This film recounts Henri Verneuil’s relationship with his father who had brought Read More »
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The Man Hunt AKA La garce (1984) Christine Pascal, Isabelle Huppert, Richard Berry, Vittorio Mezzogiorno
Lucien Sabatier is a police inspector. One night, while he is on his round Read More »
The Bill AKA L’addition (1984) Denis Amar, Richard Berry, Richard Bohringer, Victoria Abril
For having wanted to defend a young girl accused of theft, a comedian finds himself in prison. Read More »
Honeymoon AKA Lune de miel (1985) Patrick Jamain, Nathalie Baye, John Shea, Richard Berry
A Frenchwoman in Manhattan, in danger of being deported because of her relationship with a recently arrested drug offender Read More »
And the Little Prince Said AKA Le petit prince a dit (1992) Christine Pascal, Richard Berry, Anémone, Marie Kleiber
A divorced Swiss couple must come to terms with their daughter’s life-threatening illness. Read More »
Love Crime AKA Le crime d’amour (1982) Guy Gilles, Macha Méril, Richard Berry, Jacques Penot
To escape anonymity, a young man takes responsibility for a crime he did not commit. Read More »
The Black Box AKA La boîte noire (2005) Richard Berry, José Garcia, Marion Cotillard, Michel Duchaussoy
Images flash through Arthur’s brain, voices buzz in his mind, uttering disjointed words and sentences. Read More »
Day of Atonement (1992) Alexandre Arcady, Roger Hanin, Richard Berry, Gérard Darmon
It’s an all-out-war when a government agent tries to regain control of a turf struggle between drug lords. Read More »
L’Univers De Jacques Demy / The World Of Jacques Demy (1995) Agnès Varda, Anouk Aimée, Richard Berry, Nino Castelnuovo, Documentary
Une chambre en ville / A Room in Town (1982) Jacques Demy, Dominique Sanda, Danielle Darrieux, Richard Berry, Drama, Musical
A film musical in which every line is sung. The frame is about workers during a strike. They also prepare and perform a demonstration. Two personal relations develop against this background. François abandons his pregnant girlfriend Violette. She feels treated even more unjust when he tries to defend and excuse his behaviour. He had met a very beautiful over-class girl, Edith, and both were immediately overwhelmed by genuine and reciprocal passion. Edith lived in a very unsatisfactory marriage. She was the daughter of the widow from which François rented his room. Nevertheless, he met her in the street, where she just opened her fur coat and was starch naked under it. They will be together in great passion for just one night and day. At the demonstration François is shot by the police and dies in Edith’s arms. – The music is closer to opera than in any other film musical by Jacques Demy. But the greatest difference is that he has devoted much more effort to the task of instructing the…
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Un homme et une femme, 20 ans déjà / A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (1986) Claude Lelouch, Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Richard Berry, Drama, Romance
Jean-Louis and Anne have had their fling and separated. Now 20 years have passed. He is still dating various women. She is now a big time director whose most recent film was a very expensive bomb. She comes up with the idea of making a romance based upon her fling with Jean-Louis. She contacts him to gain his permission. Jean-Louis is still in racing and goes away for a desert rally while she begins filming. She finds the mood of their romance difficult to recapture in her film.
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La balance (1982) Bob Swaim
Nicole is a Parisian streetwalker and Dede is her racketeer boyfriend, on the outs with his mob bosses because of a dispute over Nicole. When a police informant (“balance”) is murdered, the cops have to scramble for a replacement. Deciding on Dede, they begin to put a nasty squeeze on him and Nicole.
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