Athough Edouard Molinaro’s first collaboration with Louis de Funès (Oscar
, 1967) had not been entirely amiable, the film director allowed himself to be
pursued by Gaumont to make a second film featuring... [More...]
Yves Montand shows great promise as a comic performer in this entertaining farce from
Philippe de Broca. As is fairly typical of popular French comedies of this
period... [More...]
This is a totally off the wall but brilliantly funny comment on bourgeois life in France
of the early 1970s. As in his earlier film, Belle du jour, director Luis
Bunuel mingles reality and fantasy to the point that... [More...]
Attracting around 7.2 million cinema-goers in France alone, Les Aventures de
Rabbi Jacob was by far the most popular film to be released in France in 1973... [More...]
Once again, director Claude Chabrol sets about exploring the not so discrete charm of
the bourgeoisie in another well-honed psychological thriller. Here the central theme
is how the endless pursuit of freedom can rebound... [More...]
Following a line from his earlier film, La
Voie lactée (1969), Luis Buñuel gives free reign to his own phantom
of liberty in this highly entertaining satirical comedy... [More...]
Pierre Richard teams up with Jane Birkin in this rip-roaring comedy, a laugh-a-minute
farce which is filled with gloriously over-the-top comic situations... [More...]
Not only is this Bertrand Blier’s first major film; it is also the film which propelled
actor Gérard Depardieu to stardom. Although the film has its strengths –
mainly some very funny comic situations... [More...]
Claude Miller – previously assistant director to François Truffaut –
made an impressive directorial debut with this daring study of masculinity... [More...]
Following Repulsion
(1965) and Rosemary’s Baby (1968),
Roman Polanski completed his masterful trilogy of social isolation and paranoia with The
Tenant (Le Locataire) in 1974... [More...]
Not a great film, admittedly, but Le
Pion isn’t without a certain charm, thanks to its sympathetic
cast and plethora of imaginative visual gags... [More...]
Inspired by the real-life sugar crisis of 1974, this film is an entertaining satire on
the world of big finance and speculation. Although the story is a little bland... [More...]
With tongue firmly in cheek and an evident gush of creative flair, Michel Deville happily
deconstructs the comedy thriller in this visually striking minimalist film... [More...]
With four full-length films comfortably under his directorial belt, Gérard Jugnot
is starting to exude the confidence of a man who isn’t going to let good taste or squeamish
gutter-press-informed public sensibilities... [More...]
There are some subjects which naturally do not lend themselves well to comedy, and the
activities of evil, mind-bending sects is arguably one of them... [More...]
