Outcasts Cast Their Lots Together
So I have no idea why the excellent French movie, titled Intouchables in French, is being marketed as “Intouchables” in …
Tag Archives: Movies:France
The French Resistance, A Priest and Dammed Desire
Updated at * below… Jean-Pierre Melville, whose well-regarded noir gangster film are on every Francophile or film-buff’s list of must-sees, …
The Silence of the Sea — A Film of Noncooperation with Evil
The Silence of the Sea, a 1949 film by Jean Pierre Melville, may be one of the strangest war movies …
The Wedding Song — In Tunis As the Nazis Come
The Wedding Song [2008] is a deeply felt film of young women’s friendship under the extreme stress of wartime as …
The Train — A Movie Worth Getting Aboard
My grandfather was a railroad man on the Southern Pacific; my father a model railroader with a setup that filled …
Inch’ Allah Dimanche: Algerian Immigrants to France
Immigration is big in the news these days – mostly the opposition to it– around the world. It is absolutely …
Potiche – Trophy Wife, a frothy French Labor Film
We took a flyer last night on Potiche – Trophy Wife, based on Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu being the leads. …