Derek Winnert

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Being 17 [Quand on a 17 ans] **** (2016, Sandrine Kiberlain, Kacey Mottet Klein, Corentin Fila, Alexis Loret) – Classic Movie Review 12,732

André Téchiné’s 2016 French romantic drama Being 17 is a complex, emotional and mature film, with the focus on two teenage boys (Kacey Mottet Klein, Corentin Fila) and their story, but Sandrine Kiberlain deservedly gets […]

Nov, 29 · in Reviews

Reinventing Marvin [Marvin ou la belle education] *** (2017, Finnegan Oldfield, Jules Porier, Grégory Gadebois, Vincent Macaigne, Catherine Salée, Catherine Mouchet, Charles Berling, Isabelle Huppert) – Classic Movie Review 12,731

Anne Fontaine’s 2017 French drama film Reinventing Marvin [Marvin ou la belle education] stars the then rising French star Finnegan Oldfield as Marvin, a gay actor in Paris struggling to write and perform a theatre […]

Nov, 28 · in Reviews

The Bank Raiders ** (1958, Peter Reynolds, Sandra Dorne, Sydney Tafler, Lloyd Lamble) – Classic Movie Review 12,730

The serviceable and efficient 1958 British support crime thriller film The Bank Raiders focuses on Terry (Peter Reynolds), a petty criminal who signs up as getaway driver with a gang boss (Sydney Tafler)’s band of […]

Nov, 28

Presque Rien [Almost Nothing] [Come Undone] *** (2000, Jérémie Elkaïm, Stéphane Rideau, Marie Matheron) – Classic Movie Review 12,729

The convincing and moving 2000 French romantic drama film Presque Rien [Almost Nothing] [Come Undone] stars Jérémie Elkaïm and Stéphane Rideau in a story of a stormy holiday romance between two 18-year-old young men. Director […]

Nov, 28

Easy Tiger *** (2022, Evgenia Brendes, Giada Castioni, Mickaël Pelissier) – Classic Movie Review 12,728

A psychologist experiences an unexpected moment at the end of a session with a male client and grapples to understand his overwhelming desire for him, in the 2022 art film Easy Tiger. ‘An intimate portrait […]

Nov, 27

La Maman et La Putain [The Mother and the Whore] **** (1973, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Bernadette Lafont, Françoise Lebrun) – Classic Movie Review 12,728

Director Jean Eustache’s 1973 French love triangle film La Maman et La Putain [The Mother and the Whore] is the last brilliant flowering of the 1960s French New Wave (Nouvelle Vague), an intriguing curio of […]

Nov, 26

Love Blooms [L’amour debout] *** (2019, Paul Delbreil, Adèle Csech, Samuel Fasse) – Classic Movie Review 12,727

Paul Delbreil stars in the 2019 French film Love Blooms [L’amour debout] as would-be film-maker Martin, who comes to meet his tour guide girlfriend Léa (Adèle Csech) in Paris but she suddenly breaks up with […]

Nov, 26

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