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Posts Tagged "French New Wave"

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Une Belle Fille Comme Moi [Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me] ** (1972, Bernadette Lafont, André Dussollier, Claude Brasseur, Charles Denner, Guy Marchand, Philippe Lèotard, Anne Kreis) – Classic Movie Review 3013

Co-writer/director François Truffaut’s 12th film from 1972 is a comfortable and familiar-feeling black comedy but it is not at all compelling or distinguished. It stars Bernadette Lafont, the lead of his very first film, Les Mistons, […]

Oct, 28

Last Year at Marienbad [L’année dernière à Marienbad] **** (1961, Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff) – Classic Movie Review 2631

Director Alain Resnais’s infamous, impenetrable 1961 mystery movie has the coolly gorgeous and impressively enigmatic Delphine Seyrig wandering about elegantly in a huge, old-fashioned luxury hotel. Last Year at Marienbad is all way too arty and […]

Jun, 22

Love on the Run [L’Amour en Fuite] ***½ (1979, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Marie-France Pisier, Dani, Dorothée) – Classic Movie Review 2590

Co-writer/director François Truffaut puts his alter ego film-self Antoine Doinel in the spotlight again in 1979 for the fifth and final time, as Jean-Pierre Léaud re-creates his most famous role in this amiable sequel movie. […]

Jun, 13

Lift to the Scaffold [Ascenseur pour l’échafaud] ***** (1958, Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Lino Ventura) – Classic Movie Review 544

Director Louis Malle’s 1958 debut feature Ascenseur pour l’échafaud [Lift to the Scaffold] [Elevator to the Gallows] is a brilliant, haunting and complex film noir thriller. It made an international star of the 30-year-old Jeanne […]

Dec, 18

Shoot the Pianist [Tirez sur le Pianist] **** (1960, Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, Michèle Mercier, Albert Rémy, Serge Davri, Claude Mansard, Daniel Boulanger) – Classic Movie Review 93

François Truffaut turns David Goodis’s thriller novel Down There into an exuberant, quirky, stylish personal take on the Hollywood B-movie thriller for his second feature, the 1960 film Tirez sur le Pianist [Shoot the Pianist].  […]

Jul, 26

Les Quatre Cents Coups [The 400 Blows] ***** (1959, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy, Claire Maurier) – Classic Movie Review 61

‘I had a fairly painful memory of my adolescence which contrasted with the regrets that others generally have for their youth. I wanted to express this feeling that adolescence is a bad moment to get […]

Jul, 18

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