Carné
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Carné is a director who baffles Tavernier, who acknowledges his flaws but admits, “yet the films exist, some of the greatest in French cinema, and Carné must have had something to do with it.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2017
Of particular note, along with titles by Marcel Carné and Sacha Guitry, is Henri-Georges Clouzot’s “Le Corbeau,” which managed to infuriate both the right-wing Vichy press and the anti-Nazi resistance in 1943.
From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2015
But the period really belonged to the pioneers of "poetic realism" – Vigo, Jean Renoir, Julien Duvivier and Marcel Carné.
From The Guardian • Mar. 22, 2011
Les Enfants du Paradis – Marcel Carné, 1945 An Oscar-nominated tragic love story between a theatre mime artist and an actress.
From The Guardian • Aug. 7, 2010
In a different way, the works of Poujoulat and Genoude, Montalembert, Nicolas and Carné failed to inspire him with any definite interest.
From Against the Grain by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)
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