With André Gide

Nobel-prize-winning author, social justice crusader, anti-colonialist, adventure traveler, musician, and one-time Communist: André Gide was a larger-than-life character who dominated French letters from the turn of the 20th century to his death in 1951. Directed by Marc Allégret, with whom Gide traveled extensively in French Equatorial Africa, the film was made in the year leading up to the writer’s death.

Director: Marc Allégret

Cast: André Gide, Roland Alexandre, Jean-Louis Barrault, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Jean Desailly, Renée Faure, Maurice Garçon, Pierre Herbart

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.