Stars: | Gross: Imbued with a dry, ironic sense of humour, the film is perhaps the directors most perfectly realised, and certainly his most moving. Classical in its intense simplicity, this is certainly Beckers most perfectly crafted film. Jean-Paul Belmondo, DJ, Have we talked about this film enough? The boss of a publishing company is a womanizer and a jerk, but what would happen if he suddenly disappeared? GA, Tatis most consistently enjoyable comedy, a gentle portrait of the clumsy, well-meaning Hulot on holiday in a provincial seaside resort. In 1960 French filmmaker Ren Clment was first to adapt Patricia Highsmiths 1955 novel The Talented Mr Ripley Anthony Minghella returned to it 40 years later with Matt Damon and Jude Law in the roles of Tom Ripley and Dickie Greenleaf, played here by Alain Delon and Maurice Ronet. Truffaut stars as indefatigable director Ferrand, shooting a fusty melodrama called Meet Pamela and wearing the same sports jacket, shirt and tie combo as he would in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Our team of GIA trained gemologists and luxury buyers are leading industry veterans. Hold on, pretty butterfly! says Clo (Corinne Marchand), a fretful and fame-occupied singer, to herself as she prepares to roam the city for two hours while awaiting a possibly momentous doctors verdict. But while some episodes are protracted, many are unforgettably funny, wonderfully observed, and always technically brilliant. Laurent Cantets Palme dOr-winning realist drama falls firmly into the latter category. 86 min As the scientists frantically try to trace their missing guinea pig, fragments of his past surface momentarily, recurringly. BBA. DC, The great Louis Malle shepherds all the elements of a great thriller into an endlessly entertaining, quickfire 88 minutes in this juicy Parisian noir. It was the making and the undoing of her: the pain somehow lent her singing an even greater emotional intensity, at the price of a punishing intake of drink and pills. | Centreing on a lavish country house party given by the Marquis de la Chesnaye and his wife (Dalio, Gregor), the film effects audacious slides from melodrama into farce, from realism into fantasy, and from comedy into tragedy. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, much of this funding was allocated to French mainstream cinema with established directors and producers. Pierre Brasseur, Votes: . If you are looking to sell diamonds, luxury jewelry, watches, handbags or sneakers we look forward to being of service and are on hand to answer any of your questions. 55,894 He confesses to the priest in front of his friends; he insists that the doctor be truthful. | | Charlotte Clasis, Macbook Pro. Its not the playthat moves him, but the lead actress, Clara (Alvaro). Unlike traditional buyers, we purchase your items directly. Living in Auvers-sur-Oise with his sensitive and knowledgeable patron Gachet (Sety), van Gogh (Dutronc) works quietly and steadily, meanwhile flirting with Gachets precocious daughter Marguerite (London). This is a confessional fantasy about a generation of men now in middle age, alienated from their sexuality, dissatisfied with their commerce, and unwilling to cope with a new sexual/political order. Newcomers to Bressons films may be surprised to hear that this is perhaps his most optimistic, open, sensuous and sexually charged film, given its dark Dostoyevskian subject-matter. DC, Arguably the quintessential subtitled film for people who dont like subtitled films (itd be a dust-up between this and Cinema Paradiso), Jean-Pierre Jeunets rose-tinted Parisian romance is likely to be the role for which actress Audrey Tautou will be remembered until her dying day. A critical and popular hit in France, Le Got des autres(literally, Other Peoples Taste) is a culture-clash comedy with the emphasis on culture. Bernadette, as always, obeyed and asked her. Remorques was begun in summer 39, shut down when war. No drops facts like lead balloons, but you have to admire Nos ballsy vision and loopy execution, and the way he sucks you into this world with such a bold fusion of sound and image. Stars: The seedy is the everyday. Paul Meurisse, The bravery she has shown throughout this film is not enough: She needs rescue. And sure, a lot of it can be hard for non-scholars to grasp pioneering New Wavers like Jean-Luc Godard and. No inflated or unrealistic price quotes. | | My favourite sentence: 'Few show both the beauty of humility in the face of injustice and the way this humility can be marbled with self-hatred.' Clouzots misanthropy concludes in total defeat; his naggingly over-insistent style occasionally achieves a great blackness. | But in another, this is his most personal work in years, less important for its return to narrative. The films frequent comedy erupts when Bernadettes humility exposes others wickedness and folly. Drama. The fact that his childish lead (Jean-Pierre Laud, of course) is too often in a strop to concentrate on the part, or that his star (Jacqueline Bisset) is a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown are accepted as part and parcel of the business. Film waves like the French New Wave and New French Extremity have influenced the cinema of Europe and the world to an extent greater than we can imagine. Stars: In the popular mind, its the most highfalutin of movie cultures, laden with philosophy, avant-garde structures and impenetrable characters. Daniel Pommereulle, Hayde Politoff, 76 min Classical in its intense simplicity, this is certainly Beckers most perfectly crafted film. 6. Babes a GoGo. Like Billy Liar made around the same time Umbrellas makes escapist play with the stuff of kitchen-sink social realism. Theres a comic-strip aspect, a roundelay of disguises, kidnappings, secret codes and acrobatic getaways. Stars: | Lists of French films. | One might describe Lge dOr as 63 minutes of coitus interruptus, a scabrous essay on Eros and civilisation, wherein a couple is constantly prised apart from furious love-making by the police, high society and, above all, the Church. He wants to tell you stories, but he cant find a story big enough to deal with his sense of contrasts, his wish to grasp fleeting moments, his recurring memories. Jacques Tati CC, Bambi Ballards 2000 restoration of cinemas supreme, grandiloquent epic (63 mins longer than the version premiered by Kevin Brownlow in 1979, tinted and with an extended three-screen climax) is the closest were ever likely to get to Gances original. New directors found it hard to enter the industry; those who did often attended the official French film school, L'Institut des Hautes-Etudes du Cinma (IDHEC) and then served long apprenticeships as assistants. Yes, Hulot as champion of the individual is oddly de-personalised. Down the mean streets of film noir walk hardboiled detectives, slinky femme fatales, and all manner of corrupt and brutal criminals. The final frame even includes an advertisement: Buy war bonds! In Marcel Carns rich, literary romance from 1945 ('France's answer to "Gone with the Wind'! Amateur illusionist Cline (Juliet Berto) and studious librarian Julie (Dominique Labourier) meet in a park and become practically inseparable so much so that they can try on each others identities like best friends swapping favourite apparel. | Inspector Wens moves into a Paris boarding house to catch a serial killer. Essentially, the plot is about an alibi, yet Melville turns this into a mythical revenge story, with Cathy Rosier as Delons black, piano-playing nemesis who might just as easily have stepped from the pages of Cocteau or Sophocles as Vogue. What is its mission now? Director: Death and maybe the DMT cause Oscar to revisit the events leading to his death. Henri-Georges Clouzot All her former adversaries are vanquished, but like Michael Myers, they rise up from behind the couch, as voices in her head. But beyond the films titular concerns (My Sex Life), its strength is in its surprising progression. Perhaps strangest of all is that the protagonists girlfriend seems for most of the film to be the only young female in town, but thats a very minor. FD, In spite/because of what must have seemed impeccable credentials Clair, the two leads, a screenplay by dramatist Armand Salacrou, and nostalgic, Mlis-inspired sets by Barsacq this version of the Faust legend is a turgidly literary cocktail of escapist fantasy and Sartrean engagement which could not even plead the excuse of Carns comparable Les Visiteurs du Soir of having been filmed during the Occupation. In 1993, Warner Bros. authorised Canal+ to use clips from WBs back catalogue, resulting in Canal+'s Le Grand Dtournement, one of the weirdest, most hallucinatory films of all time. The result is something utterly indescribable, partway between comedy and tragedy, romance and realism, film and dream. | Some lovely Hitchcockian games, like the strange ketchup that drips onto a picnic hamburger from a clifftop where the latest victim has been claimed. It was a huge hit at the box office and won four Oscars, which might make it a classic or might just make it a time capsule. This repressive legislation caused a dramatic effect in filmmaking, and important figures of the industry left the country to work freely elsewhere. CA, In 1962, Trauffaut released an adaptation of Henri-Pierre Rochs novel Jules et Jim. Jane Sourza, Raymond Souplex, Louis de Funs. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. Catherine Hessling, NF, Jean-Paul Belmondo mooches up to Samuel Fuller at a party and, naturally, asks him his thoughts on cinema. ^ "Review of the film la Famille Duraton (1939)". per page 1. DJ, Eric Rohmers 1969 work made his name outside of France and preceded enduring works like Pauline at the Beach and The Green Ray. Jany Holt, | Walter Green, Thank you, Eve and don't all the male commenters finding it 'silly' etc. | 81 min | In Marcel Carns rich, literary romance from 1945 (Frances answer to Gone with the Wind!), four men tussle for the affections of one woman, the conflicted, sphinx-like Garence (Carn regular Arletty), an ice maiden in the league of Marlene Dietrich who, in nearly every shot, has her eyes masked by a beam of light. With dialogues by writer Marc Cholodenko and a jazzy saxophone score by Barney Wilen, the Les Baisers de Secours has all the spontaneity and cool sensibility of a Cassavetes flick. But he adds genre thrills to excellent effect, too, as well as the odd semi-surreal touch (the plot revolves around a missing lion cub). Fuller replies: Film is like a battleground. Revisiting it now, it still has the same strengths: the experience of watching is like being swept along on a tidal wave of cheeky jokes and oddball observations. The nonsensical plot follows three reporters (Newman, Hoffman and Redford), all investigating the death of George Abitbol (John Wayne), described as the classiest man in the world. Audran and Bouquet, as the first of Chabrols recurring Charles/Hlne couples, are superb in discovering secret parts of each other denied as much by complacency as convention. | Now stop imagining things and go to see Sans Soleil, in which Marker, cinemas greatest essayist, sums up a lifetimes travels, speculations and passions. They razz each other about films, cartoons, nothing in particular, but always the gun hovers over them like a death sentence, the black-and-white focal point for all the hatred they meet with, and all they can give back. | Les Diaboliques (1955) is the perfect psychosexual thriller, and this earlier effort is Hitchs bomb-under-the-table suspense formula burnished to an expert sheen. The carnage of the rabbit shoot, the intimations of mortality introduced by the after-dinner entertainment, and Renoirs own performance are all unforgettable. A wanted gangster is both king and prisoner of the Casbah. Franois Leterrier, (August 2008) A list of MS, A child smiles in his toy-filled room as Santa emerges from the chimney piece, but joy turns to terror as the bearded visitor is followed by more of the same; cut to a man screaming in a laboratory where, unable to dream himself, he has stolen the nightmare of a kidnapped orphan. In his angry yet compassionate denunciation of a rural society corrupting and undoing an unorthodox angel by self-interest, immorality, alcoholism and spiritual bankruptcy, the director conducts you to the heart of lifes paradox. Stars: Jumping in, however, can be difficult and ranking the greatest French films is no easy task. EV, In 1960 French filmmaker Ren Clment was first to adapt Patricia Highsmiths 1955 novel The Talented Mr Ripley Anthony Minghella returned to it 40 years later with Matt Damon and Jude Law in the roles of Tom Ripley and Dickie Greenleaf, played here by Alain Delon and Maurice Ronet. For Desplechin, Junons crisis is an excuse to explore endless family rifts, hidden desires, past traumas and emotional diversions. | Daniel Boulanger, TB, Twenty-four hours in the Paris projects: an Arab boy is critically wounded in hospital, gut-shot, and a police revolver has found its way into the hands of a young Jewish skinhead, Vinz (Cassel), who vows to even the score if his pal dies. French/Italian co-production: The Butcher: Claude Chabrol: Stphane Audran, Jean Yanne, Pasquale Ferone: Thriller: French/Italian co-production: Cannabis: Pierre Koralnik: Serge The doctrine of Mary in this role had just been ruled on by the Vatican. The obligatory cross-references are still there (blood in the sink; the exactly appropriate final use of simultaneous backtrack and forward zoom adapted from Vertigo), but theyre no longer there to legitimise a vision now mature. A hell of a woman is here an enigmatically passive 17-year-old (Trintignant), while the weary hero is rendered hyperactive in Dewaeres tornado-strength performance, hysterical rages, comic monologues and all. A critical and popular hit in France, Le Got des autres. GA, Four characters. Bourgeois-scum Claude Chabrol territory, essentially, but done with a more commercial eye for showing off Schneider and Delons bronzed curves. | The church should listen to both. | It traces paunchy, middle-aged publisher and lecturer Pierre Lachenay (Jean Desailly) as he heedlessly ditches his loving wife and child so he can romp around the countryside with a coquettish air hostess (Franoise Dorlac). The sets, special effects, photography, pace and performances all contribute to the brash comic-strip vivacity, and even the fairytale romance avoids sentimentality. , Hulot as champion of the clumsy, well-meaning Hulot on holiday in a provincial seaside resort to the. 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