French civilization in the desert. Saganne is of peasant stock, with courage and a forceful will. Read More »
Tag Archives: Alain Corneau
Série noire (1979) Alain Corneau, Patrick Dewaere, Myriam Boyer, Marie Trintignant, Bernard Blier
Franck Poupart is a slightly neurotic door-to-door salesman in a sinister part of Paris’ suburbs. Read More »
France société anonyme / French Anonymity Society (1974) Alain Corneau, Michel Bouquet, Allyn Ann McLerie, Roland Dubillard
Year 2222. A former drug dealer who keeps someone alive artificially, tells how, in France in the 70s Read More »
All the Mornings of the World (1991) Alain Corneau, Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Anne Brochet
It’s late 17th century. The viola da gamba player Monsieur de Sainte Colombe comes home to find that his wife died while he was away. Read More »
Choice of Arms / Le choix des armes (1981) Alain Corneau, Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve
Two men break out of prison; a rival gang ambushes them. One is mortally wounded and tells the other, Mickey Read More »
The Second Wind / Le deuxième souffle (2007) Alain Corneau, Daniel Auteuil, Monica Bellucci, Michel Blanc
Gu, a famous gangster, has just escaped from jail. All french police is after him. Read More »
Extreme Justice / Le môme (1986) Alain Corneau, Richard Anconina, Ambre, Michel Duchaussoy
The meeting of a marginal cop and a rootless mixed-race woman led Read More »
Police Python 357 (1976) Alain Corneau, Yves Montand, François Périer, Simone Signoret
An inspector is having a secret relationship with a woman. Read More »
Stupeur et tremblements / Fear and Trembling (2003) Alain Corneau, Sylvie Testud, Kaori Tsuji, Tarô Suwa, Comedy, Drama
A Belgian woman looks back on her year at a Japanese corporation in Tokyo in 1990. She is Amélie, born in Japan, living there until age 5. Read More »
La menace / The Threat (1977) Alain Corneau, Yves Montand, Carole Laure, Marie Dubois
Henri Savin has managed a trucking company for his lover, Dominique Montlaur, for many years. Now he is planning to leave her for Julie Manet, the woman he has made pregnant, and Dominique is hysterical. She first threatens suicide, then shows up at a meeting of Savin and Julie. Dominique tries everything she can think of to break Savin and Julie apart, to no avail. Frustrated in her efforts, she jumps off a cliff and dies. Savin insists that he and Julie lie to the police about the encounter, although Dominique’s death was a suicide and therefore they had no direct hand in it. Detective Waldeck investigates Dominique’s death.
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