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Vincent, François, Paul et les Autres (the Others)
Mid-life unease is worn as light as a 1970s sports jacket in Claude Sautet’s expose of friendship and floundering between three men. Energetic entrepreneur, Vincent (Yves Montand), the uptight doctor, François (Michel Piccoli) and disillusioned writer, Paul (Serge Reggiani) all … Continue reading
Posted in 1970s French cinema, French Cinema, French Film Reviews, French Movie Reviews
Tagged Auteur, Claude Sautet, Gérard Depardieu, Male bonding, Male friendship in French cinema, Michel Piccoli, Mid-life crisis in French cinema, Serge Reggiani, Stéphane Audran, Vincent, François, Paul et les Autres, Yves Montand
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Conte d’Hiver (A Winter’s Tale)
Eric Rohmer reinvents fairytale with grey cold, charming chattering and the hopes of an ordinary woman. Neither Grimm nor Disney, greedy witch or shallow promise, Rohmer’s magic rests in the day-to-day and a heart’s steadfast belief that something, contrary to … Continue reading
Posted in French Cinema, French Film Reviews, French Movie Reviews
Tagged A Winter's Tale, Auteur, Charlotte Véry, Conte d'Hiver, Contes des Quatre Saisons, Eric Rohmer, Fairytale in French cinema, Frédéric van den Driessche, Hervé Furic, Le Rayon Vert, Marie Rivière, Tales of Four Seasons
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César et Rosalie
Male adoration and infatuation takes two forms in Claude Sautet’s love-triangle serenade, starring Romy Schneider as the woman unable to choose between a passionate entrepreneur and an aloof artist. Both are obsessed with her, but show their interest in different … Continue reading
Posted in French Cinema, French Film Reviews, French Movie Reviews
Tagged Auteur, Claude Sautet, Isabelle Huppert, Male desire, Romy Schneider, Sami Frey, Yves Montand
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Le Boucher (The Butcher)
A disturbed butcher falling for a small-town schoolteacher forms the blood and bones of Claude Chabrol’s classic 1970 thriller. Set in the heart of the Dordogne close to one of the region’s prehistoric caves, Popaul (Jean Yanne) is a needy … Continue reading
Posted in French Cinema, French Film Reviews, French Movie Reviews
Tagged Auteur, Claude Chabrol, Films set in the Dordogne, Jean Yanne, Le Boucher, New Wave, Nouvelle Vague, Stéphane Audran, The Butcher
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Paris Nous Appartient (Paris Belongs to Us)
Wide spaces and open ideas connect with paranoia and penned-in desire in Jacques Rivette’s first feature, the title of which is inspired by Charles Péguy’s reflection that Paris belongs to those who spend the summer there preparing for the winter … Continue reading
Posted in French Cinema, French Film Reviews, French Movie Reviews
Tagged Auteur, Betty Schneider, Daniel Crohem, Françoise Prévost, Giani Esposito, Jacques Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard, Paris, Paris Belongs to Us, Paris in film, Paris Nous Appartient, Sixties Paris
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Un Plus Une
Claude Lelouch flings opens the doors, shows us heightened-colours of India, and lets love happen Continue reading
Posted in Claude Lelouch films, Film Review, French Film, French film Review, French Movie Review
Tagged Auteur, Christopher Lambert, Claude Lelouch, Elsa Zylberstein, Francis Lai, India in Film, India in the movies, Jean Dujardin, Un Plus Une
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Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud (Nelly and Mr Arnaud)
Nelly (Emmanuelle Béart) is the muse and Mr Arnaud (Michel Serrault) is the man who loves from afar. Desire undeclared, is thus the soft wind that passes through the corridors and large rooms of Mr Arnaud’s smart Parisian apartment. Mr … Continue reading
Les Biches (The Does)
Claude Chabrol’s take on sexual ambiguity in 1968 is mischievous. Stéphane Audran plays the resplendent Frédérique, nouvelle vague’s colonialist of female lust and control. She’s the wealthy dominatrix who wants power over those she desires, and she pursues them with … Continue reading
Posted in Claude Chabrol, Film Review, French Cinema, French Film, French film Review, French Movie, French Movie Review, French Movie Reviews, French Movies, Gender, Lesbian Films, Lesbian Movies, Nouvelle Vague, Sexuality, St. Tropez, The New Wave
Tagged 1968 films, 1968 movies, Auteur, Claude Chabrol, Dominique Zardi, Henri Attal, Jacqueline Sassard, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Lesbian Films, Lesbian movies, New Wave, Nouvelle Vague, sexual ambiguity, Stéphane Audran
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Pauline à la Plage (Pauline at the Beach)
Summertime fascination, Eric Rohmer-style, is a gentle flirtatious breeze, one that carries early-eighties sexuality and casual connections on the shore of a wild-Atlantic heart. Third in the ‘Comedies and Proverbes’ series, Pauline à la Plage follows fifteen-year old Pauline (Amanda … Continue reading
Posted in Eric Rohmer, Holiday Films, Nouvelle Vague, The New Wave, Vacation Movies
Tagged Amanda Langlet, Atlantic Ocean, Auteur, Comedies and Proverbs, Eric Rohmer, Féodor Atkine, Holiday films, Holiday movies, New Wave, Normandy, Nouvelle Vague, Pauline at the Beach, Pauline à la Plage, Sexuality, Vacation films, Vacation movies
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Merci Pour Le Chocolat
‘I have a knack for doing wrong,’ confesses Swiss-Chocolate factory owner Mika Muller (Isabelle Huppert), the praline beauty in Claude Chabrol’s detective-style thriller. Chabrol wanted to make a film about ‘Evil’, chose Huppert as its purveyor, and from the opening … Continue reading
Posted in Claude Chabrol, French Cinema, French Film, Merci Pour le Chocolat, Thriller
Tagged Anna Mouglalis, Auteur, Catholicism, Chabrol's confessions, Childhood repression, Claude Chabrol, Detective genre, Evil personified, Fairytale evil, French Cinema, French Film, French film review, Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Merci Pour Le Chocolat, Movies with pianists, Rodolphe Pauly, Swiss chocolate in the movies, Thriller
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