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Posts Tagged "Paris"

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Peppermint Soda [Diabolo Menthe] *** (1977, Eléonore Klarwein, Odile Michel) – Classic Movie Review 11,804

Writer-director Diane Kurys’s French 1977 drama Peppermint Soda [Diabolo Menthe] stars Eléonore Klarwein and Odile Michel, and won the Prix Louis-Delluc. This autobiographical tale from début director Kurys follows one year in the lives of two […]

Dec, 19

L’Accompagnatrice [The Accompanist] *** (1992, Romane Bohringer, Elena Safonova, Richard Bohringer, Samuel Labarthe) – Classic Movie Review 11,770

Director Claude Miller’s French 1992 drama L’Accompagnatrice [The Accompanist] is an intriguing, ambitious and often involving though somehow elusive World War Two wartime drama about the poor young piano accompanist of the title, Sophie Vasseur […]

Dec, 06

Take Her, She’s Mine ** (1963, James Stewart, Sandra Dee) – Classic Movie Review 11,729

James Stewart is the main asset of the 1963 comical movie Take Her, She’s Mine. Director Henry Koster’s 1963 20th Century Fox American comedy film Take Her, She’s Mine is based on the 1961 Broadway […]

Nov, 17

Cartouche [Swords of Blood] *** (1962, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claudia Cardinale) – Classic Movie Review 11,558

Director Philippe de Broca’s 1962 French swashbuckler film Cartouche [Swords of Blood] stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Claudia Cardinale. France’s legendary 18th-century thief-hero Cartouche is a lovely role for grinning young and dashing Belmondo, whose infectious, […]

Sep, 07

The Moderns *** (1988, Keith Carradine, Linda Fiorentino, John Lone, Geneviève Bujold, Geraldine Chaplin) – Classic Movie Review 11,556

Director Alan Rudolph’s 1988 film The Moderns is an offbeat, civilised, romantic movie about Americans in 1920s Paris, with a miscast Keith Carradine out of his depth as art faker Nick Hart, an ex-patriate American […]

Sep, 06

Paris Nous Appartient [Paris Belongs to Us] *** (1961, Betty Schneider, Giani Esposito, Françoise Prévost) – Classic Movie Review 11,130

French New Wave cinema giant Jacques Rivette’s 1961 first film Paris Nous Appartient [Paris Belongs to Us] concerns the young and artistic elite who stay in deserted Paris in August, and particularly Terry Yordan (Françoise […]

Apr, 23

The Art of Love *** (1965, James Garner, Dick Van Dyke, Angie Dickinson, Elke Sommer, Ethel Merman, Carl Reiner) – Classic Movie Review 10,590

‘Two nimble American rascals turn Paris on its ear!!!’ Screen-writer Carl Reiner’s inventive 1965 Paris-set black comedy The Art of Love about a broke American artist called Paul Sloane (Dick Van Dyke) who fakes suicide […]

Nov, 27

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