French Film 
Subtitle: Texts and Contexts
Publisher: Routledge
Published: January 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780415161183
First sentence: Marcel Pagnol's series of three films, Marius, Fanny and Cesar, usually referred to as 'the trilogy', has conformed to the fate of many truly popular classics: adored by the public - they were all box-office hits - the films were put down by contemporary critics as bad boulevard theatre or Marseillais melodramas (Bardeche and Brasillach 1948, 411).