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La Maternelle (International title: Children of Montmartre) is a 1933 French film directed and written by Jean Benoît-Lévy and Marie Epstein. It was adapted from Léon Frapié's Prix Goncourt winning novel La Maternelle (1904). This film was a remake of a less successful, silent version made in 1925 by Gaston Roudès. In 1935, it was ranked as the 6th best foreign film by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, and has received a 7.3 ranking (out of 10) by 127 reviewers at the Internet Movie Database.Epstein and Benoît-Lévy
Acting as directors and screenwriters, La Maternelle was one of the films that emerged from the collaboration between Epstein and Benoît-Lévy that lasted more than a decade.Although screenwriting was commonly open to women, few were film directors. Epstein was the only female director of French cinema at the time, and despite her role, she is always listed after Benoît-Lévy. As research for the film, they both spent months visiting schools in the lower-class areas of Paris in order to understand how to integrate schoolchildren into the film and how to best construct the set.
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