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Tag Archives: Jean-François Balmer
Cop or Hood / Flic ou voyou (1979) Georges Lautner

When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute’s house Read More »
Cosmos (2015) Andrzej Zulawski, Sabine Azéma, Jean-François Balmer, Jonathan Genet

Witold just failed his law-school exams and Fuchs has just quit his job at a Parisian fashion company. Read More »
Madame Bovary (1991) Claude Chabrol

In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire (Emma Rouault) marries a dull country doctor (Charles Bovary). Read More »
The African AKA L’Africain (1983) Philippe de Broca, Catherine Deneuve, Philippe Noiret, Jean-François Balmer

A travel agent travels to Africa intending to start a resort hotel only to encounter her crusty ex-husband and ivory smugglers. Read More »
Polar (1984) Jacques Bral, Jean-François Balmer, Sandra Montaigu, Pierre Santini

This film noir tends to stay within very conventional plot lines, as the narration by the main protagonist Read More »