France’s top Seventies action star Jean-Paul Belmondo gives an engaging turn as Commissaire Jean Letellier, a cop on the trail of an infamous gangster, bank robbers and a phone-call serial killer of young women, in director […]
Breathless stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg are reunited for director Jean Becker’s solid 1964 action crime-comedy Backfire [Echappement Libre]. Belmondo plays David Ladislas, a small-time Parisian crook who tries to smuggle a car to […]
Producer-director Leigh Jason’s 1941 American film Model Wife stars Joan Blondell and Dick Powell in a likeable, hard-working comedy about a young couple, Joan and Fred Chambers (Blondell and Powell), who have to keep their […]
Director Philippe de Broca’s 1962 French swashbuckler film Cartouche [Swords of Blood] stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Claudia Cardinale. France’s legendary 18th-century thief-hero Cartouche is a lovely role for grinning young and dashing Belmondo, whose infectious, […]
Director Philippe de Broca’s 1964 French James Bond-type spoof film That Man from Rio [L’Homme de Rio] stars Jean-Paul Belmondo, Françoise Dorléac, Jean Servais and Adolfo Celi. That Man from Rio is a lively, fast-moving […]
The films of Alfred Hitchcock ‘Content, I am not interested in that at all. I don’t give a damn what the film is about. I am more interested in how to handle the material so […]
Director Alan Rudolph’s 1988 film The Moderns is an offbeat, civilised, romantic movie about Americans in 1920s Paris, with a miscast Keith Carradine out of his depth as art faker Nick Hart, an ex-patriate American […]
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