DVD: Jean Carmet

DVD: Jean Carmet

DVD:

Jean Carmet

Brigitte Bardot, Annie Girardot

Pathfinder Home Ent., 2003

4 stars for Bardot
This Bardot vehicle boasts an excellent transfer to DVD. BB is in fine comedic form, and Annie Girardot is altogether convincing in her "straight" role as a serious prostitute. The best moments include Brigitte (Agnes) learning the "tricks" of the trade, being followed ...

Sorceress (French with English Subtitles)

Tcheky Karyo, Christine Boisson

Lara Classics, Inc., 1987

Lady of the Beasts
Having treasured this film since its production, I am thrilled to have been able to update my aging VHS copy with this pristine DVD. It feels like a rebirth in more ways than one. Our current age of ecological crisis and commitment provides a ripe climate for this ...

Black and White in Color/The Sky Above, The Mud Below

Jean Carmet, Jacques Dufilho

Homevision, 2003

WAR WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR.....this short film
A great anti war film...short and to the point.Great acting and story. Best Foreign Film Oscar© winner, 1976's BLACK AND WHITE IN COLOR (Home Vision Entertainment)is set in Africa in World War I. French colonials learn their country is at war with Germany, they, ...

La Rupture

Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel

Pathfinder Home Ent., 2003

Hmmm... That summary leaves a bit to be desired...
Excellent Chabrol film --- probably the best introduction to the director. I'm suprised and very happy that this is out on video at a sell-through price. For some inexplicable reason, no one seems to talk much about this film. It's extremely absorbing and quite ...

And Soon the Darkness

Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice

Starz / Anchor Bay, 2002

A superb "Film Blanc"
"And Soon the Darkness" is one of those odd little films that occasionally surfaces in some of the better reference books on horror and suspense, but remains unknown to the casual fan. This is unfortunate, because "Darkness" is something almost unique in the suspense ...

Circle of Deceit

Bruno Ganz, Hanna Schygulla

Kino Video, 2004

Life in wartime . . .
Made by German director Volker Schlondorff shortly after his Academy Award winning "The Tin Drum," this film plunged his crew and cast into the middle of Beirut during the civil war that had been raging there for six years. In the film, he attempts to comprehend the ...

Buffet Froid

Gérard Depardieu, Bernard Blier

Fox Lorber, 1998

A buñuelian film noir
In the best tradition of the sarcasticc, ironic and devasting spirit of Luis Buñuel's filmography (and obviously a Billy Wilder's touch), the film runs by its own with a masterful plot brilliant travels and remarkable performances. Blier made a film absolutely free of ...

Monsieur Vincent

Pierre Fresnay, Aimé Clariond

Lions Gate, 2008

Monsieur Vincent
An old, unretouched film- just as I remember it. A moving portrayal of a man who's name is a household word, but who's life is largely unknown. It drives home the fact, relentlessly, that if the burden of poverty is great, the burden of those who seek to remedy it is ...

My Mother's Castle

Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel

MGM (Video & DVD), 2002

a beautiful and heartfelt sequel to LA GLOIRE DE MON PERE (MY FATHER'S GLORY).......
I first saw this sequel many years ago in French class and it was probably one of the most beautiful pieces of poetry set to film that I had ever seen. For those of you unfamiliar with the first in this two part film series, I really reccomend that you watch LA GLOIRE ...

Sorceress (English Language Version)
Tcheky Karyo, Christine Boisson

Lara Classics, Inc., 1987

SORCERESS tells the suspenseful tale of how the Dominican friar Etienne de Bourbon, a Church inquisitor, comes to a small French village searching for heretics and encounters the beautiful, mysterious forest woman Elda. The villagers respect Elda for her prowess as a healer. They have faith in her knowledge of medicinal plants and herbs and her ...

Any Number Can Win

Jean Gabin, Alain Delon

Image Entertainment, 2000

Henri Verneuil in one of their best works!
Verneuil was a gifted french director and obviously he couldn't escape from the New Wave influence. Sooner or later he should make a film who woul express that sense of hopeless and disturbing underground bits of fate. In this bitter movie about two enchanting thieves ...

Germinal [Region 2]

Miou-Miou, Renaud (II)

SIX STARS
This is one of the great ones. Every bit as riveting as "Shindler's List", it is not about the Jews and The Holocaust, but a less immediate cause - coal miners in France in 1884. Deserves to be one of France's top ten films of all time. Costing $30 million, it's ...

Germinal

Miou-Miou, Renaud (II)

Sony Pictures, 1996

SIX STARS
This is one of the great ones. Every bit as riveting as "Shindler's List", it is not about the Jews and The Holocaust, but a less immediate cause - coal miners in France in 1884. Deserves to be one of France's top ten films of all time. Costing $30 million, it's ...

Arthur Cohn Presents (American Dream/Behind the Sun/Black and White in Color/A Brief Vacation/Central ...
Fernanda Montenegro, Vinícius de Oliveira

Homevision, 2004

In the history of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Arthur Cohn has received more Oscars® than any other producer. He is the only foreign film producer to have a star on the Hollywood walk of fame. Home Vision Entertainment is proud to present this unique collection of highly acclaimed films produced by the legendary Arthur Cohn, ...

The Holes

Michel Serrault, Philippe Noiret

Bci / Eclipse, 2002

a cavalcade of great actors makes this one worth seeing
Scripted by rené gossiny (co-creator of astérix), this movie retains a cartoonish quality through it's storyline and situations. In short the story revolves around a secret society living in the vast Paris underground , having forsaken the surface dwellers. this new ...