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Category Archives: French Movie Review
Les Biches (The Does)
Claude Chabrol’s take on sexual ambiguity in 1968 is mischievous. Stéphane Audran plays the resplendent Frédérique, nouvelle vague’s colonialist of female lust and control. She’s the wealthy dominatrix who wants power over those she desires, and she pursues them with … Continue reading
Posted in Claude Chabrol, Film Review, French Cinema, French Film, French film Review, French Movie, French Movie Review, French Movie Reviews, French Movies, Gender, Lesbian Films, Lesbian Movies, Nouvelle Vague, Sexuality, St. Tropez, The New Wave
Tagged 1968 films, 1968 movies, Auteur, Claude Chabrol, Dominique Zardi, Henri Attal, Jacqueline Sassard, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Lesbian Films, Lesbian movies, New Wave, Nouvelle Vague, sexual ambiguity, Stéphane Audran
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Après Vous
One simple act of kindness and the hilarious complications that follow form the heart-stone of Pierre Salvadori’s romantic-comedy, one that rolls out bad luck and angst-ridden romance with gags and some very pretty flower arrangements. Daniel Auteuil, French-cinema’s Prince-of-buried-emotion, plays … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, French Cinema, French Movie Review
Tagged Après Vous, Daniel Auteuil, José Garcia, Pierre Salvadori, Sandrine Kiberlain
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Les Témoins (The Witnesses)
Love is a crashing symbol (and fidelity a distant drum-roll) in André Téchiné’s film about desire, control and the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic in mid-eighties Paris. Sarah (Emmanuelle Béart) finds motherhood difficult: it’s hard to write with a young … Continue reading
Posted in AIDS/HIV epidemic in Paris, Emmanuelle Béart, Film Review, Forgiveness, French Cinema, French Film, French film Review, French Movie, French Movie Reveiw, French Movie Review, French Movie Reviews, French Movies, homosexulaity in cinema, Paris in film, Paris in the movies, Sexuality
Tagged André Téchiné, Emmanuelle Béart, Johan Libéreau, Julie Depardieu, Les Témoins, Michel Blanc, The Witnesses
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Un Plus Une
Claude Lelouch flings opens the doors, shows us heightened-colours of India, and lets love happen Continue reading
37°2 le Matin (Betty Blue)
“… a travelling circus of events, holding the trauma of romance, and the joys of desire as something more vital to life than work.” Continue reading
Posted in French Cinema, French Film, French film Review, French Movie, French Movie Review, French Movie Reviews, French Movies, romance, Sexuality
Tagged 37°2 le Matin, Beatrice Dalle, Betty Blue, Betty Blue review, Gabriel Yared, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Maudits Manèges, Mental illness in French film
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La Vie en Grand (Learn by Heart)
Drug-dealing and reciting poetry in the Paris-projects are unlikely companions in a story about two teenage boys who find themselves selling hashish to make cash for their families. Mamadou (Ali Bidanessy) the achingly cute younger side-kick to 14 year-old protagonist … Continue reading
Posted in French comedy-drama, French Film, French film Review, French Movie, French Movie Review, La Vie en Grand, Learn by Heart
Tagged Ali Bidanessy, Balamine Guirassy, Festival Film Francophone d’Angouleme, Intouchables, La Vie en Grand, Learn by Heart, Mathieu Vadepied, The Intouchables
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Les Biches (The Does)
Claude Chabrol’s take on sexual ambiguity in 1968 is mischievous. Stéphane Audran plays the resplendent Frédérique, nouvelle vague’s colonialist of female lust and control. She’s the wealthy dominatrix who wants power over those she desires, and she pursues them with … Continue reading
Posted in Claude Chabrol, Film Review, French Cinema, French Film, French film Review, French Movie, French Movie Review, French Movie Reviews, French Movies, Gender, Lesbian Films, Lesbian Movies, Nouvelle Vague, Sexuality, St. Tropez, The New Wave
Tagged 1968 films, 1968 movies, Auteur, Claude Chabrol, Dominique Zardi, Henri Attal, Jacqueline Sassard, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Lesbian Films, Lesbian movies, New Wave, Nouvelle Vague, sexual ambiguity, Stéphane Audran
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Je suis Un Soldat (I Am A Soldier)
Being good at a job that shatters morale is the belly-ache that groans deep in Sandrine (Louise Bourgoin), the steely-spirited thirty year-old who returns home from Paris and finds work at the dog kennels belonging to her uncle, Henri (Jean-Hugues … Continue reading
Posted in Belgian cinema, Belgian Film, Belgian Movie Reviews, Belgian Movies, Dogs in films, Dogs in movies, French Cinema, French Film, French film Review, French Movie Review, French Movies, Un Certain Regard
Tagged Dominique Besnehard, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Louise Bourgoin, Michel Feller
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Les Amants (The Lovers)
Louis Malle turns the table on femininity and ennui by placing Jeanne (Jeanne Moreau), a bourgeois late-fifties housewife, at the centre of a masterful triad of Polo, the driving car and a soundtrack by Brahms. They narrate her journey from … Continue reading
Posted in Film Review, French Cinema, French film Review, French Movie, French Movie Review, Louis Malle, Nouvelle Vague, The New Wave
Tagged Alain Cuny, Beaudelaire, Brahms, Classic Cars, French Cinema, French Film, French film review, French Movie Review, French Movies, Jean-Marc Bory, Jeanne Moreau, José Luis de Vilallonga, Judith Magre, Les Amants, Louis Malle, New Wave, Nouvelle Vague, Polo, The Lovers, Voluptuous
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