À nous la liberté

1931 [FRENCH]

Action / Comedy / Musical

3
IMDb Rating 7.4/10 10 5381 5.4K

factory automation escaped convict social satire candid assembly line

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Plot summary

In this classic French satire, Louis, a convict, escapes from prison and takes on legitimate work, making his way up in the business world. Eventually becoming the head of a successful factory, Louis opts to modernize his company with mechanical innovations. But when his friend Émile finally leaves jail years later and reunites with Louis, the past catches up with them. The two, worried about being apprehended by police, long to flee the confines of industry.

Director

René Clair Photo
René Clair

Top cast

Maximilienne Photo
Maximilienne as Une invitée au diner
Jacques Shelly Photo
Jacques Shelly as Paul
André Michaud Photo
André Michaud as Le contremaitre
Henri Marchand Photo
Henri Marchand as Émile
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779.79 MB
1280*1066
French 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 24 min
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1.41 GB
1296*1080
French 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 24 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by tototakeo 8 / 10

A film that takes a bit to get

A film that takes a bit to get going. But once it does it’s just good times. It definitely makes you wait but rewards you like good film should. A lot of movies blow their load at the beginning leaving you disappointed by the end these days. This film is simple. And it knows it. That simplicity is what makes it good. If it came out today? 7. For its audacity at storytelling with some modern tropes? An 8.
Reviewed by treywillwest 8 / 10

nope

It was striking watching this film shortly after having attended a very fine museum exhibit on American Precisionist painting, a style in vogue at the time this film was made. As in Precisionism, the imagery here is concerned with the industrialization of society. Every facet of social life, not just the work-place, but the school and the prison-system seems to director Rene Clair to have been turned into a factory. The film features some extremely clever editing making the connection between industrial production and the production of passive subjects of capitalism clear. The difference between Clair and the Precisionists is that most of the latter saw in industrialization a utopian promise. What few who didn't, such as George Ault , understood industrialization in apocalyptic terms. In either case, it represented for the Precisionists an absolute transformation of life from which there was no turning back. For the filmmaker's part, Clair clearly understood modernity in sinister terms, industrialization bringing about the mechanization of the subject, but his humanism made it impossible for him to see the modernist challenge to humanity as insurmountable. For Clair, human dignity could be salvaged just by forsaking the materialist temptations of capitalism for the simple pleasures of life. Exploiter and exploited could return to a loving, communal relationship by embracing poverty and freedom. Art historians have proposed that the utopianism of Precisionist art was abolished by the horrific realizations of WWII. That would, it seems to me, to apply equally to the humanist utopia of Clair's cinema.
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