Derek Winnert

Le Petit Soldat *** (1963, Anna Karina, Michel Subor, Henri-Jacques Huet) – Classic Movie Review 6070

Writer-director Jean-Luc Godard’s second film in terms of shooting follows his spectacular debut with Breathless (1960). It stars Michel Subor as Bruno Forestier, a young French terrorist who is turned over to the Geneva police […]

Oct, 10 · in Uncategorized

Wild Target [Cible émouvante] **** (1993, Jean Rochefort, Guillaume Depardieu, Marie Trintignant) – Classic Movie Review 6069

Jean Rochefort has a whale of a time as a 55-year-old expert hitman called Victor Meynard, who encounters an inept young crook named Antoine (Guillaume Depardieu) on a kill and decides to train him as […]

Oct, 10 · in Uncategorized

Tout Va Bien **** [All’s Well] (1972, Yves Montand, Jane Fonda, Vittorio Caprioli) – Classic Movie Review 6068

Jane Fonda (as Her, Suzanne) and Yves Montand (as Him, Jacques) play a reporter and an ad-director couple in Paris, who reappraise their revolutionary views during the course of a factory-workers’ strike. Writer-directors Jean-Luc Godard […]

Oct, 09

Les Carabiniers *** (1963, Albert Juross, Patrice Moullet, Marino Masé, Geneviève Galéa, Barbet Schroeder, Catherine Ribero) – Classic Movie Review 6067

French New Wave luminary director Jean-Luc Godard is on middling form here in this lively and provocative 1963 French drama about youngsters involved in an unnecessary civil war in an imaginary country. It is a […]

Oct, 09

Une Femme est une Femme [A Woman Is a Woman] **** (1961, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy) – Classic Movie Review 6066

Jean-Paul Belmondo was reunited with Jean-Luc Godard for Une Femme est une Femme [A Woman Is a Woman] (1961) after the lead role in Breathless [À bout de souffle] (1960) made him a major star of […]

Oct, 09

Vivre Sa Vie [My Life to Live] **** (1962, Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, André S Labarthe, Monique Messine, Henri Attal, Gérard Hoffman) – Classic Movie Review 6065

In 1962 Jean-Luc Godard shot Vivre Sa Vie [My Life to Live] (1962) over four weeks in Paris for $40,000, and it became his first commercial success since À bout de souffle [Breathless] (1960), ending up […]

Oct, 09

Two or Three Things I Know About Her… [2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle] *** (1967, Marina Vlady, Anny Duperey, Roger Montsoret) – Classic Movie Review 6064

Writer-director Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 French movie is typical mid-period Godard, not from his top drawer and already just past his glorious prime. Marina Vlady stars as a married Paris suburban wife Juliette, living with her […]

Oct, 09

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