It’s been part of the film canon for so long that it’s valuable to remind audiences how gloriously alive and just plain fun it is.
Lionsgate’s superb disc will wipe away any salty tears that it doesn’t carry the Criterion logo.
One factor behind Grand Illusion’s lasting power is the strength of its ensemble cast.
You officially no longer have an excuse not to own one of the greatest of all films.
This is Jeanne Moreau at her “If it feels good, do it” best.
The film inaugurated Jean Moreau’s extraordinary run of ’60s art films in high style.
L’Age d’Or still resonates as a recipe for cultural revolution.
If the Marquis de Sade had lived anytime during the 20th century, perhaps he would have made a film like L’Age d’Or.
Marcel Carné’s France, unlike the fiddle-dee-dee of Victor Fleming’s cotton pickin’ South, is a poetic realist’s wonderland.
Criterion’s restoration of Carné’s masterpiece is nothing short of a humanitarian effort.