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Posts Tagged with ‘Movies:France’

  • Translation: What Goes Missing in Love

    11 Mar 2017

    As 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 2015

    I 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 2014

    Some 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 2014

    Maurice 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 2014

    Abdellatif 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 2013

    William 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 2013

    Abdel 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 2012

    So 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 2012

    Updated 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 2012

    The 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 2012

    The 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 2012

    My grandfather was a railroad man on the Southern Pacific; my father a model railroader with a setup that filled…

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