Posts Tagged with ‘Movies:France’
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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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1,000 Times Goodnight – a Film about Temptations (of death)
14 Apr 2015I am a great admirer of Juliet Binoche, as many movie goers are; if she’s in a film I’ll go out of…
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Looking for the Dead: Bertrand Tavernier Takes a Look at WW I
26 Dec 2014Some 350,ooo French soldiers in WW I have never been found. Is that possible? With almost one million five hundred…
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The Well-Digger’s Daughter — Another Pagnol Gem
16 Aug 2014Maurice Pagnol, the French novelist, and film maker –just to hint at his curriculum vitae— is likely best known to…
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Blue is the Longest Color
10 Jan 2014Abdellatif Kechiche, director of the fine 2007 film Secret of the Grain, about working class immigrants in the French fishing…
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Company K — Americans in France, WW I
09 Nov 2013William March’s 1933 novel, Company K, about an American Marine company in France for 9 months at the end of…
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The Secret of the Grain — the Couscous of Love
01 Nov 2013Abdel Kechiche is getting a lot of press these weeks for his daring love story of two woman, daringly shown,…
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Outcasts Cast Their Lots Together
10 Aug 2012So I have no idea why the excellent French movie, titled Intouchables in French, is being marketed as “Intouchables” in…
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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 Silence of the Sea — A Film of Noncooperation with Evil
05 Jul 2012The Silence of the Sea, a 1949 film by Jean Pierre Melville, may be one of the strangest war movies…
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The Wedding Song — In Tunis As the Nazis Come
12 May 2012The Wedding Song [2008] is a deeply felt film of young women’s friendship under the extreme stress of wartime as…
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The Train — A Movie Worth Getting Aboard
09 Mar 2012My grandfather was a railroad man on the Southern Pacific; my father a model railroader with a setup that filled…
