Derek Winnert

A Winter’s Tale [A Tale of Winter] [Conte d’hiver] **** (1992, Charlotte Véry, Frédéric van den Driessche, Michel Voletti, Hervé Furic) – Classic Movie Review 9463

Writer-director Eric Rohmer’s 1992 A Winter’s Tale [A Tale of Winter] [Conte d’hiver] is his beguiling Tale of the Four Seasons about a pretty young hairdresser called Félicie (Charlotte Véry), who has a holiday romance […]

Mar, 05 · in News,Reviews

Autumn Tale [Conte d’automne] **** (1998, Marie Rivière, Béatrice Romand, Alain Libolt, Didier Sandre) – Classic Movie Review 9462

Autumn Tale [Conte d’automne] (1998) is the last of Éric Rohmer’s four seasonal tales, preceded by A Tale of Springtime, A Tale of Winter and A Summer’s Tale. It is the fourth film of his […]

Mar, 04 · in Reviews

Full Moon in Paris [Les Nuits de la Pleine Lune] **** (1984, Pascale Ogier, Tchéky Karyo, Fabrice Luchini) – Classic Movie Review 9461

Full Moon in Paris [Les Nuits de la Pleine Lune] (1984) is another charmer from Eric Rohmer, with the delightful Pascale Ogier as one of the director’s typically complex, determined and willful heroines Louise, who […]

Mar, 04

The Aviator’s Wife [La femme de l’aviateur] **** (1981, Philippe Marlaud, Marie Rivière, Anne-Laure Meury, Mathieu Carrière) – Classic Movie Review 9460

The Aviator’s Wife [La Femme de l’Aviateur] (1981) is an excellent conversation piece from Eric Rohmer (the opening one of his Comédies et Proverbes series) about a young Frenchman François (Philippe Marlaud) and the eponymous […]

Mar, 04

Le beau mariage [A Good Marriage] **** (1982, Béatrice Romand, André Dussollier, Féodor Atkine) – Classic Movie Review 9459

Writer-director Eric Rohmer’s highly stylish and diverting Comedy and Proverb character study, ideas picture and talk scenario centres on a French 1920s art student (Béatrice Romand), Sabine, who looks for an ideal love, or, in […]

Mar, 04

Manèges **** (1950, Bernard Blier, Simone Signoret, Jacques Baumer) – Classic Movie Review 9458

Director Yves Allégret’s 1950 French film Manèges [The Wanton] [The Cheat] is an engaging noir-style melodrama thanks to the film’s clever structure, controlled handling by Allégret, and the charismatic star performances of Simone Signoret and […]

Mar, 04

The Men of Sherwood Forest ** (1954) – Classic Movie Review 9457

Hammer Films cash in on the success of Disney’s 1952 The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952) – and why not ? – with Val Guest’s pleasant if very routine 1954 Eastmancolor […]

Mar, 03

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