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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
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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 […]
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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: 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, […]
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Country: France
Genre: Drama
Director: Claude Berri
Year: 1997
Rating:
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: 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: 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. […]