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Country: France
Genre: Drama/ Suspense
Director: Alain Corneau
Year: 2010
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
As surely everyone but the dullest bulb knows by now, the 1% of the richest people in the world have bought the world’s governments and use them to further solidify their power and wealth.
Part of the strategy of the wealthy is to influence education so […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action/ Suspense
Director: Jacques Deray
Year: 1980
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WORTH A LOOK
I must have Occupy Wall Street on the brain. I am once again reminded that the phenomenon of rich and powerful people protecting their own perceived interests at the expense of everyone else is as old as civilization itself.
Three Men To Destroy, based on a novel […]
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Country: France
Genre: Horror/ Drama/ Suspense
Director: Fabrice Du Welz
Year: 2008
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Vinyan has two major themes.
One is the horror of being in an entirely alien culture, where you don’t understand the language, much less the cultural cues that would help you tell is someone is being sincere, helpful or murderous.
The […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action
Director: Fred Cavayé
Year: 2010
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Point Blank AKA A Bout Portant is a thriller about absolutely nothing. By that I mean that there’s no sociopolitical or psychological subtext whatsoever. What you see is what you get.
That said, Point Blank is almost perfectly realized. Director Fred Cavayé […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action/ Mainstream
Director: Jérôme Salle
Year: 2008
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The Burma Conspiracy aka Largo Winch II is the second movie I’ve seen within the week to steal plot points from several movies. Let me see…there’s the use of insulin as a weapon and chocolate as an antidote from Paul Verhoeven’s Black Book, the subcutaneous […]
≡ Category: Comedy, France, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: France
Genre: Comedy
Director: Francis Veber
Year: 1986
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
You’ve got to hand it to writer/director Francis Veber. He’s a machine.
Over and over again he turns out entertaining mainstream comedies which are simple but not stupid, without resorting to needless vulgarity. His comedies deal with human nature in the broadest possible way.
In Fugitives, Lucas (Gérard […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action/ Mainstream
Director: Jérôme Salle
Year: 2008
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Generally, I like my movies to be about something, to have something to say about the human condition. Here is the extent of the philosophical content of Largo Winch: “What life gave is one thing. What you do of it is another.” In other words, […]
≡ Category: Drama, France, Highly Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: France
Genre: Drama
Director: Claude Berri
Year: 1997
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Early on in Lucie Aubrac, the title character teaches a history class to a group of children. One of them asks, why do we study history? The answers have nothing to do with the story per se, but they inform director Claude Berri’s approach. To […]
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Country: France
Genre: Romance/ Comedy/ Drama
Director: Andrzej Zulawski
Year: 2000
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
My wife is a big fan of Sophie Marceau, which explains why La Fidelite is being reviewed on this web site (I review every movie I watch).
You see, it’s a wacky French dramatic comedy, far removed from the genre flicks I usually review.
Clélia (Sophie […]
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Country: France
Genre: Romance/ Comedy/ Drama
Director: Claude Berri
Year: 2007
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
In a time when the middle class is disappearing throughout the world and the social safety net is increasingly being attacked, it has become increasingly difficult to create stories about friendship and romance which are hopeful and at the same time don’t insult […]
