The films of
Jean-François Stévenin
La Nuit américaine (1973)
François Truffaut
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Barocco (1976)
André Téchiné
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L'Argent de poche (1976)
François Truffaut
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Probably the most entertaining film ever made about film making, La nuit amércaine
was a triumph for film director François Truffaut. Not only is this a
great film... [More...]
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Barocco is in essence a great film which has been savagely mutilated through a
combination of not entirely convincing acting and excessively self-conscious photography... [More...]
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In between his lavish period dramas and romantic comedies, François Truffaut made
a slight detour in the mid-1970s with this almost documentary-style portrait of young
school children at play in a small provincial... [More...]
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La Guerre des polices (1979)
Robin Davis
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Allons z'enfants (1981)
Yves Boisset
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Psy (1981)
Philippe de Broca
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La Guerre des polices is a
fine example of the kind of hardboiled, gritty French thriller that
emerged in the late 1970s, following the trend for greater realism and
explicit violence that had been set by Hollywood filmmakers... [More...]
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This is a painfully poignant film adaptation of Yves Gibeau’s controversial 1952 novel.
It explores with uncompromising frankness and lucidity one of the most troubling aspects
of the French education system of... [More...]
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The therapy culture, an emerging phenomenon in France in the late 1970s, is an area which
is ripe for satire, and Philipe de Broca’s comedy Psy manages to tap into this
rich vein with great success... [More...]
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Passion (1982)
Jean-Luc Godard
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Une chambre en ville (1982)
Jacques Demy
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Notre histoire (1984)
Bertrand Blier
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Depending on your predisposition towards Jean-Luc Godard, or your stamina, this is either
an intriguing development of Godard’s art form, challenging the fundamentals of film making... [More...]
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Genial ce film !!! Chante du debut a la fin, il m’a beaucoup emu je l’ai vu dix fois.
J’adore deja les comedies musicales mais tout le temps chante encore plus genial !!!
Dans la meme veine que les parapluies... [More...]
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In a similar vein to Blier’s splendidly surreal Buffet froid, Notre histoire
takes conventional themes, such as bourgeois hypocrisy and obsessive love... [More...]
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Tenue de soirée (1986)
Bertrand Blier
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36 fillette (1988)
Catherine Breillat
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Olivier, Olivier (1992)
Agnieszka Holland
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French film director Bertrand Blier is no stranger to controversy, and in Tenue de
soirée he frames possibly his most explicit and shocking view of the devastating
power of human sexuality... [More...]
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Even before she made this film, Catherine Breillat had acquired a reputation in her earlier
novels and films for her frank and explicit portrayal of female sexuality... [More...]
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Acclaimed Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland followed up her startling
wartime drama Europa Europa
(1990) with this equally compelling psychological drama which takes an
acutely ironic look at the dysfunctional family... [More...]
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