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The films of
Lino Ventura
Lino Ventura
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Marie-Octobre (1959) Julien Duvivier |
Un témoin dans la ville (1959) Edouard Molinaro |
Classe tous risques (1960) Claude Sautet |
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| Although the latter part of his career was blighted by some notable misfires and unfair comparison with the work of his younger contemporaries (New Wave directors such as François Truffaut)... [More...] | With two successful crime dramas under his belt, director Edouard Molinaro stays with the genre and delivers what is quite possibly his darkest and most stylish film... [More...] |
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Un taxi pour Tobrouk (1960) Denys de La Patellière |
La Ragazza in vetrina (1961) Luciano Emmer |
Les Lions sont lâchés (1961) Henri Verneuil |
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| Inspired by a popular novel by René Havard, Un taxi pour Tobrouk is a classic French war film that shows the brutality and absurdity of war without slipping into sentimentality or laboured anti-war polemic... [More...] |
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Le Diable et les dix commandements (1962) Julien Duvivier |
Les Petits matins (1962) Jacqueline Audry |
Les Tontons flingueurs (1963) Georges Lautner |
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| The multi-part film is a difficult kind of cinema to get right but Duvivier’s Le Diable et les dix commandements is a rare exception where the form succeeds admirably... [More...] |
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What was originally envisaged as a serious gangster thriller ended up as a classy comedy thriller, the first in what would become a popular sub-genre in French cinema in the late 1960s... [More...] |
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Cent mille dollars au soleil (1964) Henri Verneuil |
Les Barbouzes (1964) Georges Lautner |
L'Arme à gauche (1965) Claude Sautet |
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| Director Henri Verneuil originally conceived this film as a latter day Gallic western, with lorries replacing horses, and the North African landscape making a plausible substitute for the American mid-west... [More...] | After the huge success of Les Tontons flingueurs, an outrageously funny parody of the gangster film, the director-writer team Georges Lautner and Michel Audiard repeated their winning formula with Les Barbouzes... [More...] | Although his first action thriller, Classe tous risques, was ill-received by both critics and cinema goers, director Claude Sautet persevered a made a second film in the same genre... [More...] |
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La Métamorphose des cloportes (1965) Pierre Granier-Deferre |
Le Deuxième souffle (1966) Jean-Pierre Melville |
Les Grandes gueules (1966) Robert Enrico |
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| La Métamorphose des cloportes is a typically French comedy policier of the kind that was very popular in the mid-1960s. After the success of Georges Lautner’s 1963 film Les Tontons flingueurs... [More...] | The familiar Jean-Pierre Melville themes of honour, loyalty and redemption underpin this hard-edged policier which sees the formidable pairing of Lino Ventura and Paul Meurisse... [More...] | A striking combination of action thriller and sardonic western, Les Grandes gueules is probably the French film that comes closest in style and substance to the tough Hollywood cowboy films of the 1950s and 1960s... [More...] |
