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Writer-director Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 French movie is typical mid-period Godard, not from his top drawer and already just past his glorious prime. Marina Vlady stars as a married Paris suburban wife Juliette, living with her […]
Louis Garrel gives a remarkable star turn as French film director Jean-Luc Godard, taking on his look, voice and his personality. It is an impressive tour de force. He keeps his version of Godard on […]
One of the key French New Wave (Nouvelle Vague) movies of the early Sixties, writer-director Agnés Varda’s essential 1962 film drama Cleo from 5 to 7 1962 [Cléo de 5 à 7] – or portrait […]
Writer-director Eric Rohmer’s oh so French 1996 romantic drama A Summer’s Tale [Conte d’été] is engaging, appealing and eventually quite touching, even if it is not quite from the great director’s top drawer because of […]
Writer-director Jean-Luc Godard amusingly explores the effects of the media on women’s lives in his involving and erotic depiction of cool married woman Charlotte (Macha Méril)’s love affair with an actor, Robert (Bernard Noël), though […]
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 […]
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 […]