The feature-film debut of famed director Louis Malle is an interesting, modern film noir with the classic theme of lovers plotting to kill the husband and make it look like suicide (reminiscent of The Postman Always Rings Twice). Catherine, He shares his cousin Paul’s flat. 20,061
Jean-Luc Godard Hubert Deschamps, Not Rated Claude Chabrol | |
The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife. Early new wave effort from Rohmer which was the first of his six moral tales. Director:
Stars: The two intertwine their stories about the past with pondering the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on the city. After a series of episodes in which both members of the couple express dissatisfaction with the other, and together ruminate on regret, Elena decides to take a boat across the lake to visit some friends. The friendship of Bertrand and Guillaume is complicated when the womanizing Guillaume begins to pursue a charming girl named Suzanne.
Michael Lonsdale, GP
Yacef Saadi, Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria.
Sady Rebbot, Elena realizes that Richard Lennox is the same man as Roger Lennox ("the same, but different").
A documentary about the everyday lives of ordinary Parisians, done in the style of cinéma vérité. 54 min
Jean-Luc Godard Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple — lovers turned friends — recount, over many hours, previous romances and life experiences. |
113 min | | | Comedy, Drama, Music.
| Director: Graziella Galvani,
| Sandrine Bonnaire, $0.02M, Not Rated Ensuing fights and shootouts are more comical than deadly.
97 min Comedy, Drama. | Takes place in a chateau, an ambiguous story of a man and a woman who may or may not have met last year at Marienbad. He has an affair with a Japanese woman, jeopardising his marriage.
François Truffaut
Jean-Louis Trintignant, | 28,390
Stars: Drama, Romance. Jean-Paul Belmondo, | Drama. | Stars: With Godard, Claude Chabrol was the most prolific of the major nouvelle vague filmmakers. 90 min
Jacques Rivette The film was restored and re-released by Demy’s widow, French filmmaker Agnès Varda. Philippe Beuzen,
They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run. François Truffaut
Agnès Varda | Stars:
Director: Director:
Macha Méril,
Claire Maurier, François Wertheimer,
Dani, Not Rated François Truffaut In the first half Lennox represents film and its makers that are taken in hand by the industry and nurtured but allowed to perish, or almost perish. Louisa Colpeyn, Votes: TV Shows.
The misfit trio upends convention at every turn, be it through choreographed dances in cafés or frolicsome romps through the Louvre. Guy Decomble, Not Rated Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. An American private-eye, arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet which is ruled by an evil scientist named Von Braun, who has outlawed love and self-expression.
Stars: Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. In Paris, Bob Montagne is practically synonymous with gambling — and winning. In Paris, before WWI, two friends, Jules (Austrian) and Jim (French) fall in love with the same woman, Catherine. camp. After the war, when they meet again in Germany, Catherine starts to love Jim… This is the story of three people in love, a love which does not affect their friendship, and about how their relationship evolves with the years. | Stars: As in Resnais’ earlier films, memory is deflected, fragmented, enshrined, and imagined.
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Drama, War. Kaja Silverman and Harun Farocki likewise devote an entire chapter to the film in their Speaking About Godard.
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Jean-Luc Godard |
To replenish its decreasing stocks of food, medicine and energies, and in doing so, resulting in a perpetual memory of a lone female, life, death and past events that are recreated on an airport’s viewing pier.
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Fred Junck, Not Rated 102 min Roger offers Elena his hand, and Elena accepts his offer (the "miracle of empty hands," borrowed from Diary of a Country Priest).
Jean-Pierre Léaud,
Jean-Claude Brialy,
Marie-France Pisier, Anna Karina, The waitress Lena is in love with him. Henri Serre,
In the process, she finds herself torn between him and his best friend Alfred.
Drama, Mystery. | Gross: Isabelle Weingarten, Not Rated The rigid principles of a devout Catholic man are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality. Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Anne Goupil is a literature student in Paris in 1957. Film is reborn in the figure of the French New Wave ("La Nouvelle Vague"), the filmmakers of which arrived armed with knowledge of the history of film but shrewd enough to manipulate the industry for their own ends, thus saving the industry from its own demise. In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government. This time, it is Lennox that decides to take the boat out, and it is Elena that falls into the water, apparently unable to swim. 5,869