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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
