Derek Winnert

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Adieu Poulet [The French Detective] *** (1975, Lino Ventura, Patrick Dewaere, Victor Lanoux) – Classic Movie Review 7053

Lino Ventura stars as the crafty French detective, Chief Inspector Verjeat, who clashes with pushy politician Pierre Lardatte (Victor Lanoux), in this impressive 1975 dubbed French murder thriller The French Detective, based on the novel […]

May, 14

La Femme Infidèle [The Unfaithful Wife] ***** (1968, Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Maurice Ronet) – Classic Movie Review 4199

Writer-director Claude Chabrol is on peak form in the wonderful 1968 French psycho-sexual murder thriller La Femme Infidèle [The Unfaithful Wife]. And so is his then wife Stéphane Audran as Hélène Desvallées, the smart, unfaithful […]

Aug, 19

A Prophet [Un prophète] ***** (2009, Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif) – Classic Movie Review 252

This scaldingly great 2009 French prison crime drama is another masterwork from Jacques Audiard, the director of The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005) and Rust and Bone (2012). It won the Bafta for Best […]

Sep, 20

Classe Tous Risques [The Big Risk] ***** (1960, Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marcel Dalio) – Classic Movie Review 236

Lino Ventura is perfect as a doomed anti-hero in Claude Sautet’s bleak, tough 1960 French film noir-style gangster film Classe Tous Risques [The Big Risk]. Sandra Milo plays a young actress befriended by a young […]

Sep, 11

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