Derek Winnert

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The Army of Shadows [L’Armée des Ombres] ***** (1969, Lino Ventura, Simone Signoret, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Paul Meurisse) – Classic Movie Review 3799

Writer-producer-director Jean-Pierre Melville pays tribute to the French Resistance he worked for in World War Two with this extremely engrossing, powerful and challenging 1969 epic account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France, set in 1942. Lino […]

Jun, 04

The Measure of a Man [La loi du marché ] **** (2015, Vincent Lindon, Karine de Mirbeck, Matthieu Schaller) – Movie Review

The Measure of a Man [La loi du marché ] is a marvellous movie, a perfect study of a good, decent man laid low by circumstance, abused by almost everyone he meets. It’s hard to […]

Jun, 03

The Adventures of Quentin Durward **** (1955, Robert Taylor, Kay Kendall, Robert Morley, Ernest Thesiger, Alec Clunes, Marius Goring, Wilfrid Hyde White, George Cole) – Classic Movie Review 3655

Director Richard Thorpe 1955 British movie is a spirited, pacy, good-looking 15th-century action caper, in which Robert Taylor swashes a spirited buckle as Sir Walter Scott’s noble hero, Scottish knight Quentin Durward. Sent to France to […]

May, 03

J’Embrasse Pas [I Don’t Kiss] *** (1991, Manuel Blanc, Philippe Noiret, Emmanuelle Béart, Hélène Vincent, Jean-Christophe Bouvet) – Classic Movie Review 3634

Manuel Blanc stars as Pierre Lacaze, a sensitive French provincial young lad who leaves his stifling family to start a new life in Paris, hoping to become an actor. But instead he finds homelessness, poverty […]

Apr, 30

Bastille Day **½ (2016, Idris Elba, Richard Madden, Kelly Reilly) – Movie Review

Idris Elba stars as a loose-cannon CIA agent who races through Paris to arrest an American pickpocket and forces him to join his anti-terrorist mission to foil an evil bomb plot. The pickpocket (Richard Madden) is a […]

Apr, 21

Dheepan **** (2015, Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby, Vincent Rottiers) – Movie Review

The startling 2015 feature film Dheepan from Jacques Audiard, the maker of A Prophet and Rust and Bone, is quite an eye-opener and an emotional ride, as well as a real impressive piece of film-making, winning the […]

Apr, 11

Valmont ***** (1989, Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly, Fairuza Balk, Jeffrey Jones, Henry Thomas, Sian Phillips, Fabia Drake) – Classic Movie Review 3522

  Director Milos Forman’s seductive 1989 romantic drama film Valmont stars Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly and Fairuza Balk, along with Sian Phillips, Jeffrey Jones, Henry Thomas, Fabia Drake, Ian MacNeice and Isla Blair. It […]

Apr, 04

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