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

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Directed by

Jean Renoir

Starring (View all)

Catherine Hessling
Karen

Eric Barclay

Jean Storm
Axel Ott / soldat en bois

Manuel Raaby

Amy Wells

Guy Ferrant

Mme. Heuschling
Une passante

Comtesse Tolstoi
La dame au chien

Written by

Hans Christian Andersen
story

Jean Renoir
writer

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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