"Vive la France!" - the Blogathon

Welcome to the Vive la France! blogathon. My co-host, Christian Esquevin of Silver Screen Modes, and I have been thrilled that so many joined in with us to celebrate the films of France along with non-French films set in France. Our participating bloggers have chosen an exciting range of subjects - covering nine decades - we know you will enjoy.

Blog post titles in bold contain links to each piece - click-and-read on!

• 4 Star Films | Leon Morin, Priest (1961) 
• Caftan Woman | Paris Blues (1961)
• Classic Film & TV Cafe | Truffaut's Homage to Hitchcock: The Bride Wore Black (1968)
  
• Critica Retro | Faces of Children/Visages d' enfants (1925)
• Lady Eve's Reel Life | The French Roots of Noir: Marcel Carné and Jean Gabin
• Lady Eve's Reel Life |  Hitchcockian: Francois Truffaut's The Soft Skin (1964) 
• Maddy Loves Her Classic Films | Five French Classics You Should See 
• Make Mine Film Noir | Merci pour le chocolat (2000) 
• The Midnite Drive-In | The Blue Meanies: Fantastic Planet/La planete sauvage (1973)
• Mike's Take on the Movies | Farewell, Friend (1968)
• Motion Picture Gems | Small Change (1976) directed by Francois Truffaut
• Movies Silently | A Tale of Two Cities (1911)
• Old Hollywood Films | How to Get Away with Murder, or, What I Learned from All This and Heaven, Too (1940)
  
• The Old Hollywood Garden | Les Diaboliques (1955) 
• Once Upon a Screen | Disney's The Aristocats (1970)
• A Person in the Dark | Liliom (1934): A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Hollywood...or What Happened When 2 Germans and a Frenchman Met in Budapest
• Realweegiemidget | Leon/The Professional (1994)
• Retro Movie Buff | La Grand Fête: The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
• A Shroud of Thoughts | The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
• Silver Screenings | The Baker's Wife (1938): The Importance of Good French Bread
• Silver Screen Modes | Z: The 50th Anniversary (1969)
• Strictly Vintage Hollywood | Gay Purr-ee (1962)
• The Stop Button | Boudu Saved from Drowning (Jean Renoir 1932) 
• Twenty Four Frames | Deneuve, Polanski and Repulsion (1965)

A very big thank you to all the wonderful bloggers who took part in our blogathon. Who knows, maybe we'll do it again next year - on Bastille Day...

The members of the Classic Movie Blog Association have honored the Vive la France! blogathon with the 2019 CMBA Award for Best Classic Film Blog Event.