- Follow French Film Stories on WordPress.com
Archives
- September 2018
- September 2017
- August 2017
- March 2017
- January 2017
- November 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
Categories
Top Posts & Pages
-
Recent Posts
Tags
Pages
Recent Comments
Category Archives: Paris in film
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
1 Comment
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
Leave a comment
Nadja à Paris
Eric Rohmer’s early short film is a sweet, fresh postcard from 1960s Paris, written and narrated by American/Yugoslav exchange student Nadja Tesich who is preparing a thesis on Proust. Rohmer devotes the full 12 minutes to Nadja walking the streets … 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 short film reviews, French short films, Nouvelle Vague, Paris in film, Paris in the movies, The New Wave
Tagged Eric Rohmer, Les Femmes d'Eric Rohmer, Nadja à Paris, Nadja in Paris, Nadja Tesich, Women in the films of Eric Rohmer
Leave a comment
Parisiennes
Eriko Takeda plays Kyoko as a woman who knows her own mind, but at the same time welcomes Paris and wills it to change her. Continue reading