France, 1750s; Benjamin has spent his entire childhood and early adolescence in the sole company of his tutor Camille. Read More »
Tag Archives: Michel Piccoli
Themroc (1973) Claude Faraldo, Michel Piccoli, Béatrice Romand, Marilù Tolo
This extraordinary romp uses no language whatever, except gestures and grunts. Read More »
Heartbeat AKA La chamade (1968) Alain Cavalier, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Roger Van Hool
Lucile, 25, is the beautiful mistress of Charles, a rich, good-hearted businessman. Read More »
Weak Spot AKA La faille (1975) Peter Fleischmann, Michel Piccoli, Ugo Tognazzi, Mario Adorf
Based on a novel by Antonis Samarakis, Peter Fleischmann’s La faille also known as Weak Spot stars Ugo Tognazzi as Georgis Read More »
Malady of Love AKA Maladie d’amour (1987) Jacques Deray, Nastassja Kinski, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Michel Piccoli
Mad love. Two physicians, one old and one young, fall in love with the same woman, Juliette, a quixotic hairdresser. Read More »
Tykho Moon (1996) Enki Bilal, Julie Delpy, Johan Leysen, Michel Piccoli
The McBee family has erected a government over a future ‘colony’, that looks like a run-down Paris Read More »
Don’t Touch the White Woman! AKA Touche pas à la femme blanche (1974) Marco Ferreri, Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli
Director Mario Fererri reenacts the events leading up to the Battle of the Little Big Horn in this wild Read More »
The Assassination AKA L’attentat (1972) Yves Boisset, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Michel Piccoli, Jean Seberg
Sadiel, rebel leader in a North African state, takes refuge in Switzerland in the aftermath of a coup. Read More »
Wedding in Blood (1973) Claude Chabrol, Stéphane Audran, Michel Piccoli, Claude Piéplu
Lucienne Delamare and Pierre Maury are having an affair. Read More »
The General of the Dead Army (1983) Luciano Tovoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Michel Piccoli
In the early 1960s, nearly 20 years since the Second World War ended, an Italian general Read More »
The Black Angel (1994) Jean-Claude Brisseau, Sylvie Vartan, Michel Piccoli, Tchéky Karyo
A visitor comes to the home of Stephane, the wife of an important magistrate. Read More »
Party (1996) Manoel de Oliveira, Michel Piccoli, Irene Papas, Leonor Silveira
The battle of the sexes? The forces of despair and seduction? On S. Miguel in the Azores, Rogério, a young man with old money Read More »
Long Live Life (1984) Claude Lelouch, Charlotte Rampling, Michel Piccoli, Jean-Louis Trintignant
The movie starts with an interview with director Claude Lelouch. He pleads viewers not to disclose the plot of the movie after leaving the projection room. Read More »
All About Loving (1964) Jean Aurel, Anna Karina, Elsa Martinelli, Michel Piccoli
Hélène, who has just broken up with Raoul, a dentist, lets herself be seduced (though not without great resistance) by the obstinate Serge. Read More »
Diary of a Chambermaid (1964) Luis Buñuel, Jeanne Moreau, Georges Géret, Michel Piccoli, Crime, Drama
Celestine, the chambermaid, has new occupation around the nation. The Monteils, that works for are a bunch of odd men and women. Read More »