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Jean-Paul Belmondo gives the performance of a lifetime as the hounded hero Jean Valjean in a hugely moving, beautifully crafted and enjoyable 1995 French reworking of the Victor Hugo tale of social injustice and despair. […]
Writer-director Jean-Luc Godard’s deservedly celebrated 1965 French classic borrows its plot from the American thriller genre. Jean-Paul Belmondo, from Godard’s Breathless (À bout de souffle), again stars for the French New Wave maestro as Ferdinand Griffon, ‘Pierrot’ […]
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 […]
Sophia Loren won Best Actress awards at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival and the 1962 Oscars for her glorious tour-de-force in the 1961 drama film La Ciociara [Two Women], the first non-English-language performance to win […]
Director Jean-Luc Godard followed three short films with his first and still most celebrated 1960 full-length movie À bout de souffle [Breathless]. A dazzlingly realised homage to American B-movie thrillers, it was written while he was shooting […]
The original 1967 Casino Royale movie is a huge-scale, vastly costly James Bond spoof, starring David Niven as British secret agent Sir James Bond, who is called out of retirement after the death of M […]
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 […]
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