Napoleon (Napoléon vu par Abel Gance) (1927)
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"17.1. 2024 Out of all the biopics and historical epics ever made, Abel Gance's "Napoleon" is the most creative and captivating one and the climax of Gance's experimental achievements. Gance's intention wasn't to only present important details of Napoleon's era but recreate its spirit. The director did this by liberating the camera: he put mounting devices on the chests of cameramen, cars, sledges, horsebacks, and guillotines. In the snowball fight scene in the beginning of the film, it looks l"

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"From Richard Schickel’s 1981 TIME review of a reissue of Napoleon: “On April 7, 1927, Charles de Gaulle and his friend, André Malraux, saw the Paris premiere of a new movie. At its end, the two great-men-to-be were on their feet, cheering. Malraux remembered De Gaulle waving his long arms and crying, ‘Bravo, magnifique!’ It is said that De Gaulle never forgot the images of glory he found that evening in Abel Gance’s epic reconstruction of another young soldier’s climb to greatness, "