Cinematic biographies of famous artists are not a rare phenomenon, but few such films
manage to evoke the acute sense of despair and injustice that Montparnasse 19 does... [More...]
This popular and entertaining comedy thriller established Pierre Richard as one of France’s
leading comic actors in the 1970s, and his character... [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...]
After the enormous success of
Le Grand blond avec une chaussure noire
(1972), director Yves Robert and screenwriter Francis Veber would have been mad not to
have made a sequel... [More...]
Following their hugely successful pairing in La Moutarde me monte au nez
(1974), Pierre Richard and Jane Birkin and reunited for a second
helping of madcap comedy... [More...]
Having scripted such popular film comedies as
Le Grand blond avec une chaussure noire (1972)
and L’Emmerdeur
(1973), Francis Veber made an impressive directorial debut with Le
Jouet... [More...]
Having established himself as a screenwriter, responsible for some hugely successful French
comic films (including La
Cage aux folles) , Francis Veber turned to directing... [More...]
Le Jumeau is a boisterous, typically Gallic,
sex comedy starring the incomparable Pierre Richard, arguably one of France’s funniest
comic actors... [More...]
Two giants of French cinema, Pierre Richard and Gérard Depardieu, are reunited
for the third and final time in this boisterous comedy-thriller from the distinctly red-nosed
pen of Francis Veber... [More...]
Eric Barbier’s third film in fifteen years, Le Serpent is an almost perfect
example of how heavy-handed direction and stylistic excess can diminish
a film that has the potential to be a respectable entry in the psycho-thriller... [More...]
