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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: 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 […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action/ Comedy
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Year: 1994
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Given their premise, director Bertrand Tavernier and writers Jean Cosmos and Michel Léviant had no choice but to balance La Fille De D’Artagnan AKA Revenge of the Muskateers on the knife-edge between satire and straightforward adventure. That’s a heckuva tricky tone and Bertrand Tavernier can’t quite […]
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Country: France
Genre: Comedy/ Romance
Director: Pascal Chaumeil
Year: 2010
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Normally, I watch French romantic comedies because I’m looking for subtlety, something that resembles real human behavior, and a respite from the usual infantile American romantic male leads. Out of luck.
In this case, my wife wanted to see Heartbreaker and she’s the boss, so there […]
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Country: France
Genre: Comedy
Director: Francis Veber
Year: 1998
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The Dinner Game has a pithy premise. It seems that a group of blue blood bastards scour Paris for eccentrics they can invite to weekly dinners in order to make fun of them. These eccentrics have hobbies like throwing a boomerang to relieve stress or collecting […]
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Country: France
Genre: Comedy
Director: Francis Veber
Year: 2006
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Recently, my wife and I watched the Francis Veber flick Shut Up! AKA Ruby and Quentin, starring Jean Reno and Gérard Depardieu. She enjoyed it quite a bit, so being ever vigilant about finding movies my wife and I can watch together, I decided to track […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action/ Comedy
Director: Francis Veber
Year: 2009
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The situation is pure boilerplate. Gangster Ruby (Jean Reno) is having an affair with the girlfriend of his boss, Vogel (Jean-Pierre Malo). He’s also stealing from him. When Vogel finds out, he promptly caps the girl. Ruby wants revenge and Vogel still wants his money […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action/ Comedy
Director: Jacques Deray
Year: 1970
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I’ve got to warn you. I saw Borsalino under less than optimal circumstances, which might cloud my judgement on the merits of the film.
The print I saw was copied from a long ago TV broadcast, so the quality was low to start with and the […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action/ Comedy / Western
Director: Joachim Rønning/ Espen Sandberg
Year: 2006
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Apparently, Mexican bombshell Salma Hayek and Spanish spitfire Penélope Cruz have been wanting to make a film together for many years. Finally, they got tired of waiting for a suitable project to emerge, so they came up with an idea of their […]
