Derek Winnert

Original Sin *** (2001, Antonio Banderas, Angelina Jolie, Thomas Jane, Jack Thompson) – Classic Movie Review 3025

‘This is not a love story but a story about love.’ Antonio Banderas stars as a Cuban businessman who is completely happy when he takes Angelina Jolie as his mail-order-bride wife. But, soon, it turns […]

Nov, 01 · in Uncategorized

Mississippi Mermaid [La Sirène du Mississippi] **** (1969, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Bouquet) – Classic Movie Review 3,024

Ah, yes, love leads to an uncertain future when you lie, cheat, rob and murder. François Truffaut turns a Cornell Woolrich novel into the moody and engaging 1969 film noir Mississippi Mermaid with the right […]

Nov, 01 · in Reviews

L’Amour a Vingt Ans [Love at 20] **** (1962, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Patrick Auffay) – Classic Movie Review 3020

Five directors from around the world present their different perspectives on what love is like at the age of 20 in a 1962 omnibus anthology of separate episodes united by their theme, the score of Georges […]

Oct, 31

Les Mistons [The Mischief-Makers] *** (1957, Gérard Blain, Bernadette Lafont, Michel François) – Classic Movie Review 3019

François Truffaut’s charming and revealing 1957 nostalgic short is his first professional film. Financed by his film distributor wife Madeleine Morgenstern and filmed on location in Nimes with five local boys as the Mistons (Mischief-Makers), […]

Oct, 31

L’Argent de Poche [Small Change] **** (1976, Georges Desmouceaux, Philippe Goldmann, Nicole Félix) – Classic Movie Review 3018

Director François Truffaut’s 1976 hymn to the joys of youth is a series of charming anecdotes about a group of provincial French schoolboys, their teachers and parents in the town of Thiers in the summer of […]

Oct, 30

L’homme qui aimait les femmes [The Man Who Loved Women] **** (1977, Charles Denner, Brigitte Fossey, Leslie Caron, Nelly Borgeaud, Nathalie Baye) – Classic Movie Review 3017

Director François Truffaut’s incisive and entertaining 1977 romantic comedy L’homme qui aimait les femmes [The Man Who Loved Women] boasts a subtle and touching central performance by Charles Denner as Bertrand Morane, the obsessed Frenchman […]

Oct, 30

L’Enfant Sauvage [The Wild Child] ***** (1969, François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Cargol) – Classic Movie Review 3016

Director François Truffaut’s 1969 masterwork is a superbly handled, brilliantly evocative re-creation of the 1790s true-life story of Doctor Jean Itard, the behavioural scientist who tames and teaches Victor de l’Aveyron (Jean-Pierre Cargol), a feral boy […]

Oct, 29

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