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Gabin's best in the seventies
In France , in the first half of the seventies , the rural thriller was trendy , hip . There was " La Veuve Couderc " " La Horse " ( featuring Gabin , which , though it is pure fiction , looks like " l'Affaire Dominici " ) " Les Granges Brûlées " . . . Their granddaddy was Becker's unsurpassed classic " Goupi Mains Rou...
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Fall from grace . .
There are movies which are absorbing just because there are actors who are able to transcend an academic directing : Sigourney Weaver is part of them , and she gets fine support from the whole cast ( with the eventual exceptions of the two lawyers , two cardboard characters , and some of the jail inmates ) . " Crime an...
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All promises - relatively - fulfilled .
Based on novelist Romain Gary's biography , this is a good film by Jules Dassin . Melina Mercouri may ham it up , but here with good results for her character of a Jewish mom is really convincing , and it's the main asset of Dassin's work . The director was succumbing to the vices of European cinema of the era : the sl...
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Walking on a wire
One of the first Litvak French movies , " Cette Vieille Canaille " stars Harry Baur , who was Julien Duvivier's favorite interpret at the time . He portrays an old wealthy man , in love with a woman much younger than he is . His rival is an acrobat ( Pierre Blanchar ) . Realizing his wife is only with him for the money...
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super tramps . . .
Michel Berthier has been an executive in a mattress firm for ten years . One day , he's learning that he is fired . He doesn't want to reveal it to his wife Juliette and tries to artificially his life . But within a few weeks , things happen quickly : he is thrown out from his home by his wife and finds himself out on ...
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This movie is OK but I expected better
Like " American Beauty " , like " le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain " I think " Rushmore " ranks among the most overrated movies of these last years . But , unlike the two quoted movies , this movie rather pleased me although I don't regard it as a masterpiece . I thought that some sides of the screenplay were incons...
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What about Ellery Queen ?
All comments bar one are very negative , no one mentions writer Ellery Queen , those two cousins who gave some of the best murder mysteries of the twentieth century . Theirs is the metaphysical detective story ( Borges admired Ellery Queen ) , theirs is the unexpected final clue , theirs is the " nursery chryme " dear ...
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some upsetting battle sequences for a plain story
War movies have often been one of Steven Spielberg ' specialities . This one achieved a huge public and critic success . What drew the attention in this war movie are fight sequences . They're extremely violent and bloody . We have been rarely so far in the reality of fights . It's difficult to forget the first half an...
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There are places I remember in my life . . . ( John Lennon )
Dernières vacances , although it retains a certain charm and it did introduce highly talented Odile Versois ( they were four sisters , all of Russian extraction ; for the record the three others were / are Marina Vlady ( the most popular ) , Olga Poliakoff and Hélène Vallier ) , has not worn that well . It depicts a ...
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a typical Francis Veber product
In the delicious " le Dîner De Cons " ( 1998 ) by the same director Francis Veber , Pierre Brochant ( Thierry Lhermitte ) says to his doctor on a dogged tone : " I've got a damn fool of world class tonight ! . . . " . The viewer who discovers " Tais-toi ! " for the very first time could attribute as well this opinion t...
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Poor Howard Buten . . . .
This film is obviously an adaptation from Howard Buten's novel . I read it when I was about 12 and I wanted to see the film because I didn't understand numerous points in the novel ( by the time I read it , I was told that it was a difficult book and now I agree with that ) . Concerning this screen adaptation , on the ...
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Nous vaincrons . ( We shall overcome )
Un pur moment de rock and roll , the title , is a misnomer . It is not about rock and roll unless this music equals drugs and nothing else . The first part deals with the daily life of a handful of junkies , one of them suffering from aids , their ceaseless fight to get their dose , their thefts and their hopes ( if ...
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Gina as Lina
Lollobrigida is a feast for the eye , but the screenplay leaves something to be desired . The movie is in turn : - a biography of a prima donna at the dawn of the twentieth century . Or to be precise a biographical novel . A long and winding road where Lina learns that the way to the top might go through men's beds . -...
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the individual is the amount of the personalities he has
It's the second effort from René Manzor I watch after " le Passage " ( 1986 ) which was a turkey and this one is several notches above at the level of quality . If you were fond of the linear but absorbing " Primal Fear " ( 1996 ) and the stylish " Fight Club " ( 1999 ) , then , " Dédales " may appeal you . It is an of...
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. . . Cause I was raised on robbery . . .
Nicolas Gessner's debut was a pleasant comedy where contentment reigned . A sweet dreamer ( Claude Rich ) who works in a Swiss bank in Geneva wants to become rich , but as he was not raised on robbery , like gorgeous Bettina ( Jean Seberg ) whose mother is the brains of a gang , he's got a good idea : let the others do...
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Not so terrible .
Only one comment and a very negative one . It's not that much bad . It will never be a horror classic but it's original , it has a screenplay ( 95 % of horror movies rely on special effects today ) , and two very good leads : Anny Duperey - some users will remember she was Al Pacino's co-star in " Bobby Deerfield " - i...
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not the masterwork it is supposed to be
Alain Corneau is part of the fixture in French cinema and delivered highly estimable pieces of work throughout his career . Hence the diversity of the genres he explored either it is the adventure film with " Nocturne Indien " ( 1989 ) , probably his finest hour or the detective film with " Police Python 357 " ( 1976 )...
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losing my religion . . .
Making a movie that aims at laughing at religion is in itself a delicate operation but Kevin Smith managed to get out very well of this deadlock . His weird but funny movie is based on a plain and simple story . But " Dogma " is especially a movie that mocks at religion and its prejudice . It suggests a zany and blasph...
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Never marry a railroad man .
Among Christian-Jaque huge filmography there is an appreciable amount of works where the director pays a tribute to great men : " La Symphonie Fantastique " ( Hector Berlioz ) , " D'Homme à Hommes " ( the Red Cross ) " Destinées " ( 3rd sketch : Lysistrata invents " make love not war " years B . C . ) " Si Tous Les Gar...
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Better reading the book .
The conclusion was taken from Christie's adaptation of her novel for the stage . Hence the big difference ! The biggest flaw of this passable suspense story lies in the characters : some of them have been downright ruled out : such is the case of Miss Brent , the old narrow-minded spinster ; she's turned into a sophist...
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the bakers stripped bare ?
One negative comment for this little comedy of manners , it's a little unfair . I would tend to be more generous towards Franck Landron's effort which has the merit to bring to the light of day a social phenomenon rarely explored in cinema : naturist communities . I agree with the precedent viewer who deemed the end of...
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back street is over
This is a love triangle but it's not the melodrama of the thirties where the abandoned woman had to die alone ( " Back Street " ) or to become a businesswoman ( " Imitation of life " ) or to do both ( " Only yesterday " ) . Now the mistress has a good job and she does not want to renege on love . that said , the story ...
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A melodrama : it has its moments
To try to find some of the seeds which produced Renoir's masterpieces of the thirties is splitting hairs . All we can say is that it shows Renoir's taste for nature , rivers , country landscapes . The heroine called Gudule ( the name has become completely ludicrous in today's France ; no one is called Gudule anymore ) ...
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Up above the sky so high . . . . .
Supernova is a film which cannot easily be categorized . A psychological drama ? A spoof on politicians ? A sci-fi journey ? A walk in the dead's kingdom ? Probably all this and more . A politician wants to commit suicide but he renounces and on her way back home he is hurt by a meteorite . Bedridden in a gloomy hosp...
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look where rash lying can lead you
The title of Pierre Salvadori's third effort is the second part of a French expression concerning lies . In English , one would translate as " he's a compulsive liar " . The chief subject of " Comme Elle Respire " partly revolves around the art of lying and this characteristic will also be prevailing in " Après Vous " ...
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These boots are made for walking
Less interesting than his two sensational thrillers ( " the Boston strangler " " 10 Rillington place " ) , " Blind terror " aka ( aptly called ) " see no evil " is nonetheless a must for suspense buffs . Located in the splendid landscapes of a green England , it's an exciting thriller , some kind of country " Wait unti...
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Woman's lib ? ? ?
Adapted from a scandalous Victor Margueritte novel , " la garçonne " - aka " jalousie " - is a movie which features three distinct parts : 1 . A bourgeois girl lives a life of luxury ( tennis ) ; her parents want her to marry for money though , because of the decline of their business . She discovers that her fiancé ch...
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Grand Hotel or the judgment of Solomon
Another Simenon's book transferred to the screen . Richard Pottier is an odd job man of the French cinema but some of his works were worthwhile : from the comedy ( " Fanfare d'amour " the remake of which was none other than " some like it hot " ) to the historical melodrama ( Caroline Chérie ) to detective stories ( le...
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not one of the best thrillers made in 2002 but probably the quietest one !
Without following the fashions of the moment , without caring to know if his movie will ride high in the box-office and at the age of 72 , Clint Eastwood , one of the giants of the American cinema doesn't really intend to retire as " Blood Work " ( 2002 ) testifies . Unlike a lot of energetic and terse detective movies...
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Inside a small circle of soldiers .
Son of a French famous director ( Maurice ) , but an American citizen since 1919 when his father came to Hollywood , Jack ( Jacques ) Tourneur began his career in the land of Victor Hugo with funny comedies such as " Toto " . But he is best remembered for his thrillers ( " out of the past " ) , his adventures films ( "...
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Stage fright
According to the Cahiers Du Cinema theory , Gilles Grangier was a mediocre director , cause he did not " innovate " . These hackneyed ideas do not stand up to hindsight . Cause Grangier did innovate in this movie : 1 ) He begins his movie with the end of a play , with all the actors bowing to the audience ! 2 ) The sub...
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He is innocen
This is a typically eighties movie , with all the clichés around : the brilliant lawyer - of course she is a divorcée - , the handsome guy who may or may not be a cynical killer . . . and of course a long trial . The screenplay is full of holes : witnesses for the prosecution or for the defense appear and disappear muc...
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What lies beneath
Le secret was overshadowed by Robert Enrico's blockbuster " Le Vieux Fusil " released the following year . I have always thought that that movie - also featuring Noiret-was largely overrated . " Le Secret " is a different matter : it's a return to mystery , irrational , and madness , tendencies Enrico had displayed i...
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Jed , Andy , Tracy and the jack of clubs .
The first thing to bear in mind is that there are ( like in Hitchcock's " family plot " , there the comparison ends ) TWO distinct plots : - The threesome Baldwin / Pullman / Kidman and the ominous plans of some of them . - And then a serial killer who hangs about the campus , in the college where Andy works . There's ...
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Nuns story
This first Bresson effort has not worn well . The director himself did not like it , and it is sure easy to see why . A non - French audience will not notice it , but the actresses here are professional , some of them were stars of the era . The great Sylvie , Renée Faure , Jany Holt were famous in France when they sta...
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The continuing story of Lola .
People who know Demy's work will notice the connection between " Lola " " les parapluies de Cherbourg " and " model shop " : the first and the third feature Lola , both played by Anouk Aimée , and the first and the second one feature Roland , Lola's unfortunate lover . They will notice how Gary Lockwood , who plays the...
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it's so hard to get love . . .
In the end of the twentieth Century , the teenage movie came back into vogue in the landscape of the French cinema , this movie made by Anne-Sophie Birot confirms it and reveals her own approach in the content and form about the difficult condition of being a teenager . By dividing her movie in 3 chapters , by delaying...
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Waiting for Spring
A melodrama which takes off mainly in its second part , when Sabre ( Pidgeon ) does everything to help Effie ( Janet Leigh ) , the unfortunate young girl who falls pregnantat a time it was not considered " correct " by well-meaning people . Fine depiction of everyday life and plenty of talk of the town . Angela Landsbu...
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The Anastasia syndrome .
Man ( Vanel ) comes back from WW1 and finds again his wife and kid ; he suffers from amnesia . As he is a wealthy notable , gossips surface . Is he really the man he claims to be ? There's a trial but he wins his case thanks to a mysterious person ( Berry ) who turns to be a blackmailer . Adapted from a Kafka novel ( n...
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It's lonely in a coffin
The comparison with Melville is irrelevant . Never Melville tried to put the society on trial . His characters are puppets who have no control on their life . " The Samourai " may be , depending on whom you ask , an admirable flick , but it has no militant side . Tragedy must happen , it happens , period . Giovanni , w...
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not the worst of the trilogy and not the best
Raiders of the lost ark is arguably the movie that in 1981 gave back to the adventure movie its credibility around three points : exoticism , action and effectiveness . This is a movie hurried things along without any idle times and the one that established Harrison Ford's reputation , unforgettable and irreplaceable...
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Henri Jeanson's lines . . . .
. . . . , even when he's not at his best are always better than the rest . Although it's a swashbuckler , an action-packed story , it's the kind of movie which loses much of its strength when watched dubbed . Released at the end of the swashbucklers era , whose hero was most of the time Jean Marais , " la tulipe noire ...
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His last film proves the legend true .
George Cukor is an actresses director . He told himself it was nothing but an old cliché , probably as old as the hills , as old as " gone with the wind " when Leigh and De Havilland went on rehearsing with him even after he was fired . But this cliché is completely true here . Every scene where Jacqueline Bisset and C...
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The continuing story of Montaldo in politics
Montaldo's precedent work was about America ' s famous political prisoners Sacco and Vanzetti . Ennio Morricone's score was as excellent as usual and he asked Joan Baez to write four songs , the words of three of them were taken from letters of Vanzetti . And there was Gian Maria Volonte who like Baez was a committed a...
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Cousin Cousine
Les Liens De Sang got chilly reviews in Chabrol's native France and the movie has sunk into oblivion . Made at a time when Chabrol was really good again ( it was made between " Alice Ou La Dernière Fugue " and " Violette Nozière " ) , after a period of barren inspiration ( 1974 / 1975 ) , you can enjoy this movie pro...
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The four seasons
Based on the opera's libretto , the screenplay suffers for it : as it is not sung , except for one song , the story is sometimes hard to follow , although it's very slow ; for instance , in the opera , Rodolfo ( Rodolphe ) sings his pain when he learns that Mimi is terminally-ill : here he tells it to his friends much ...
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French airmail .
Like John Ford's " airmail " and Howard Hawks ' s " Only angels have wings " , " au grand balcon " deals with the heroic pilots who struggled , suffered and often died to carry the mail . Their boss ( a deadpan and seemingly insensitive Pierre Fresnay ) wants them to consider the mail as a God . George Marchal - who wa...
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You say you want a revolution . . .
. . . . but you come too soon . André Hugon made the first talkie in France ( " Les Trois Masques " , 1929 ) . His whole work has sunk into oblivion , but this " Gaspard de Besse " indicates that this is relatively unfair . A good adventure film featuring Raimu as a French Robin Hood's brother , " Gaspard de Besse " ta...
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Delon and Schneider back together . . .
After ten years . Their last and only movie together ( Schneider had only a cameo in " plein soleil " ) was " Christine " . That movie helped Delon become a star when his partner was famous ( the " Sissi saga " ) . But Schneider's career ran into difficulties when she tried to get rid of her image of a very nice Austri...
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Sci-fi is now kiddies ' world .
From " Star Wars " onwards , sci-fi became the most popular genre for a while . It as a return to simplicity , in spite of the huge special effects . Actually , the screenplay could have been written by a ten-year old , and the characters , stereotyped and Manichean , will not do any harm , will not raise intellectual ...
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Frank Villard as Wencelas Vorobeitchic . . alias Monsieur Wens . . .
Immediate background : two novels by Belgian Steeman proved highly successful : " Le Dernier des Six " by Georges Lacombe ( based on a HG Clouzot screenplay ) and " L'Assassin Habite au 21 " by Clouzot himself ( his debut ) both featured detective Wens who was not even in the latter novel . Clouzot added his then-partn...
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Find the river .
The river king is not particularly original , but it creates an atmosphere with its snowy landscapes and its frozen rivers . The entire town seems to be wrapped in mystery and to be the center of a huge conspiracy which would involve some grown-ups too : the science teacher's words sometimes recall some of " the skul...
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Brotherhood of the wolves .
A remake of a silent movie of the twenties which is impossible to see nowadays , " le miracle des loups " ( the title is right : the wolves really work a miracle here ) is mainly a vehicle for Jean Marais's prowess . King of the swashbuckler genre in France in the 1955-1965 era , he was the hero of many a young French ...
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Programmed for your pleasure , viewer . . . .
It was obviously made to capitalize on the ( deserving ) success of " Mondwest " ( 1973 ) : Yul Brynner has a cameo in this sequel . But , although the movie borrows from other works ( notably " invasion of the body snatchers " ( 1956 , 1978 , and another remake in the nineties ) for the last sequences , it's quite ent...
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to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter kingdom of heaven
That's what is written in the Gospel and it could be a metaphorical illustration for the tail end of the film with a surrealist odor . By her simple acting , her easily recognizable voice , Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi has become one of the most endearing actresses in the landscape of French cinema . When a viewer watches on...
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Broken wings .
France had begun its first experiments in Cinemascope : these ( still rare ) movies all dealt with historic events : there was Dreville's " LA Fayette " , Gance ' s " Austerlitz " and this one " Napoleon II : L'Aiglon " . But these works had more in common : the lead was not really a big star , even by France's standar...
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Meet Joe Doe
Joe is an American blue collar , a diehard who despises niggers and fags . He could be French ( then he would loathe Arabs and fags ) or German ( then he would abhor Turks and . . . ) or . . you name it . That kind of guy needs scapegoats to escape the mediocrity of his own life . He's universal . We have all met such ...
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a game not like the other ones
Jumanji is a quite original movie which the main attraction are outstanding special effects . They're extracted from a fair screenplay that becomes a little diabolical when it shows us the rules of the game " jumanji " and when the fierce creatures appear suddenly . It's a pity that the director , Joe Johnston doesn'...
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Le voile bleu or Petain's France .
This melodrama is now dated as hell . It is a mushy movie , a tear-jerker , the French cinema at its kitschest . A woman , who's lost her husband during the war and her son , sacrifices her life to the others ' children . Gaby Morlay's nanny is Petainist moral flesh on the bone : woman was born to be a mother and to ra...
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From a wreck to a human being .
The plot is far-fetched and a lot of elements might seem questionable : the whodunit , Dennis Quaid's cynical character , the umpteenth courtroom drama . . . But everything vanishes when it comes to depict the Cher / Liam Neeson relationship . Both shine , especially the latter , who , being deaf and dumb , has to expr...
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Geisha blues
Although Max Ophuls ' works of that era are not highly praised ( " Werther " " Sans Lendemain " " De Mayerling A Sarajevo " ) , they nevertheless bear the stamp of the director . These are all romantic stories with doomed lovers , be they fictitious ( the two first movies ) or historic ( the latter ) . " Yoshiwara " wa...
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The old maid
Annie Girardot was THE French actress of the seventies . An outspoken nice personality , she's cast against type as an old maid . But she's so good a thespian that she pulls it off with gusto , abetted by an excellent Philippe Noiret , himself cast as a bachelor . Both are having a vacation at the seaside in a hotel . ...
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the seeds
The Dardenne brothers ' devotees who admired such strong works as " Rosetta " ( 1999 ) or " le Fils " ( 2002 ) , why not giving a go to this piece of work that the two Belgian brothers created in 1992 ? But be warned , don't expect something of the same caliber or intensity like the films quoted above . As a matter of ...
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Save the last dance for B .
Voulez-vous danser avec moi is really weird : it's not a comedy , but it looks like one sometimes , it's not a thriller , but it looks like one sometimes . It includes murder , blackmail , transvestites , a dancing school , an old " gothic " house , a dentist's office and a gay club ( " le fétiche bleu " ! ! ) . PLus...
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the film Flaubert would have made from his novel
This was Claude Chabrol's intention and it's easier to say than to do . Gustave Flaubert's novel was so rich , undulating that any adaptation in images can only be reducing and simplistic . More than the tragic story of its heroine , Flaubert's novel encompassed a word picture of Normandy ( the bulk of the film was sho...
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Les grandes gueules .
With " L'Empreinte des Géants " , Robert Enrico returns to his favorite subject : manly friendship against a hostile world . He had begun in this vein with his " les Grandes Gueules " and reached a peak with the following work " Les Aventuriers " . Nothing is left from the ambitious first efforts such as " Au Coeur de ...
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Place your bets in Macao .
Fact : although the movie was to be released in 1939 , it was postponed to 1942 . WW2 had broken out and all Stroheim's scenes were remade with Pierre Renoir instead of the Austrian actor / director . After the liberation , the original version was shown in the theaters . Jean Delannoy , although always put down by the...
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Topical movie .
Abuse was not a subject people used to talk about in the late sixties . How many children suffered and refused to speak ? André Cayatte , the former lawyer , was the first in France to tackle this taboo subject . Often dismissed as unhip and academic by the likes of the nouvelle vague , Cayatte was nevertheless the fir...
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Beware of dentists
A good thriller , which loses steam halfway through , but regains its interest in the last thirty minutes , thanks to a very good unexpected twist . Yes there was such a thing almost fifty years ago . An aging Stewart Granger portrays a wealthy British Bourgeois with a shady past whose marriage with Nicole ( the beauti...
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Genesis
In her memoirs , Ava Gardner wrote that she hated some of her lines , notably when she had to tell her servant she would give children to her husband . " I just cannot say that , it's not my style " But the director answered : " my dear , you will " . " The Bible " is par excellence the movie Huston's fans love to hate...
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A few lines in the Bible . . . .
. . . and presto ! a screenplay ! I do not exaggerate : there are five or six lines given over to Sheba in the Bible . She came to visit Solomon and suggested riddles to him . Then she came back singing the king's praises . These riddles allow double entente mind you . So why not a love story between Solomon and Sheba ...
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The actors make it worthwhile
On the Christmas eve , a fire breaks out in a big supermarket . For this unscrupulous scrap ( metal ) merchant , Constant Van Loo ( Bernard Giraudeau ) , it's an heaven-sent opportunity to get rid of his wife Annette by pretending she died in the flames whereas in reality he dropped her from the top of a big furnace . ...
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Philippe Labro's first effort . .
. . . and his best . All that he made afterward can easily be dismissed as rubbish . A journalist - he also wrote words for some songs - he dreamed of the American cinema because he spent some of his youth on the other side of the pond . Actually , we're closer to Agatha Christie's whodunit than to American film noir ....
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Escape from the Boulle planet .
Visually , this film is sometimes a splendor ; the light falls on a crepuscular world . The Apes ' town is quite scary particularly when you see it from a distance , as it stands out against an ominous sky . In the very beginning , the cast and credits are also successful , with an adequate martial music . The first th...
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Despite a hollywoodian ending . . .
. . . which mars the film a little , " the forgotten " is a good thriller . Excellent performances by Julianne Moore , as the distraught mom and Gary Sinise , as the suave quiet shrink . The movie is essentially a chase with echoes of the " twilight zone " series thrown in for good measure . There are really eerie scen...
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The bride wore black but the movie did not .
Truffaut was one of William Irish's greatest fans ; he wrote a preface for an edition of the American writer's short stories . Not only he directed this movie but he adapted " la sirène du mississipi " too . There's just one problem . Irish's absolute tragic side totally eludes Truffaut . A critic wrote that this write...
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6
La Belle Epoque
La Belle Epoque , just before WW1 is just a cliché . Was it so beautiful ? Was it the lost paradise ? Certainly not . When he depicted France ( it was not the first time : see also " Madame Bovary " feat also Louis Jourdan as Rodolphe Boulanger ; " An American in Paris " " lust for life " and " the four horsemen of t...
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6
Fine directing , makes up for the weakness of the screenplay
Cornell Woolrich's ( William Irish's ) novel was not among his best . The movie highlights its problem : unlike " I married a dead man " or " the bride wore black " there isn't one single really endearing character in it . Jacques Tourneur , a great horror movies director ( " cat people " ) is to be commended for almos...
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6
a corny title for an unfinished film
Rather than serving a prison sentence , a bunch of delinquent teenagers is offered to work for one month in the country in a small village with their instructor ( Roschdy Zem ) . As they come from high-risk suburbs and they aren't prepared for this exhausting life , this obligatory stay will prove to be grueling for th...
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6
Pleasant B movie .
This island earth " Tarentula " and this film are nice B movies by Jack Arnold . " The incredible shrinking man " , on the other hand , is a genuine masterpiece , thanks essentially to Richard Matheson's book which he adapted himself for the screen . A big difference . But do not deny ourselves a good thing . " Creat...
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6
break up the family . . .
Since the critical and commercial success of " Rushmore " ( 1998 ) , Wes Anderson became a promising and talented director . He's even nicknamed " Hollywood's new prodigy " . So three years after " Rushmore " , he released a new movie : " The Royal Tenenbaums " ( 2001 ) . This movie's got a whacky script ( the Tenenbau...
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6
Arletty's very last part . . .
. . . before she became almost blind and gave up acting . And she had not played opposite to Fernandel since " Fric Frac " ( 1939 ) . " Le Voyage à Biarritz " is not a great swansong for an actress who was featured in the all-time masterpiece of the FRench cinema " Les Enfants du Paradis " ! But it is pleasant entertai...
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The French cops investigate . .
Maurice Tourneur , who was back in France in the early thirties , made an undistinguished work " Accusée Levez-Vous " which was pure filmed stage production style . But " Au Nom de La Loi " is a return to good directing , as far as cinema is concerned . The ending , when the traffickers are encircled in their flat whil...
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the UFO ( Unidentified Filming Object ) of 2004 ?
This work could be the strongest contender for this title . It's incredible that the Poiraud brothers were able to find a bucketful of producers to finance their hare-brained project . Maybe because they feared to see where all the millions of Euros had gone , they didn't want to see the finished product before it open...
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Only angels have wings .
Released the same year as " Flesh " , this is much more " fordian " than the movie starring Wallace Beery . " Airmail contains the seeds of a lot of things which will be developed by the director afterward : manly friendship , sense of duty , struggle against the elements . And most of all , the fact that any man can r...
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6
Louis the thirteenth as a teenager !
Not the way the French pupils and students remember him . He was not a jolly fellow . When he died , soon after le Cardinal de Richelieu , both were not mourned . But " le Capitan " takes place during the king's youth , when Concini was ruling the country on behalf of the queen mother Anne d'Autriche , and when Richeli...
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The second song of Bernadette .
Critically speaking , this new version of Bernadette Soubirous ' s life was greeted with a poor reception in its native France . Coming just after critically-acclaimed Alain Cavalier's " Therese " ( de Lisieux ) , the movie got unanimous thumb downs . And yet what can you expect from Jean Delannoy , Jean Luc Godard's f...
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The soldier has come home .
A good adaptation of the Balzac novel . Raimu - who forgets for a while his Provençal accent - was not exactly the character but the last sequence in the old people home where he meets again the Grognards , the campaigners of Napoleon's army is one of his finest signatures . In several respects , this is a political st...
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Nothing frightens me more than religion at my door . ( John Cale )
Nino Manfredi was an actor who made interesting flicks : " pane e cioccolate " is probably the most memorable . " Per grazia ricevuta " might be less palatable for a mainstream audience . Actually , it will mainly appeal to people who were brought up catholics ( and changed totally afterward ) . The precedent user wrot...
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Last stadium / Last stage .
In French , " dernier stade " has two meanings : last stadium and last stage . The title of the movie is entirely adequate . Although it tackles a taboo subject , this movie held neither the critics ' nor the audience's attention . Okay it is made-for-TV quality , it should appeal to people interested in the world of s...
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The beast in the nature .
What I have to say is merely a repetition of what the other users said before : the two leads literally save the movie from absolute mediocrity . They are so good , their performances are so intense that they are to be commended for transcending the limitations they are working under . The script writers , in order to ...
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The omega man will not be legend .
I saw the movie when it was theatrically released and I enjoyed it very much . Since , I read Matheson's novel , I saw the first version " last man on earth " and , when I saw it again recently , I was not as much thrilled as I had been then . On the plus side , Heston is a solid actor whose talent is obvious , the des...
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searching for lost keys . . .
Les Clefs De Bagnole , a film which got a majority of thumbs down from both the French critics and public . Many viewers took the little catchy sentence at the time the film opened in December 2003 very seriously : " Don't go and watch it , it's rubbish " . But in a way , by choosing such words , the director-actor L...
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They are not angels / Terre de France .
This movie was divided into two parts when it was theatrically released . The running time of the English version is shorter than the original one . Part 1 : " They are not angels " depicts the training of the French paratroopers in England before the D Day . We make acquaintance with a dozen of them , soldiers and off...
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No miracle worker
The follow-up to " Manèges " , " Les Miracles N'Ont Lieu Qu'une fois " depicts true love whereas the former was all cupidity , nastiness and cheat . The screenplays bears more than a distant resemblance with " Paradis Perdu " ( 1939 ) by Abel Gance , at least in its first third . Alida Valli and Jean Marais , both very...
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The soft side of May 1968 .
This little movie owes a lot to his main stars , Marina Vlady and Frederic de Pasquale . This is the simple story of a laborer working overtime to give his wife a comfortable life , but who does not understand she's frustrated . While snatches of turmoil are heard on the radio , their couple runs into difficulties when...
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mafia blues
If one analyzes the basic topic of this slick comedy , one realizes that it had a certain potential to charm Hollywood producers and to score well at the American box-office . Take a powerful but neurotic , bilious gangster named Paul Vitti ( Robert De Niro ) who suffers from crises of anxiety and make him nag at a pea...
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I'm not for and I'm not against Cédric Klapisch's first try at film noir
The golden age of the film noir in French cinema was in the forties and fifties with two unforgettable names : Julien Duvivier and Henri-Georges Clouzot who have left films noir of first quality . Then , the high level persisted with Claude Chabrol in the late sixties . But nowadays , this cinematographic genre survive...
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Unfairly overlooked .
Serge Leroy has never been a great director but this one is arguably his best . A group of notables go hunting in the woods . A young girl ( Mimsy Farmer , who was the star of " More " ) , becomes their victim . " La traque " ( tracking ) is not a misnomer cause the girl is tracked down all along the movie which includ...
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Sam Karmann's 2003 vintage as a director
Basically a stage actor and a close friend of the winning team Jean Pierre Bacri and Agnès Jaoui , Sam Karmann belatedly tried his hand at directing but the few works he left shouldn't be dismissed at all . " Kennedy et Moi " ( 1999 ) was the French " American Beauty " and an ideal cure for its director who had a break...