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Jacques Feyder Jacques Feyder (; 21 July 1885 – 24 May 1948) was a Belgian actor, screenwriter and film director who worked principally in France, but also in the USA, Britain and Germany. He was a leading director of silent films during the 1920s, and in the 1930s he became associated with the style of poetic realism in French cinema. He adopted French nationality in 1928.
Jacques Feyder Disillusioned with the Hollywood system, Feyder returned to France in 1933. During the next three years he made three of his most successful films, all of them in collaboration with screenwriter Charles Spaak and featuring Françoise Rosay in a leading role. "Le Grand Jeu" (1934) and "Pension Mimosas" (1935) were both significant creations in the style of poetic realism; "La Kermesse héroïque" (1935) (also known as "Carnival in Flanders") was a meticulously staged period film with contemporary political resonances, which earned Feyder several international awards.
Jacques Feyder In 1944 Feyder and Françoise Rosay published "Le Cinéma, notre métier", an autobiographical memoir of their work together in the cinema, in which Feyder stated that he regarded himself as an artisan, a craftsman of filmmaking. Some critics have been content to take him at his word and to look no further for any underlying vision of the world. He was however insistent upon his creative independence, demonstrated by his willingness to make his films in so many different countries if the conditions of production appeared favourable. Recurrent themes in his work include the reckless love of a mysterious or unknown woman ("L'Atlantide", "L'Image", "Carmen", "Le Grand Jeu"), the gap between reality and the vision that someone has of it ("Crainquebille", "Gribiche", "Les Nouveaux Messieurs", "La Kermesse héroïque"), and maternal love ("Gribiche", "Visages d'enfants", "Pension Mimosas").
Jacques Feyder Feyder's relatively early death meant that his career did not resume after World War II, and this may have contributed to a fading of interest in his films, reinforced by the hostility of some influential critics associated with "Cahiers du cinéma" in the 1950s. His younger contemporary René Clair judged in 1970, "Jacques Feyder does not occupy today the place his work and his example should have earned him". Any subsequent reassessment has tended to be hampered by the limited availability of his films in English-speaking countries, with the exception of "La Kermesse héroïque" which some reckon to have aged less well than other examples of his work. These factors have contributed to a sometimes ambivalent attitude to his work as a whole.
Jacques Feyder Feyder went on to direct films in England and Germany prior to the outbreak of World War II, but with diminishing success. Following the Nazi occupation in 1940, which led to the banning of "La Kermesse héroïque", he left France for the safety of Switzerland, and directed a last film there, "Une femme disparaît" (1942).