Derek Winnert

Merci la Vie * (1991, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anouk Grinberg, Michel Blanc, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Gérard Depardieu) – Classic Movie Review 9597

Writer-director Bernard Blier’s 1991 French film Merci la Vie stars an impressive line-up in Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anouk Grinberg, Gérard Depardieu, Michael Blanc, Annie Girardot, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Carmet, Catherine Jacob and Thierry Frémont. But, despite […]

Apr, 05 · in Reviews

Mon Père, Ce Héros [My Father, The Hero] *** (1991, Gérard Depardieu, Marie Gillain, Catherine Jacob, Patrick Mille) – Classic Movie Review 9596

Writer-director Gérard Lauzier’s 1991 Mon Père, Ce Héros [My Father, The Hero] is a rather conventional, slightly dull French romantic comedy, but it is amusing enough and is much enlivened by Gérard Depardieu’s nimble performance […]

Apr, 04 · in Reviews

Any Number Can Win [Mélodie en sous-sol] **** (1963, Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Claude Cerval) – Classic Movie Review 9,595

The 1963 French crime thriller Any Number Can Win [Mélodie en sous-sol] stars Jean Gabin as old career criminal Mister Charles and Alain Delon as his young former cellmate Francis Verlot, who plan to rob […]

Apr, 04

The Girl on a Motorcycle *** (1968, Marianne Faithfull, Alain Delon, Roger Mutton) – Classic Movie Review 9,594

The 1968 erotic romantic drama film The Girl on a Motorcycle is a wonderfully schlocky Swinging Sixties piece. Marianne Faithfull stars as the married English woman who roars off on her bike to visit her […]

Apr, 04

The Hairdresser’s Husband [Le Mari de la Coiffeuse] ***** (1990, Jean Rochefort, Anna Galiena, Roland Bertin) – Classic Movie Review 9593

Co-writer/ director Patrice Leconte’s 1990 The Hairdresser’s Husband [Le Mari de la Coiffeuse] is a superb comedy-drama tale of male obsession, with a perfect role for the great Jean Rochefort as Antoine, who has loved […]

Apr, 04

Riding High ** (1950, Bing Crosby, Coleen Gray, Charles Bickford) – Classic Movie Review 9592

Frank Capra tepidly remakes his 1934 Broadway Bill as a vehicle for Bing Crosby in the 1950 comedy Riding High. Crosby is reasonably animated as the cheerful chappie Dan Brooks who is trying to raise […]

Apr, 03

Ridicule **** (1996, Charles Berling, Jean Rochefort, Fanny Ardant) – Classic Movie Review 9591

Director Patrice Leconte concocts an ingratiating and unusual French costume drama of sex, wit, intrigue and drainage at the court of King Louis XVI (Urbain Cancelier) in 1780, in his 1996 pleasure Ridicule. Charles Berling […]

Apr, 03

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