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Le Dernier Métro [The Last Metro] **** (1980, Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve, Heinz Bennent, Jean Poiret, Andrea Ferreol, Paulette Dubost, Sabine Haudepin) – Classic Movie Review 3021

Co-writer/director François Truffaut’s endearing1980 film is a fine tribute to the French theatre and the spirit of bravery and resistance. You can smell the greasepaint backstage and feel the mood of the wartime Nazi Occupation […]

Nov, 01

Mississippi Mermaid [La Sirène du Mississippi] **** (1969, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Bouquet) – Classic Movie Review 3,024

Ah, yes, love leads to an uncertain future when you lie, cheat, rob and murder. François Truffaut turns a Cornell Woolrich novel into the moody and engaging 1969 film noir Mississippi Mermaid with the right […]

Nov, 01

Un Flic [Dirty Money] **** (1972, Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, Richard Crenna) – Classic Movie Review 2,821

Jean-Pierre Melville’s rousing, stylish 1972 French crime thriller Un Flic [Dirty Money] features an ideally cast Alain Delon as a rough cop (un flic) and Richard Crenna as a hoodlum, two tough guys involved in […]

Aug, 16

The Young Girls of Rochefort [Les demoiselles de Rochefort] ***** (1967, Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac, Gene Kelly, George Chakiris, Danielle Darrieux) – Classic Movie Review 1946

French movie director Jacques Demy’s 1967 musical follow-up to his 1964 Cannes Palme d’or-winning hit The Umbrellas of Cherbourg [Les parapluies de Cherbourg] is another devastatingly charming, light-hearted, carefree operetta. It is overloaded with energy, dynamism and […]

Dec, 10

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg [Les parapluies de Cherbourg] ***** (1964, Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon) – Classic Movie Review 1945

Told in four acts, writer-director Jacques Demy’s irresistible, bitter-sweet 1964 classic French musical romance has originality, freshness, joie de vivre and charm in bucketfuls. Though the actors are dubbed, every word is sung in Demy’s seemingly effortless […]

Dec, 10

The Hunger ***** (1983, Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon) – Classic Movie Review 87

Based on the 1981 novel by Whitley Strieber, this enchanting 1983 erotic vampire movie is one of cinema’s most crucial of its perennially popular kind. It is perhaps even more remarkable for its iconic characters […]

Jul, 24

Repulsion **** (1965, Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Yvonne Furneaux, Patrick Wymark) – Classic Movie Review 66

‘I must get this crack mended.’ How can this ever have sounded more sinister? Making his first film in English in 1965, Polish director Roman Polanski comes up with a uniquely chilling, dark and disturbing […]

Jul, 19

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