Still of Vieille France in Movie Makers, Nov. 1938, 528.
France
English
200 ft
8mm
B&W
Silent
"Luc Fauvel is a Norman, and he turned to his own pays to contrive as sensitive and trenchant a study of French provincial life, in miniature, done by the medium of film, as did giants like Flaubert and de Maupassant through the medium of words. His Vieille France has irony, pathos, humor and plain reporting. It is the tale of an old bonnet maker of Normandy, who goes through her daily tasks, in which she has grown old, but who, at the end of the labor, reviews the past, by means of her photograph album, and meditates on her son, who died on the field of honor in the World War, and on her daughter who has become a great dancer and is far removed from the little Norman village of her origin. Mr. Fauvel accomplishes most by suggestion, by indirect statement and by a kind of insidious comment on life, never more than fleetingly presented. This young Frenchman, now studying at Cambridge, in England, will give us better and more technically well knit pictures as times goes on." Movie Makers, Dec. 1937, 630.
Fauvel discusses the film in "Vieille France" (Movie Makers, Nov. 1938, 528, 558-560).
This film won Fauvel first prize in a French amateur film contest, for which the prize was a tour of the United States (Movie Makers, Sept. 1937, 445).
The film was available in the ACL's Club Film Library.
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