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Tag Archives: Louis Malle
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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Les Femmes du 6e Étage (The Women on the 6th Floor)
Watching Fabrice Luchini fall in love, bemused, is a comforting pleasure. He’s something of a bourgeois older-Prince: a romantic heart, papered-over by routine, cynicism and gentle cowardice. It’s early-sixties Paris and stock-broker Jean-Louis (Luchini) and his socialite wife Suzanne (Sandrine … Continue reading
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Tagged Audrey Fleurot, Bourgeois, Fabrice Luchini, Le Souffle au Coeur, Les Femmes du 6e Étage, Louis Malle, Maid's Rooms in Paris, Natalia Verbeke, Paris, Philippe Le Guay, Sandrine Kiberlain, Sixties Paris, Spanish Maids, Stock-broker, The Heart Murmur, The Women on the 6th Floor
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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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