≡ Category: Action, Comedy, France, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: France
Genre: Action/ Comedy
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Year: 1994
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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. […]
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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 […]
≡ Category: Comedy, France, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
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: Suspense/ Romance
Director: Jérôme Salle
Year: 2005
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Anthony Zimmer proceeds from a classic Hitchcockian premise.
The title character launders money for the Russian mob through an ingenious scheme involving phony lawsuits with companies based in countries that are financial havens, like Bermuda. The police figure out his game but Zimmer eludes them […]
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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 […]
≡ Category: Drama, France, Highly Recommended, Movie Reviews By Country | ≅ Leave a Comment
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 […]
