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Festival du Film Francophone d’Angoulême 2017
The Film Francophone d’Angoulême represents everything I love about French cinema. A cinema which focuses on characters unafraid of their reactions, and endings determined by their emotional truth, rather than a neat moral tidy-up. French cinema is considered by some to … Continue reading
Posted in French Actresses, French Cinema, French Film Festivals, French short films
Tagged #FFA2017, A Frog in Winter, Albert Dupontel, André Téchiné, Angoulême, Anne Wiazemsky, Atlantic Ocean, Au Revoir La-Haut, Bonne Pomme, Call My Agent, Catch the Wind, Catherine Deneuve, Céline Sallette, Cecile de France, Conversations, Death, Dix Pour Cent, Dominique Besnehard, Festival Film Francophone d’Angouleme, Film de Fesses, Florence Quentin, Friendship, Gérard Depardieu, Grenouille d’Hiver, Hiam Abbas, Jealousy, Jean-Luc Godard, Julie Nakache, La Belle Saison, La Redoutable, Le Clitoris, Louis Garrel, Marie-France Brière, Michel Hazanavicius, Muse, Netflix, New Release, New Wave, Niels Arestrup, Nos Annees Folles, Obsession, Pierre Deladonchamps, Pierre Lemaitre, Poilus, Potiche, Prendre Le Large, Quand J'etais Chanteur, Sandrine Bonnaire, Satin Rouge, Sexuality, Stacy Martin, The Artist, The Garden Party, Valerie Nagant, World War One, World War One in French Cinema, Xavier Giannoli
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Le Boucher (The Butcher)
A disturbed butcher falling for a small-town schoolteacher forms the blood and bones of Claude Chabrol’s classic 1970 thriller. Set in the heart of the Dordogne close to one of the region’s prehistoric caves, Popaul (Jean Yanne) is a needy … Continue reading
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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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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Pauline à la Plage (Pauline at the Beach)
Summertime fascination, Eric Rohmer-style, is a gentle flirtatious breeze, one that carries early-eighties sexuality and casual connections on the shore of a wild-Atlantic heart. Third in the ‘Comedies and Proverbes’ series, Pauline à la Plage follows fifteen-year old Pauline (Amanda … Continue reading
Posted in Eric Rohmer, Holiday Films, Nouvelle Vague, The New Wave, Vacation Movies
Tagged Amanda Langlet, Atlantic Ocean, Auteur, Comedies and Proverbs, Eric Rohmer, Féodor Atkine, Holiday films, Holiday movies, New Wave, Normandy, Nouvelle Vague, Pauline at the Beach, Pauline à la Plage, Sexuality, Vacation films, Vacation movies
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