The Little Match Girl 1928 FRE MULTISUB 1080p WEB-DL x264

Year: 1928
Country: France
Director: Jean Renoir, Jean Tédesco
Cast: Catherine Hessling, Eric Barclay, Jean Storm, Manuel Raaby
IMDB: Link

Language : French
Subtitles : Danish, English, Spanish, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese





There are two layers to La Petite Marchande d’allumettes. For Jean Renoir, it was, first and foremost, a technical tour de force. He was eager to try the new panchromatic film stock with its wide range of grays. Also, after a series of impressionistic films and a lavish “Stroheimian” adaptation of Nana (1926), Renoir was interested in making a film almost entirely based on special effects. This would be feasible in a very small studio, and Jean Tedesco, owner of Vieux Colombier, the leading avant-garde film theatre in Paris, turned its attic into a set. The new stock required different lighting, and with the help of an engineer from Philips, Renoir modified ordinary electric bulbs. An old car motor, cooled by tap water, generated electricity. Another friend turned his kitchen into a film lab to develop the negatives. Some scenes were shot by five cameras at different angles; another one was photographed by a handheld camera on horseback; miniature sets and mirrors were used extensively. As André Bazin wrote, “Renoir’s fascination with technical effects—the almost sensual pleasure he derives from the originality of his fantastic images—(...) is the basis of the film’s poetry.”

And that’s the second layer. “The Little Match Girl” is one of Hans Christian Andersen’s most cruel and realistic stories. It is not even a fairy tale, strictly speaking, for all the wondrous and magical events are merely the delirium of a girl who is freezing to death in the snow. Glimmers of Andersen’s inevitable irony only heighten the tragic effect. Film adaptations (there were many) usually shift toward sentimentality. Renoir’s special effects, which he doesn’t even try to hide; Catherine Hessling’s grotesque acting; the giant toys and the toy sets—all are antidotes to sentimentality. Renoir was a thorough and appreciative reader of Andersen, and he sensed the realistic undercurrent of the writer’s fantasy. When Death appears in the form of a friendly jack-in-the-box, that’s true Andersen with his dry humor and Christian morality. Of all Renoir’s silent films, this fairy tale, this technical exercise is the closest precursor to his realistic masterpieces of the sound era. (Peter Bagrov)

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Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:02:48 +0200
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This report was created by AVInaptic (01-11-2020) on 10-06-2026 12:34:52