| Title | Le Ciel Est a Vous (1944) |
| Runtime | 1 hr. 46 min. |
| Director | Jean Grémillon |
| Country | France |
| Studio | Criterion Collection |
| Genres | Drama |
| Description | Le Ciel Est a Vous (aka The Sky Is Yours -- 1949 US title: The Woman Who Dared) is an extraordinary film, and an equally imposing cinematic artifact. The drama about a couple (Charles Vanel, Madeleine Renaud) whose fascination with airplanes and flight, to the detriment of their family, stands as a unique drama in subject matter. Additionally, it is the magnum opus of Jean Gremillon, a director unjustly neglected outside of France, and also one of the few “propaganda” films of the Nazi occupation to achieve serious critical respectability. And it among the last movies of the unromanticized World War II era and beyond to express a still-vibrant sense-of-wonder at the act of flight, itself a special facet of the French imagination (and French history) |