La petite marchande d'allumettes

1928 [FRENCH]

Drama / Fantasy

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Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 69% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 1736 1.7K

black and white short film short

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Plot summary

An impoverished girl tries to sell matches on New Year's Eve. Shivering with cold and unable to sell her wares, she sits in a sheltered nook. Striking a match to keep warm, the flame shows her what's beyond.

Director

Jean Renoir Photo
Jean Renoir

Top cast

Eric Barclay Photo
Eric Barclay as
Catherine Hessling Photo
Catherine Hessling as Karen
Jean Storm Photo
Jean Storm as Axel Ott / soldat en bois
Manuel Raaby Photo
Manuel Raaby as
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356.35 MB
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French 2.0
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Subtitles
24 fps
12 hr 38 min
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661.15 MB
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French 2.0
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Subtitles
24 fps
12 hr 38 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 8 / 10

While I had a hard time overcoming the

While I had a hard time overcoming the fact that the (supposed to be) poor little girl was played by a woman who seemed to be around 30 years old, and she didn't quite look any poor at all to me, in that fancy dress and hat. Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Match Girl, was one of my favorite books when I was a kid. For you who doesn't know what The Little Match Girl, is about I can tell you it's basically about a little girl, barefoot and dressed in rags, who is trying to sell match-sticks on Christmas Eve. She cannot go home until she has sold all the macth-sticks because her father would beat her. Like most of H.C. Andersen's tales, this one has a very tragic ending, and overall is a very depressing story. Jean Renoir put a much more cheerful tone on his adaptation. The portrayal of the girl, especially, discturbed me at first (it felt like watching a movie with a blonde Snow White!). But like the master of cinema and true artist Jean Renoir was, he turnes this into his own piece. Some of the tragic essence is lost and replaced by hope and dreams, even though it ends just as tragic as H.C. Andersen's tale. The dream/hallucination scenes were absolutely brilliant, and ironically I all the time expected it to fail there. This movie a strong impact on me, and I was delighted and suprised that Renoir's progressive style worked on this classic fairy tale. It really moved me.
Reviewed by R T 4 / 10

The Little Matchstick Girl is my favorite holiday

The Little Matchstick Girl is my favorite holiday story of all time. I have no idea what story Jean Renoir was talking about.
Reviewed by R T 7 / 10

It seems like Jean Renoir was ahead of

It seems like Jean Renoir was ahead of his time even during the silent era of cinema.
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