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Posts Tagged "Marseille"
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The Moon in the Gutter [La Lune dans le Caniveau] ** (1983, Gérard Depardieu, Nastassja Kinski, Victoria Abril) – Classic Movie Review 11,333
‘We’re born in the gutter… where the stars gleam in the water.’ Director Jean-Jacques Beineix’s 1983 French revenge-obssessed drama The Moon in the Gutter [La Lune dans le Caniveau] is based on a novel by […]
Topaze **** (1951, Fernandel, Hélène Perdrière, Marcel Vallée, Jacqueline Pagnol, Pierre Larquey) – Classic Movie Review 9520
Marcel Pagnol directs the 1951 French comedy film Topaze, remaking his own 1936 film Topaze, based on his 1928 play of the same name, again as Topaze, this time starring Fernandel and Hélène Perdrière. It […]
The Marseille Contract [The Destructors] *** (1974, Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn, James Mason, Maurice Ronet, Alexandra Stewart, Marcel Bozzuffi) – Classic Movie Review 8990
Director Robert Parrish’s 1974 movie The Marseille Contract [The Destructors] is a commonplace Seventies Euro-thriller yarn of US narcotics agent Steve Ventura (Anthony Quinn) hiring an English killer to bump off evil French crime and […]
César ***** (1936, Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis, Fernand Charpin, André Fouché, Alida Rouffé) – Classic Movie Review 6396
Marcel Pagnol wrote the third part of his marvellous Marius trilogy especially for the cinema, and this time he directs the film himself too. It follows Marius (1931) and Fanny (1932). It is slower, longer […]
Fanny ***** (1932, Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis, Fernand Charpin, Alida Rouffé) – Classic Movie Review 6394
Director Marc Allégret’s 1932 French classic is the middle episode in the marvellous Marcel Pagnol Marius trilogy, a highspot of world cinema, following the first film Marius (1931). Orane Demazis stars as the abandoned pregnant […]
A Scandal in Paris **** (1946, George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Carole Landis, Akim Tamiroff, Gene Lockhart) – Classic Movie Review 6302
Cult director Douglas Sirk’s intriguing 1946 film stars George Sanders performs with his usual easy elegance in this stylish, twisty and amusing comedy adventure about a notorious real-life 18th/ 19th-century French character called François-Eugène Vidocq. […]
Le Deuxième Souffle [Second Breath] ***** (1966, Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse) – Classic Movie Review 3800
French director Jean-Pierre Melville’s exhilarating 1966 heist gangster thriller Le Deuxième Souffle [Second Breath] is another of his hugely impressive films about the treacherous camaraderie of the criminal underworld. It relishes male friendships and the power […]