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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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