Posts Tagged with ‘France’
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The War: A Memoir – Marguerite Duras
01 May 2019Marguerite Donnadieu was seventeen years old when she moved to France from a small village near Saigon, Vietnam, where…
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Translation: What Goes Missing in Love
11 Mar 2017As an excursion away from politics and the mysteries of man’s love-affairs with war I picked up an old classic,…
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Andre Malraux — Man in his Violence
14 Dec 2016Andre Malraux was the quintessential adventurer-intellectual of the between the World War years. Man’s Hope was on 1960s high school…
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Under Fire: A French Novel of WW I Trenches
14 Nov 2012Although All Quiet on the Western Front is the best known, and possibly the best written, novel of soldiers…
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The French Resistance, A Priest and Dammed Desire
01 Aug 2012Updated at * below… Jean-Pierre Melville, whose well-regarded noir gangster film are on every Francophile or film-buff’s list of must-sees,…
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The Red and The Black: Love and Ambition in a time of Revolution
07 Feb 2012If it has been years since you attended to Stendhal’s great novel, The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of…
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Inch’ Allah Dimanche: Algerian Immigrants to France
16 Jun 2011Immigration is big in the news these days – mostly the opposition to it– around the world. It is absolutely…
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Potiche – Trophy Wife, a frothy French Labor Film
02 Apr 2011We took a flyer last night on Potiche – Trophy Wife, based on Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu being the leads.…
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Army of Crime — Immigrants Who Fought for France, A Film
26 Mar 2011My dear Melinée, my beloved little orphan, In a few hours I will no longer be of this world. We…
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Chabrol’s Eye on the Eye of Vichy
16 Sep 2010Claude Chabrol (and here and here,) one of the founders of French New Wave Cinema and director of some 50…
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Surprises in France
19 May 2007Nicolas Sarkozy, the newly elected President of France, who famously courted Jean Le Pen, the extreme right winger, during the…
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Les Femmes et Les Hommes
04 May 2007“…she is looking at him, and he is looking at his audience…” A friend, a fine writer and translator, Allison…
