The Masterpiece

In popular culture

  • The Life of Emile Zola (1937) is a well-received film biography, starring Paul Muni, which devotes significant footage to Zola's involvement in exonerating Dreyfus. The film won the Academy Award for Outstanding Production.
  • Zola is known to have been an inspiration to Christopher Hitchens as found in his book Letters to a Young Contrarian (2001).[59]
  • The 2012 BBC TV series The Paradise is based on Zola's 1883 novel Au Bonheur des Dames.[60]
  • Cézanne et Moi (2016) is a French film, directed by Danièle Thompson, that explores the friendship between Zola and the Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne.[61]

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