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Country: France
Genre: Action/ Drama
Director: Robert Enrico
Year: 1967
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WORTH A LOOK
The Last Adventure is completely a movie of it’s time, and that’s both good and bad.
The good part is the characters. Manu (Alain Delon), Roland (Lino Ventura), and Laetitia (Joanna Shimkus) are adventurers, free spirits from three different generations, who follow their bliss, and are constitutionally […]
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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: 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 […]
≡ 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 […]
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Country: France
Genre: Suspense/ Drama
Director: Marina de Van
Year: 2009
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Don’t Look Back AKA Ne te retourne pas doesn’t really add up to much after it’s over, but it doesn’t feel that way while it’s happening.
Really, the movie is a star vehicle: a trio consisting of Sophie Marceau, Monica Bellucci, and special effects/makeup.
Let me explain. […]
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Country: France
Genre: Suspense/ Drama
Director: Fred Cavayé
Year: 2008
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
In their movies, one of the things Europeans and especially the French do as naturally as breathing is matter of factness, the tossed off detail. Americans usually suck at this. They often succumb to the temptation to pump up moments until they cease to […]
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Country: France
Genre: Drama
Director: André Téchiné
Year: 1996
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Here’s a familiar sounding thriller plot: A family of thieves, going back at least three generations, has a black sheep. You see, Alex (Daniel Auteuil), in an act of rebellion, has become a policeman. A delinquent girl, Juliette (Laurence Côte), whose brother Jimmy (Benoît Magimel) has been […]
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Country: France
Genre: Drama
Director: Claude Chabrol
Year: 1988
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I sat down to watch Story of Women with the expectation that it would be a drama, but I was in for a rude and welcome surprise.
Marie Latour (Isabelle Huppert) must somehow care for two children in Nazi-occupied France while […]
