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Esprit

Esprit is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer^® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): André Bazin.

Rating	Title \| Year	Author	Quote
	Germany Year Zero (1948)	André Bazin	Rossellini is perhaps the only filmmaker in the world who knows how to get us interested in an action while leaving it in its objective con- text. Our emotion is thus rid of all sentimentality, for it has been filtered by force through our intelligence. Posted Jun 13, 2023 Edit critic review
	Forbidden Games (1952)	André Bazin	[If] we like to view childhood as if it were a mirror reflecting an image of us that is purged of all sin [and] restored to innocence, then Forbidden Games refuses to play along -- not out of cruelty or pessimism, but out of a desire to tell the truth. Posted Jun 12, 2023 Edit critic review
	The Battle of the Rails (1945)	André Bazin	The morality of art fuses here with the morality of history. The greatness of this film and its spiritual bond with the cause of the Resistance are not unrelated to the purity of intention revealed by its means and its men. Posted Jun 12, 2023 Edit critic review
	Farrebique (1946)	André Bazin	In spite of its shortcomings...I consider Farrebique a major achievement. It is one of the very few French films which, together with Malraux’s Man’s Hope, has realized that the cinema is in bad need of a realistic revolution. Posted Jun 12, 2023 Edit critic review
	Lovers, Happy Lovers! (1954)	André Bazin	[The film] is perhaps more important than even its most enthusiastic supporters have argued, first and foremost because of the able and original solution it found for the problem of fictional adaptation. Posted Jun 12, 2023 Edit critic review
	La Strada (1954)	André Bazin	The vitality of the Italian cinema is confirmed for us once again by this wonderful film of Federico Fellini's. Posted Oct 04, 2022 Edit critic review
	The Great Dictator (1940)	André Bazin	It is not... the genius of Chaplin that permitted him to create The Great Dictator. It was nothing but that moustache. The Tramp waited for the right moment, did what he had to do, then escaped for all eternity with his facial hair intact. Posted May 26, 2022 Edit critic review
	La Terra Trema (1948)	André Bazin	There is no doubt that the film does have propaganda value, but this value is purely objective: there is no moving eloquence to bolster its documentary vigor. Posted Jan 05, 2022 Edit critic review
	Paths of Glory (1957)	André Bazin	Paths of Glory is finally a captivating work, both weakened and reinforced by its Americanism -- but a very diluted, Hollywood Americanism, at that, and therefore something of a positive force in the end. Posted Dec 09, 2021 Edit critic review
	Limelight (1952)	André Bazin	This man of sixty-four is still in the vanguard of the cinema. At one stroke, [Chaplin] has forged ahead of everyone else; more than ever, he remains an example and a symbol of creative freedom in the least free of the arts. Posted Dec 08, 2021 Edit critic review
	Bicycle Thieves (1948)	André Bazin	[Bicycle Thieves] does not depend on the mathematical elements of drama, the action does not exist beforehand as if it were an "essence." It follows from the pre-existence of the narrative, it is the "integral" of reality. Posted Dec 08, 2021 Edit critic review