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Tag Archives: french
Les cinéphiles 3 – Les ruses de Frédéric (2007)

More young cinephiles in part three of Skorecki’s three part film. Read More »
Un meurtre est un meurtre (1972) Murder Is a Murder

Paul Kastner’s wife dies in tragic circumstances. Although Paul is, or seems, blameless, a stranger soon appears in town who maintains he has evidence to show Paul in fact murdered the woman. Read More »
La doublure (2006) The Valet – Francis Veber

A Parisian valet loves a woman who rejects him: she’s in debt to open a bookshop, and he’s not her ideal man. Read More »
Les cinéphiles 2 – Eric a disparu (1989)

Continuation of the essay on the cinema of Louis Skorecki through the relations of some young cinephiles. Read More »
Sait-on jamais… (1957) No Sun in Venice

Cute Sophie is an amoral French girl living in a sumptuous Venetian palazzo. She is the kept woman of a very rich but undesirable fellow named Eric von Bergen, an ex-nazi turned forger. Read More »
David Golder (1931) Julien Duvivier

David is a poor but ambitious Polish Jew who reinvents himself as a powerful New York business magnate. Read More »
Perfect Love (1996) Parfait amour!

In Dunkirk, a man and a woman meet and fall in love, then hate each other. Read More »
Dirty Money (1972) La maudite galette

A robbery at the secluded country home of a wealthy old man goes horribly awry. Read More »
Mississippi Mermaid (1969) La sirène du Mississipi

Louis Mahe is a tobacco planter at Reunion Island. He is waiting for Julie Roussel to marry him. Read More »