Marie Bell – MRQE

Figaro

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A silent adaptation of the 1778 Beaumarchais play The Marriage of Figaro, with material also used from its two sequels.

Phèdre

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In the absence of her royal husband Theseus, thought to be dead, Phaedra declares her love to Hippolyte, Theseus’s son from a previous marriage.

Le Colonel Chabert

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The story of a French officer who is assumed dead during the Napoleonic Wars, but returns ten years later to a very different France, both on a political and personal level. The film is based on the novel Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac.

Vaghe stelle dell’Orsa…

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Sandra returns to her childhood village to take care of family business, but childhood memories and secrets soon overcome her.

La Bonne soupe

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A middle-aged Frenchwoman (Marie Bell) regales a casino croupier (Claude Dauphin) with tales of her many complicated romances.

La Charrette fantôme

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

French version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom, about a poor sinner who only realizes what misery he’s wrought when he dies on New Year’s Eve and is collected by Death in his carriage.

Un carnet de bal

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him instead of the man towards whom, in her youth, she had a stronger inclination. To overcome these dreary thoughts, she decides to find out about him and the other men who danced with her during a ball that was a turning point in her life, many years ago. She pays a visit to those forgotten acquaintances one after the other; Christine is not only surprised to see how they have fared, but also discovers the impact she had, unknowingly, on the feelings and the destiny of these persons.

La Chance

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

La Chance (Luck) was based on a story by Yves Mirande, who also supervised the production. Marie Bell plays Tania, a Russian widow who can’t stay away from the gaming tables of the Riviera. A chronic gambler, Tania overextends her monthly allowance and is stone broke when she meets handsome surgeon Victor (Fernand Fabre). Convinced that Tania is interested in Victor only for his money, his best friend Gaston (Marcel Andre) tries to break up the romance. It turns out, of course, that Gaston is all wrong, and Tania is all right. And there’s several songs in the bargain.

Madame Récamier

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The film displays Madame Récamier ‘s conflict with Napoleon. Twice she was pressed to become one of the Empress’s ladies. In revenge for her refusal Napoleon declined to save her husband from ruin.

L’homme à l’Hispano

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The almost financially ruined French gentleman Gaston Dewalter spends several days in Biarritz before going off in the Hispano-Suiza, a luxe car which was a present from his friends. George becomes the lover of Lady Stéphane Oswill pretending he is wealthy. Then Stéphane spends the remaining funds with which the now desperate George hoped to rebuild his fortune in Senegal.