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Category Archives: Comedy
Trois Couleurs: Blanc (Three Colours: White)
Dominique (Julie Delpy) steps out of the church into white light; she’s an unobtainable bride, too pure and too radiant to be made love to by her hapless Polish hairdresser husband. Or at least this is what Karlos’s (Zbigniew Zamachowski) … Continue reading
Posted in Auteur, Comedy, Comedy, French Movie Reviews
Tagged featured, Janusz Gajos, Julie Delpy, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Zbigniew Zamachowski
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Véronique et son Cancre (Veronica and her Dunce)
Eric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol’s sharp arrow strikes at the heart of all that’s rotten about unimaginative teaching … Continue reading
Posted in Auteur, Claude Chabrol, Comedy, Eric Rohmer, Eric Rohmer short film, Film Review, French Cinema, French comedy-drama, French Film, French film Review, French Movie, French Movie Reveiw, French Movies, French short film reviews, French short films, Movie Review, Nouvelle Vague, The New Wave
Tagged Alain Deirieu, Education in French cinema, Education in French film, Education in French movies, Nicole Berger, Stella Dassas, Véronique et son Cancre, Veronica and her Dunce
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Le Souffle au Coeur (Murmur of the Heart)
If you’re a teenage boy in a post-war bourgeois family, struggling with a cold father, a Catholic education and two mischievous older brothers, there are three pleasures in life: a mother’s love, Jazz music, and the slow, self-conscious introduction to … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Film Review, French Cinema
Tagged Adolescence, Adolescence in French film, Benoît Ferreux, French Cinema, French Film, Le Souffle au Coeur, Lea Massari, Louis Malle, Moral taboos in Film, Moral taboos in French cinema, Mother and son bond in French film, Mother love in French Cinema, Mother love in French film, Murmur of the Heart, Sexuality
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A conversation with Marie Rivière … Eric Rohmer’s intelligent adoration of women
Eric Rohmer’s Le Rayon Vert (‘The Green Ray’) and La Femme De L’Aviateur (‘The Aviator’s Wife’) are part of my summer blood. I watch them every August and in my mind they are like old friends, associated with clear night … Continue reading
Posted in Auteur, British Film Institute, Comedies and Proverbs, Comedy, Eric Rohmer, French Cinema, French Cinema French Film, French Film, Interview, romance, The Green Ray, The New Wave, Vacation Movies
Tagged Anne-Laure Meury, British Film Institute, Eric Rohmer, Fabrice Luchini, Fanny Mazoyer, Feminism, Film Review, French 1980s films, French Cinema, French Film, Geoff Andrew, Interview with Marie Rivière, Loneliness, Marie Rivière, Philippe Marlaud, The Aviators Wife, The Green Ray
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Une Nouvelle Amie (The New Girlfriend)
Sexuality and gender beam fluorescent pink in François Ozon’s playful adaptation of Ruth Rendell’s short story, ‘The New Girlfriend’. Romain Duris plays David, who after the death of his wife is left to raise their baby alone. His wife’s best … Continue reading
Posted in Auteur, Bereavement, Comedy, François Ozon, French Cinema, French Film, Gender, Sexuality
Tagged Anaïs Demoustier, François Ozon, Romain Duris, Ruth Rendell
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