Translation: What Goes Missing in Love
As an excursion away from politics and the mysteries of man’s love-affairs with war I picked up an old classic, …
Tag Archives: Movies:France
1,000 Times Goodnight – a Film about Temptations (of death)
I am a great admirer of Juliet Binoche, as many movie goers are; if she’s in a film I’ll go out of …
Looking for the Dead: Bertrand Tavernier Takes a Look at WW I
Some 350,ooo French soldiers in WW I have never been found. Is that possible? With almost one million five hundred …
The Well-Digger’s Daughter — Another Pagnol Gem
Maurice Pagnol, the French novelist, and film maker –just to hint at his curriculum vitae— is likely best known to …
Blue is the Longest Color
Abdellatif Kechiche, director of the fine 2007 film Secret of the Grain, about working class immigrants in the French fishing …
Company K — Americans in France, WW I
William March’s 1933 novel, Company K, about an American Marine company in France for 9 months at the end of …
The Secret of the Grain — the Couscous of Love
Abdel Kechiche is getting a lot of press these weeks for his daring love story of two woman, daringly shown, …
Outcasts Cast Their Lots Together
So I have no idea why the excellent French movie, titled Intouchables in French, is being marketed as “Intouchables” in …
The French Resistance, A Priest and Dammed Desire
Updated at * below… Jean-Pierre Melville, whose well-regarded noir gangster film are on every Francophile or film-buff’s list of must-sees, …
The Silence of the Sea — A Film of Noncooperation with Evil
The Silence of the Sea, a 1949 film by Jean Pierre Melville, may be one of the strangest war movies …
The Wedding Song — In Tunis As the Nazis Come
The Wedding Song [2008] is a deeply felt film of young women’s friendship under the extreme stress of wartime as …
The Train — A Movie Worth Getting Aboard
My grandfather was a railroad man on the Southern Pacific; my father a model railroader with a setup that filled …