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Belle de Jour (Beauty of the Day)
Corridors of erotic fantasies help Séverine (Catherine Deneuve) navigate the confines of her private and public life. Or, as the original trailer says: ‘a divorce between the soul and the flesh.’ Séverine has been married to her doctor husband, Pierre … Continue reading
Posted in Auteur, Film Review, French Cinema, French Film, French film Review, French Movie, French Movie Reveiw, French Movie Reviews, French Movies, Gender, Melancholy, romance, Sexuality
Tagged Beauty of the Day, Belle de Jour, Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Luis Buñuel, Prostitution in French cinema, Sexual Fantasies in French cinema
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Véronique et son Cancre (Veronica and her Dunce)
Eric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol’s sharp arrow strikes at the heart of all that’s rotten about unimaginative teaching … Continue reading
Posted in Auteur, Claude Chabrol, Comedy, Eric Rohmer, Eric Rohmer short film, Film Review, French Cinema, French comedy-drama, French Film, French film Review, French Movie, French Movie Reveiw, French Movies, French short film reviews, French short films, Movie Review, Nouvelle Vague, The New Wave
Tagged Alain Deirieu, Education in French cinema, Education in French film, Education in French movies, Nicole Berger, Stella Dassas, Véronique et son Cancre, Veronica and her Dunce
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L’Amour l’Après-Midi (Love in the Afternoon)
It’s a small, claustrophobic world in which Frédéric (Bernard Verley) moves. He has his family at home, and his work in the office. The Paris streets are busy and full of attractive women and with all the strength and passion … Continue reading
Posted in Auteur, Eric Rohmer, Film Review, French Cinema, French Film, French film Review, French Movie, French Movie Reveiw, French Movie Reviews, French Movies, Nouvelle Vague, Paris in film, Paris in the movies, romance, Sexuality, The New Wave
Tagged Bernard Verley, Eric Rohmer, Françoise Verley, Infidelity in French Cinema, L’Amour l’Après-Midi, Love in the Afternoon, Six Moral Tales, Zouzou
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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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Madame Bovary
Isabelle Huppert places a sad stone in Emma Bovary, one that will never move … Continue reading
Posted in Auteur, Claude Chabrol, Film Review, French Cinema, French Film, French film Review, French Movie, French Movie Reveiw, French Movie Reviews, French Movies, Literary adaptation in French cinema, Madame Bovary, Nouvelle Vague, Sexuality, The New Wave
Tagged Claude Chabrol, Gustave Flaubert, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-François Balmer, Jean-Michel Bernard, Madame Bovary, Matthieu Chabrol
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Charlotte et Son Steak
The simple preparation of a steak by a woman intellectually resistant to the dry charm of an intense man (played by Jean-Luc Godard) comprises this neat 10-minute short, directed and written by Eric Rohmer at the very beginning of his … Continue reading
Posted in Auteur, Eric Rohmer, Eric Rohmer short film, Film Review, French Cinema, French Film, French film Review, French Movie, French Movie Reveiw, French Movie Reviews, French Movies, French short film reviews, French short films, romance
Tagged Andrée Bertrand, Cahiers du cinéma, Eric Rohmer, French Cinema, Jean-Luc Godard, Nouvelle vague in Switzerland, Stéphane Audran
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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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Conte d’Automne (An Autumn Tale)
Match-making, loneliness and re-writing the rules of love are the mellow sunsets in Éric Rohmer’s Conte d’Automne (An Autumn Tale) Continue reading
Posted in Auteur, Eric Rohmer, French Film, French film Review, French Movie, French Movie Reviews, French Movies, Nouvelle Vague
Tagged An Autumn Tale, Béatrice Romand, Claire’s Knee, Conte d’Automne, Contes des Quatre Saisons, Eric Rohmer, Genou de Claire, La Femme d’Aviateur, Le Beau Mariage, Le Rayon Vert, Machiavelli, Marie Rivière, Rhône Valley, Tales of the Four Seasons, The Aviators Wife, The Green Ray, Vendage, Vineyard films, Vineyard movies
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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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