In the 1930s, we follow the story of the laundress Berthe who marries the eldest son of a bourgeois family. Read More »
Tag Archives: Michel Auclair
Si Versailles m’était conté (1954) Sacha Guitry, Michel Auclair, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean-Louis Barrault
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV Read More »
Manon (1949) Henri-Georges Clouzot, Serge Reggiani, Michel Auclair, Cécile Aubry, Drama, Crime
An adaptation of Abbe Prevost’s classic French novel ‘Manon Lescaut’, updated to post-World War II France, in which a former French Resistance activist rescues Manon from villagers who want to lynch her for collaborating with the Nazis. They move to Paris, but their relationship quickly turns stormy after they get involved in profiteering, prostitution and murder…
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3 hommes à abattre / Three Men to Destroy (1980) Jacques Deray, Alain Delon, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Michel Auclair, Action, Crime, Drama
A man helps the victim of an auto accident, not realizing that the man has actually been shot. The men who shot him are now after the man who helped him, in order to eliminate him as a potential witness. Soon they are killing everyone he even comes in contact with in order to get him.
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Maigret et l’affaire Saint-Fiacre / Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case (1959) Jean Delannoy, Jean Gabin, Michel Auclair, Valentine Tessier
Inspector Maigret is traveling to the French countryside to visit his friend, the duchess of Saint-Fiacre. She has received a letter recently stating that she will die soon. A few days later she does so by an heart attack, but Maigret does not believe in this…
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La fête à Henriette / Holiday for Henrietta (1952) Julien Duvivier, Dany Robin, Michel Auclair, Hildegard Knef
After the rejection of their latest – and preposterous – scenario, two script writers get back to basics to prepare a new movie. The new scenario centers on Henriette, a pretty, lively Parisian, and how she spends the 14th of July in Paris with her fiancé. We follow the tribulations of Henriette as various other characters make their entry in the story and turn a traditional festive day into something more adventurous than expected.
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