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Posts Tagged "François Truffaut"

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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

La femme d’à côté [The Woman Next Door] *** (1981, Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Henri Garcin) – Classic Movie Review 3022

Writer-director François Truffaut’s 1981 romantic drama is his 20th and penultimate film, which reteams him with Gérard Depardieu from his previous movie, The Last Metro (1980). Depardieu stars as a marine engineer called Bernard Coudray, […]

Nov, 01

Vivement Dimanche! [Finally, Sunday!] *** (1983, Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Serge Rousseau) – Classic Movie Review 3023

François Truffaut’s 21st and last feature film before his tragically early death at 52 from a brain tumour on 21 October 1984 is a surprisingly bright and jolly comedy thriller – a movie toast to […]

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

L’Amour a Vingt Ans [Love at 20] **** (1962, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Patrick Auffay) – Classic Movie Review 3020

Five directors from around the world present their different perspectives on what love is like at the age of 20 in a 1962 omnibus anthology of separate episodes united by their theme, the score of Georges […]

Oct, 31

Les Mistons [The Mischief-Makers] *** (1957, Gérard Blain, Bernadette Lafont, Michel François) – Classic Movie Review 3019

François Truffaut’s charming and revealing 1957 nostalgic short is his first professional film. Financed by his film distributor wife Madeleine Morgenstern and filmed on location in Nimes with five local boys as the Mistons (Mischief-Makers), […]

Oct, 31

L’Argent de Poche [Small Change] **** (1976, Georges Desmouceaux, Philippe Goldmann, Nicole Félix) – Classic Movie Review 3018

Director François Truffaut’s 1976 hymn to the joys of youth is a series of charming anecdotes about a group of provincial French schoolboys, their teachers and parents in the town of Thiers in the summer of […]

Oct, 30

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