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Tag Archives: French Cinema
Le Souffle au Coeur (Murmur of the Heart)
If you’re a teenage boy in a post-war bourgeois family, struggling with a cold father, a Catholic education and two mischievous older brothers, there are three pleasures in life: a mother’s love, Jazz music, and the slow, self-conscious introduction to … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Film Review, French Cinema
Tagged Adolescence, Adolescence in French film, Benoît Ferreux, French Cinema, French Film, Le Souffle au Coeur, Lea Massari, Louis Malle, Moral taboos in Film, Moral taboos in French cinema, Mother and son bond in French film, Mother love in French Cinema, Mother love in French film, Murmur of the Heart, Sexuality
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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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Grenouille d’Hiver (Winter Frog)
Gérard Depardieu is a grey, sad viticulturist, and Eriko Takeda disturbs the tombs in his eyes … Continue reading
Posted in French Cinema, French Film, Grenouille d’Hiver, Japanese culture in France, Winter Frog
Tagged Death, East meets West in cinema, Eriko Takeda, French Cinema, French Film, French film review, French movie, French Movie Review, French movies about wine, Gérard Depardieu, Great French Short Films, Great French Short Movies, Grenouille d’Hiver, Images of Japan in French cinema, Mourning, Sabine Lenoël, Slony Sow, Winter Frog
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21 Nuits avec Pattie (21 Nights with Pattie)
Like a grown-up Alice stepping into Wonderland, Parisian fortysomething (‘Caroline’ played by Isabelle Carré) arrives at her recently deceased mother’s country house in southern France to organise her funeral. She finds her mother’s corpse, resembling a man in drag, in … Continue reading
Posted in French Cinema, French Film, French film Review, French Movie, French Movie Reviews
Tagged 21 Nights with Pattie, 21 Nuits avec Pattie, André Dussollier, Arnaud Larrieu, French Cinema, French Film, French film review, French films set in the South of France, French movie, French Movie Review, Isabelle Carré, Jean-Marie Larrieu, Karin Viard, Necrophilia, Sexuality
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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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Merci Pour Le Chocolat
‘I have a knack for doing wrong,’ confesses Swiss-Chocolate factory owner Mika Muller (Isabelle Huppert), the praline beauty in Claude Chabrol’s detective-style thriller. Chabrol wanted to make a film about ‘Evil’, chose Huppert as its purveyor, and from the opening … Continue reading
Posted in Claude Chabrol, French Cinema, French Film, Merci Pour le Chocolat, Thriller
Tagged Anna Mouglalis, Auteur, Catholicism, Chabrol's confessions, Childhood repression, Claude Chabrol, Detective genre, Evil personified, Fairytale evil, French Cinema, French Film, French film review, Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Merci Pour Le Chocolat, Movies with pianists, Rodolphe Pauly, Swiss chocolate in the movies, Thriller
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La French (The Connection)
Jean Dujardin and Gilles Lellouche latest on-screen collaboration places them on the opposite sides of a heady 70s Marseille landscape. Based on real-events at the time, La French sees magistrate Pierre Michel’s (Dujardin) attempts to break-up Marseille’s roaring heroin trade and … Continue reading
Timbuktu
An elegiac, much-lauded film, in which love, family, music, faith and football (plus a little eccentricity) bind the town of Timbuktu, despite the controlling, uncompromising presence of the Jihadists. Abderrahmane Sissako directs and writes with a poet’s sensibility, seeking emotional … Continue reading
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Tagged Abderrahmane Sissako, Eccentricty, Film Review, French Cinema, French Film, Ibrahim Ahmed dit Pino, Timbuktu, Toulu Kiki
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Elle L’Adore (She Worships Him)
An obsessive fertile imagination is vital to securing freedom for divorced Parisian beautician, Muriel (Sandrine Kiberlain) in this Claude Chabrol-style thriller. When rock star Vincent Lacroix (Laurent Lafitte) accidentally kills his girlfriend during a lover’s tiff, he approaches Muriel, his … Continue reading