The Little Match Girl (La petite marchande d'allumettes) (1928)

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7.2	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Jean Renoir

Starring

Eric Barclay

Catherine Hessling
Karen

Written by

Jean Renoir
writer

Hans Christian Andersen
story

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Description: La Petite Marchande D'Allumettes aka The Little Match Girl also suffers from an unconvincing and badly cast lead performance from Mrs Renoir, Catherine Hessling, who looks anything but little and more than capable of looking after herself, which certainly takes the edge off Hans Christian Andersen's tale. Indeed, the film makes a couple of attempts to write itself out of the problem by portraying her as more than usually stupid, but they feel more like in-jokes than anything else. It's a shame, because the film itself is an impressively staged fantasy with great special effects and some interesting visual experimentation with ca ... (more)

Release date: 8 June 1928