Marianne of My Youth

In the 1980s and 1990s, we could see plenty of successful French films being remade by Hollywood, and some critics often saw it as a symptom of a creative crisis within the ranks of the American film industry. But this phenomenon was hardly new. Some half a century ago, French filmmakers themselves remade their own movies in order to conquer new markets. A good example is *Marianne de ma jeunesse*, also known as *Ma…