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The films of
Bernard Borderie
Bernard Borderie
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La Môme vert-de-gris (1953) Bernard Borderie |
Ces dames préfèrent le mambo (1957) Bernard Borderie |
Le Gorille vous salue bien (1958) Bernard Borderie |
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| The previously unknown Eddie Constantine became an overnight star in France when La Môme vert-de-gris was released in 1953, one of the most popular films of that year... [More...] | Eddie Constantine stars in this somewhat lacklustre pastiche of film noir and American-style action/adventure, a formula that was hugely popular in France in the 1950s... [More...] |
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Comment qu'elle est! (1960) Bernard Borderie |
Le Caïd (1960) Bernard Borderie |
Le Chevalier de Pardaillan (1962) Bernard Borderie |
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| Just as French cinema was going through its most significant upheaval for decades, FBI agent Lemmy Caution made a welcome return to cinema screens after an absence of nearly five years... [More...] |
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Le Chevalier de Pardaillan is typical of the kind of swashbuckling adventure film that was enormously popular in France in the 1950s and 1960s. Based on historical novels... [More...] |
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Lemmy pour les dames (1962) Bernard Borderie |
Angélique, marquise des anges (1964) Bernard Borderie |
Merveilleuse Angélique (1965) Bernard Borderie |
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| The ever-resourceful Lemmy Caution returns for yet another testosterone-surge outing, charming pretty ladies and punching nasty men, just like they used to do in those halcyon days of B-movie mediocrity... [More...] | This is the first, and notably the best, in a series of five films chronicling the adventures of a beautiful 17th century marquise, Angélique... [More...] | The second instalment in the series of five Angélique films directed by Bernard Borderie and starring Michèle Mercier is a creditable successor to the first... [More...] |
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Angélique et le roy (1966) Bernard Borderie |
Indomptable Angélique (1967) Bernard Borderie |
Angélique et le sultan (1968) Bernard Borderie |
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| The third in the series of five films adapted from the stories by Anne et Serge Golon sees Angélique torn between her loyalties to her state (whom she must serve to safeguard her children’s future) and her... [More...] | This, the fourth installement in the five-part series of films based on the Angélique stories of Anne et Serge Golon very nearly never came about... [More...] | The fifth and final instalment in the Angélique film saga is, despite some impressive production values, clearly the weakest. It lacks the warm sentimentality of the earlier films and seems overly preoccupied with... [More...] |
