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Life Is a Long Quiet River [La Vie Est Un Long Fleuve Tranquille] **** (1988, Benoît Magimel, Hélène Vincent, Valérie Lalande, Tara Römer) – Classic Movie Review 8723

Co-writer/ director Etienne Chatiliez’s 1988 first film Life Is a Long Quiet River [La Vie Est Un Long Fleuve Tranquille] is a jovial French farce in which two French families from different social classes, one […]

Jul, 17 · in Reviews

Tatie Danielle [Auntie Danielle] ***** (1990, Tsilla Chelton, Catherine Jacob, Isabelle Nanty) – Classic Movie Review 8722

Director Etienne Chatiliez’s 1990 French gem Tatie Danielle [Auntie Danielle] stars Tsilla Chelton, who is magnificently awful as the rich old, recently widowed grandma, whose only pleasure in life is tormenting her relatives and anyone […]

Jul, 17 · in Reviews

Three Colors: Red [Trois Couleurs: Rouge] ***** (1994, Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Frédérique Feder, Jean-Pierre Lorit) – Classic Movie Review 8721

Director Krzysztof Kieslowski saves the best for last in the highly impressive final part of his trilogy, the exquisitely subtle 1994 masterpiece Three Colors: Red [Trois Couleurs: Rouge]. It was nominated for three Oscars, including […]

Jul, 16

Three Colors: White [Trois Couleurs: Blanc] **** (1994, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Janusz Gajos, Jerzy Stuhr, Jerzy Trela) – Classic Movie Review 8720

Three Colors: White [Trois Couleurs: Blanc] (1994), the second part of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s trilogy (after the 1993 Three Colours: Blue) is billed as ‘A Comedy’, but there is no impression anywhere in the movie of […]

Jul, 16

Three Colors: Blue [Trois Couleurs: Bleu] **** (1993, Juliette Binoche, Benoît Régent, Florence Pernel, Charlotte Véry, Hélene Vincent) – Classic Movie Review 8719

The 1993 joint Venice Film Festival Golden Lion winner Three Colors: Blue [Trois Couleurs: Bleu] (tied with Robert Altman’s Short Cuts) is the fascinatingly themed opener of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s trilogy on liberty, equality and fraternity. […]

Jul, 16

The Double Life of Véronique [La Double Vie de Véronique] **** (1991, Irène Jacob, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Halina Gryglaszewska) – Classic Movie Review 8718

Director Krzysztof Kieslowski’s 1991 drama The Double Life of Véronique [La Double Vie de Véronique] is a beautifully played, compassionately told, intriguingly written tale of two identical women – one French, the other Polish – […]

Jul, 16

Second Chance *** (1953, Robert Mitchum, Jack Palance, Linda Darnell) – Classic Movie Review 8717

‘For the First Time –3D With Important Stars!’ Director Rudolph Maté’s 1953 3D Technicolor crime thriller Second Chance stars Robert Mitchum as troubled, hard-drinking prizefighter Russ Lambert, who falls for gangster’s moll Clare Sinclair (Linda […]

Jul, 16

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