DVD: Jean-Claude Brialy

DVD: Jean-Claude Brialy

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Jean-Claude Brialy

Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil

Miramax, 2003

Unforgettable
I've seen this movie three times; it is one of my favorite historical films. And it really puts the kibbosh on any romantic yearnings for medieval times! Harsh, brutal, bloody and absolutely believable, even if it does take some liberties with facts, who cares? This is ...

La Ronde
Jane Fonda, Anna Karina

KINO VIDEO, 2005

GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINEE (BEST FOREIGN FILM) Adapted by Tony winning playwright Jean Anouilh (Becket), Roger Vadim's La Ronde deftly transplants Arthur Schnitzler's famous amorous cycle from 19th Century Vienna to a lavishly re-created widescreen Art Nouveau Paris. Vadim's cast includes Jean Luc Godard muse Anna Karina and The Phantom of Liberty's ...

Phantom of Liberty - Criterion Collection

Adriana Asti, Jenny Astruc

Criterion, 2005

Genius, surreal absurdity that somehow makes perfect sense
Ok, how can you adequately review this film? Here's one scene-- A mysterious stranger is eyeballing a couple of little kids at the park. As a present for being such lovely little girls, he secretly gives them some "beautiful photographs" and instructs them not to ...

The Count of Monte Cristo

Gérard Depardieu, Ornella Muti

Koch Lorber Films, 2005

This is the best
This is a most enjoyable and satisfying presentation. Fine acting all around. An erudite and absorbing script. A French production ensuring and delivering authentic settings, costumes, art direction. The seven hour run time allows a viewer to wallow in the story, ...

The 400 Blows - Criterion Collection

Luc Andrieux, Patrick Auffay

Criterion, 2006

Unforgettable
The 400 Blows is a film that, many say, predated Elia Kazan's East of Eden. The 400 Blows came out in 1959; French director Francois Truffaut directed the film, which follows the difficult existence--both at home and at school--of a very young boy, Antoine (Jean Pierre ...

A Woman is a Woman - Criterion Collection

Jean-Claude Brialy, Anne Collette

Criterion, 2004

A Woman is a Woman
Half musical, half madcap New Wave romantic comedy, Godard's highbrow take on a beloved Hollywood tradition remains dazzling not because of the musical sequences, which are jokey and deliberately amateurish, but because of Karina's refreshingly impetuous presence. ...

The Bride Wore Black

Jeanne Moreau, Michel Bouquet

MGM (Video & DVD), 1999

A wonderful Hitchcockian black comedy of murder and revenge by Truffaut, starring Jeanne Moreau
Truffaut said The Bride Wore Black was his homage to Hitchcock. A great homage it is, with that Bernard Herrmann score, murderous psychological ambiguity, bad things happening on warm, sunlit days and a complex -- and looney -- main character. Think of it as a black ...

Claire's Knee

Jean-Claude Brialy, Aurora Cornu

Fox Lorber, 1998

Join the cast
An Eric Rohmer film is not a typical film by US standards, or by European stardards either. But it's a very interesting piece of entertainment, at least very beautiful to see. The story in Claire's Knee is very simple, but even if it was more ambitious or ...

King Of Hearts

Jacques Balutin, Alan Bates

MGM (Video & DVD), 2001

King of Hearts: The message is in the madness.
Let me add my voice to the chorus of reviews singing praise for Philippe de Broca's King of Hearts (Le Roi de Coeur). After apprenticing with legendary French film directors Henri Decoin, Claude Chabrol, and François Truffaut, de Broca made eight or nine films in the ...

Les Uns et les Autres (Bolero)

Robert Hossein, Nicole Garcia

Image Entertainment, 2003

Amazing,sweeping,overwhelming if not somewhat confusing!
Every film that I have ever seen that has dealt with pre WW2 and the during and after effects all combined together in this amazing and sweeping epic film LES UNS ET LES AUTRES (roughly translated "These people and the other people") and released in America under the ...

As Luck Would Have It

Jean-Claude Brialy, Sabine Haudepin

Picture This! Home Video, 2005

A Warm, Sensitive, Genteel Human Comedy
'Le Hasard Fait Bien Les Choses' (AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT) is a thoroughly surprising film. The marketing ploy makes this very well written (Julie Gilbert and Philippe Le Dem) and well directed (Lorenzo Gabriele) seem to be something it is not - a flashy fleshy gay ...

One Hundred and One Nights

Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni

Fox Lorber, 2000

If you don't love movies, don't see this one...
But if you DO love movies, well, the more you love and appreciate them, the more you will love and appreciate this one! This is an AMAZING homage to movies and to the role they play in our lives. It is boundless in its imagination, wit and charm, and it balances ...

The Count of Monte Cristo Collection (Miniseries)

Gérard Depardieu, Ornella Muti

Fox Lorber, 2000

One of my favorites!
I bought this DVD set back in 2000 when it first came out after seeing the original miniseries aired on Bravo. The scenery is spectacular, the acting is well-done and it remains fairly faithful to the original. If anything was changed, it was to streamline the story ...

The Monster

Roberto Benigni, Michel Blanc

Sony Pictures, 1999

"Loris...a normal name. It warms the heart..."
The Monster, or Il Mostro as it is called in Italian, is about a man named Loris who is by no means a decent human being. He steals, he lies, he cheats his landlord out of potential buyers of his apartment (yet he won't pay the rent). He places supermarket items on ...

Mortelle Randonnee

Michel Serrault, Isabelle Adjani

Fox Lorber, 2003

20 ans que J'appelle au secours et persone n'est jamais venu
Pourquoi avoir enlevé le titre original "L'Oeil". Serrault en detective implacable voit tout, surtout ce qu'il veut voir. La tendresse infinie envers sa petite fille inconue se reporte sur une nyphomane desaxée qui tue. Il la suit, la protège et assume destin et ...