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Translation: What Goes Missing in Love

3/11/2017

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)

4/14/2015

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

12/26/2014

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

8/16/2014

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

1/10/2014

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

11/9/2013

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

11/1/2013

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

8/10/2012

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

8/1/2012

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

7/5/2012

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

5/12/2012

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

3/9/2012

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

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