Derek Winnert

Une Femme Mariée [A Married Woman] **** (1964, Macha Méril, Bernard Noël, Philippe Leroy) – Classic Movie Review 4200

Writer-director Jean-Luc Godard amusingly explores the effects of the media on women’s lives in his involving and erotic depiction of cool married woman Charlotte (Macha Méril)’s love affair with an actor, Robert (Bernard Noël), though […]

Aug, 19 · in Uncategorized

La Femme Infidèle [The Unfaithful Wife] ***** (1968, Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Maurice Ronet) – Classic Movie Review 4199

Writer-director Claude Chabrol is on peak form in the wonderful 1968 French psycho-sexual murder thriller La Femme Infidèle [The Unfaithful Wife]. And so is his then wife Stéphane Audran as Hélène Desvallées, the smart, unfaithful […]

Aug, 19 · in Reviews

Our Mother’s House **** (1967, Dirk Bogarde, Yootha Joyce, Margaret Brooks, Mark Lester, Pamela Franklin, Yootha Joyce, Anthony Nicholls, Phoebe Nicholls) – Classic Movie Review 4198

The 1967 British thriller drama film Our Mother’s House about seven children who hide the death of their deeply religious mother by burying her body in the garden of their dilapidated suburban Victorian home is […]

Aug, 19

Bad Moms **½ (2016, Mila Kunis, Kathryn Hahn, Kristen Bell) – Movie Review

The lack of press screenings started up bad word on writer-directors Jon Lucas and Scott Moore’s raucous 2016 girls’ comedy but the good news is Bad Moms isn’t bad. The first three quarters delivers a surprisingly high score […]

Aug, 19

Le Boucher [The Butcher] ***** (1970, Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia) – Classic Movie Review 4197

Writer-director Claude Chabrol’s tantalizing, mesmerizing 1970 French thriller Le Boucher [The Butcher] is absolutely superb, a miniaturist masterpiece of tension, atmosphere and character. Chabrol’s then wife Stéphane Audran stars as a repressed French provincial small-town […]

Aug, 19

Le Bossu [On Guard] **** (1997, Daniel Auteuil, Vincent Perez, Fabrice Luchini, Philippe Noiret, Marie Gillain) – Classic Movie Review 4196

En garde, mesdames et messeurs, for co-writer/director Philippe de Broca’s exhilarating 1997 swashbuckling adventure, based on Paul Féval’s classic tale of passion and revenge in 18th-century France. Daniel Auteuil gives a most spirited turn as Henri […]

Aug, 19

The In-Laws **** (1979, Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Richard Libertini) – Classic Movie Review 4195

Super-talented players Peter Falk and Alan Arkin put the spark in producer-director Arthur Hiller’s huge fun 1979 offbeat buddy comedy, deliciously written by Andrew Bergman, full of quirky, zany and unexpected humour. Arkin plays dentist […]

Aug, 18

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