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The Confession [L’Aveu] **** (1970, Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Gabriele Ferzetti) – Classic Movie Review 10,968
Yves Montand is a powerful presence in the intense, exciting and revealing true-story political thriller The Confession [L’Aveu] [La Confessione], based on the story of Czechoslovakian communist Artur London, that tellingly concentrates on the documentary-style […]
Seven Beauties [Pasqualino Settebellezze] **** (1975, Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler) – Classic Movie Review 10,894
Writer-producer-director Lina Wertmuller’s very extreme, disturbing and bizarre tale of sadomasochism, the 1975 Italian film Seven Beauties [Pasqualino Settebellezze], focuses on the life of an Italian crook and lothario called Pasqualino or Pasquale Frafuso (the […]
Lady Jane ** (1986, Helena Bonham Carter, Cary Elwes, John Wood) – Classic Movie Review 9620
Director Trevor Nunn’s 1986 Lady Jane is a pretty, though overlong (142 minutes) and slackly paced historical drama about the 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey (Helena Bonham Carter), Henry VIII’s niece, who was forced into marriage […]
Secret People ** (1952, Valentina Cortese, Serge Reggiani, Audrey Hepburn, Charles Goldner) – Classic Movie Review 7598
Director Thorold Dickinson’s dark and downbeat 1951 thriller Secret People is a sluggishly handled, unusually colourless Ealing Studios drama of intrigue, which suffers from a lack of suspense, a surfeit of ideology and a low […]
Les Misérables ***** (1934, Harry Baur, Charles Vanel, Odette Florelle, Josseline Gaël, Charles Dullin, Marguerite Moreno, Jean Servais, Orane Demazis) – Classic Movie Review 3152
Thrilling performances by Harry Baur, as bitter criminal Jean Valjean, and Charles Vanel, as the incredibly dogged policeman Inspector Javert obsessively hunting him down for two decades, light up co-writer/director Raymond Bernard’s esteemed vintage 1934 […]
La Ciociara [Two Women] **** (1961, Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raf Vallone, Eleonora Brown) – Classic Movie Review 2361
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 […]
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