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Country: France
Genre: Drama
Director: Claude Chabrol
Year: 1988
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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 […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Action/ Suspense
Director: Mabrouk El Mechri
Year: 2008
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Writer/director Mabrouk El Mechri had a genius idea — make a Jean Claude Van Damme movie in which the main character is a version of the actor himself. In El Mechri’s conception, Van Damme is all but washed up as an action star […]
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Country: France
Genre: Drama
Director: Jacques Deray
Year: 1975
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
If you ever want to see the ultimate example of Gallic cool, check out Alain Delon in Flic Story.
In the late 40s, career criminal Emile Buisson (Jean-Louis Trintignant) escaped from custody and began a killing spree, blowing away snitches and anyone else who got in his […]
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Country: France
Genre: Horror
Director: Alexandre Bustillo/ Julien Maury
Year: 2007
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Inside starts to go wrong even before the credits start. We are immediately thrust into the uncanny valley in a CGI representation of a baby inside the womb. It is unwise to use CGI to represent a human being unless you are fairly sure […]
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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
Director: Corey Yuen
Year: 2002
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
It’s hard to believe that anyone involved with the ghastly Transporter 3 had anything to do with the original, but it’s true. Luc Besson produced both movies and Besson and his regular screenwriting partner, Robert Mark Kamen, wrote both scripts.
I dunno, maybe Besson has gotten […]
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Country: France
Genre: Art/ Drama
Director: Amos Gitai
Year: 2008
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Please understand. I don’t think One Day You’ll Understand is a bad film necessarily. It’s just that this is a website devoted to Trash Cinema, and One Day You’ll Understand has neither the energy or intent of the movies that I gravitate to. And it […]
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Country: France
Genre: Drama
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Year: 1972
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
The biggest strength of Un Flic is it’s willingness to take it’s time, to develop atmosphere and suspense, to dwell on procedural details. Unfortunately, writer/director Jean-Pierre Melville allows this leisurely pace to extend to even the most boring scenes, in which nothing much of note occurs, […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action
Director: Jean-Paul Salomé
Year: 2008
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The title Female Agents conjures up the image of a junky, campy romp, featuring scantily clad women seducing Nazis and enduring nipple torture from the SS. Instead, Female Agents is more of a French Dirty Dozen, featuring women.
But that doesn’t really capture the flavor of the […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action
Director: Olivier Megaton
Year: 2008
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Transporter 3 is just a terrible movie, but it didn’t have to be this way. Blame some lazy screenwriting from longtime collaborators Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen and inexcrebable direction from Olivier Megaton.
The story itself is perfectly serviceable. Leonid Vasilev (Jeroen Krabbé), a muckety-muck high […]