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With lingerie of this beauty wouldn’t a woman want to wear it over, not under? I’ve been looking at some favourite films again over the last week. All of them … Continue reading
50 French Films
I wondered at first about how important it was to look at film through national boundaries. But it is one of the ways many people approach film. French film makers … Continue reading
Phantom India
Louis Malle is a film director hard to assess because of the variety in his work and often gets left off lists of important film directors precisely because he can’t … Continue reading
La fidélité
Andrzej Żuławski has made a name for himself by writing and directing excessive, baroque movies that defy realism, good taste and many cinematic conventions (including commercial considerations). He reminds me … Continue reading
La séparation
Christian Vincent directed this 1994 film, based on a novel of the same name by Parisian writer Dan Franck, and it was written for the screen by Vincent and Franck. … Continue reading
La clef (The Key)
La clef (The Key) is a 2007 film written and directed by Guillaume Nicloux. A film which was very well reviewed in France, but had a poor reception in America, … Continue reading
The mystery of L’appartement
DOP Thierry Arbogast (l) and Gilles Mimouni (r) set up a shot L’appartement is a 1996 film written and directed by Gilles Mimouni, a romance film with a difference. Mimouni … Continue reading
