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584,310 | 1,219,578 | 68,176 | 6 | 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... |
582,444 | 1,219,578 | 160,513 | 6 | 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... |
584,816 | 1,219,578 | 66,251 | 6 | 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... |
582,575 | 1,219,578 | 26,193 | 6 | 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... |
583,474 | 1,219,578 | 103,168 | 6 | 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 ... |
583,116 | 1,219,578 | 128,445 | 6 | 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... |
583,694 | 1,219,578 | 68,521 | 6 | 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 ... |
583,773 | 1,219,578 | 120,815 | 6 | 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... |
583,526 | 1,219,578 | 39,310 | 6 | 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 ... |
582,768 | 1,219,578 | 310,203 | 6 | 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... |
583,564 | 1,219,578 | 110,931 | 6 | 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 ... |
585,028 | 1,219,578 | 195,369 | 6 | 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 ... |
584,515 | 1,219,578 | 48,006 | 6 | 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 . -... |
584,906 | 1,219,578 | 340,086 | 6 | 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... |
585,008 | 1,219,578 | 59,103 | 6 | . . . 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... |
584,071 | 1,219,578 | 83,863 | 6 | 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... |
582,987 | 1,219,578 | 79,980 | 6 | 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 )... |
582,675 | 1,219,578 | 120,655 | 6 | 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... |
582,979 | 1,219,578 | 206,210 | 6 | 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... |
583,143 | 1,219,578 | 61,075 | 6 | 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... |
584,586 | 1,219,578 | 407,251 | 6 | 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... |
582,401 | 1,219,578 | 39,294 | 6 | 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 ... |
584,031 | 1,219,578 | 14,898 | 6 | 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 ) ... |
584,226 | 1,219,578 | 375,114 | 6 | 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... |
582,795 | 1,219,578 | 120,639 | 6 | 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 " ... |
582,464 | 1,219,578 | 67,727 | 6 | 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... |
585,268 | 1,219,578 | 27,658 | 6 | 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... |
582,801 | 1,219,578 | 150,079 | 6 | 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... |
582,441 | 1,219,578 | 309,377 | 6 | 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... |
582,692 | 1,219,578 | 43,409 | 6 | 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 ( "... |
582,634 | 1,219,578 | 51,110 | 6 | 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... |
583,549 | 1,219,578 | 89,360 | 6 | 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... |
584,875 | 1,219,578 | 72,131 | 6 | 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... |
582,437 | 1,219,578 | 107,497 | 6 | 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 ... |
584,747 | 1,219,578 | 35,636 | 6 | 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... |
583,676 | 1,219,578 | 64,679 | 6 | 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... |
582,620 | 1,219,578 | 239,507 | 6 | 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... |
583,091 | 1,219,578 | 39,486 | 6 | 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... |
583,309 | 1,219,578 | 29,972 | 6 | 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... |
584,812 | 1,219,578 | 67,632 | 6 | 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... |
584,026 | 1,219,578 | 82,971 | 6 | 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... |
585,585 | 1,219,578 | 58,692 | 6 | 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 ... |
583,351 | 1,219,578 | 82,992 | 6 | 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... |
584,111 | 1,219,578 | 70,109 | 6 | 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... |
583,020 | 1,219,578 | 76,313 | 6 | 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... |
584,376 | 1,219,578 | 35,515 | 6 | 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 ... |
584,271 | 1,219,578 | 154,175 | 6 | 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... |
583,289 | 1,219,578 | 194,911 | 6 | 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... |
584,272 | 1,219,578 | 64,816 | 6 | 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... |
583,786 | 1,219,578 | 76,759 | 6 | 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 ... |
583,829 | 1,219,578 | 136,798 | 6 | 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... |
582,694 | 1,219,578 | 386,751 | 6 | 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... |
584,890 | 1,219,578 | 55,182 | 6 | 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 ... |
585,191 | 1,219,578 | 74,559 | 6 | 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... |
584,459 | 1,219,578 | 325,030 | 6 | 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... |
583,124 | 1,219,578 | 55,219 | 6 | 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... |
584,128 | 1,219,578 | 65,916 | 6 | 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 ... |
583,352 | 1,219,578 | 113,497 | 6 | 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'... |
582,668 | 1,219,578 | 162,038 | 6 | 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... |
584,277 | 1,219,578 | 94,082 | 6 | 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... |
584,608 | 1,219,578 | 29,802 | 6 | 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... |
585,589 | 1,219,578 | 67,949 | 6 | 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 . ... |
582,761 | 1,219,578 | 161,721 | 6 | 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 ... |
585,175 | 1,219,578 | 53,428 | 6 | 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... |
583,622 | 1,219,578 | 102,368 | 6 | 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... |
584,873 | 1,219,578 | 79,106 | 6 | 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 ... |
585,415 | 1,219,578 | 31,600 | 6 | 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... |
582,510 | 1,219,578 | 62,204 | 6 | 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... |
585,080 | 1,219,578 | 55,422 | 6 | 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... |
585,069 | 1,219,578 | 60,164 | 6 | 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... |
585,059 | 1,219,578 | 53,290 | 6 | 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 ... |
583,840 | 1,219,578 | 104,144 | 6 | 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 . ... |
584,072 | 1,219,578 | 69,219 | 6 | 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 .... |
583,707 | 1,219,578 | 133,152 | 6 | 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... |
585,334 | 1,219,578 | 356,618 | 6 | 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... |
585,425 | 1,219,578 | 61,955 | 6 | 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... |
583,189 | 1,219,578 | 51,658 | 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... |
585,058 | 1,219,578 | 36,104 | 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... |
584,606 | 1,219,578 | 428,293 | 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... |
584,568 | 1,219,578 | 46,876 | 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... |
582,843 | 1,219,578 | 265,666 | 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... |
584,448 | 1,219,578 | 185,752 | 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... |
583,288 | 1,219,578 | 22,645 | 6 | 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... |
585,118 | 1,219,578 | 362,084 | 6 | 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... |
582,549 | 1,219,578 | 22,615 | 6 | 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... |
584,276 | 1,219,578 | 53,696 | 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... |
583,062 | 1,219,578 | 92,639 | 6 | 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... |
583,943 | 1,219,578 | 164,006 | 6 | 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... |
583,753 | 1,219,578 | 67,565 | 6 | 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... |
585,076 | 1,219,578 | 109,600 | 6 | 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... |
583,480 | 1,219,578 | 113,939 | 6 | 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 ... |
584,075 | 1,219,578 | 67,525 | 6 | 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... |
585,374 | 1,219,578 | 383,995 | 6 | 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... |
582,438 | 1,219,578 | 38,335 | 6 | 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... |
585,531 | 1,219,578 | 42,737 | 6 | 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... |
583,700 | 1,219,578 | 218,657 | 6 | 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... |
585,167 | 1,219,578 | 122,933 | 6 | 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... |
585,580 | 1,219,578 | 298,082 | 6 | 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... |
584,519 | 1,219,578 | 73,815 | 7 | 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... |
583,078 | 1,219,578 | 327,259 | 7 | 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... |
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