DVD: Michel Bouquet

DVD: Michel Bouquet

DVD:

Michel Bouquet

Jean Reno, Ryoko Hirosue

Sony Pictures, 2003

Love this movie
I really enjoyed this movie, and have been looking for the soundtrack for years! Will say this though--it's better to watch with the subtitles, with the original actors' voices. Jean Reno does his voice in the dubbed version though so if all you can find is the ...

Night and Fog - Criterion Collection

Michel Bouquet, Reinhard Heydrich

Criterion, 2003

A caveat . . .
I've noted that a number of reviewers mention seeing Night and Fog in a high school class. I think one would have to be very careful about using this film in high school. This is not simply because it is very graphic. If it is the ONLY film about the Holocaust that ...

Night Flight from Moscow

Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda

Pathfinder Home Ent., 2003

Spy vs Spy
Better than average Cold War "Spy vs. Spy" thriller....good cast and story line.......Caution...much of the background conversations are in foreign languages...French, Russian, etc....there are subtitles but don't expect all the dialog to be in English....otherwise ...

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 ...

Malpertuis

Orson Welles, Susan Hampshire

Barrel, 2007

"Life, what is it but a dream?" - Lewis Carroll
The directors cut Amazon provides a thorough plot explanation so i won't go over it again, however what exactly is Malpertuis? In Film Comment's July/August 2007 issue it earns there Editor's pick of the month, Gavin Smith says to try to "imagine a hammer movie ...

The Unfaithful Wife (La Femme infidèle)

Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet

Pathfinder Home Ent., 2003

The Unfaithful Wife
Murder maestro Chabrol is one of the heralded French New Wave directors whose intelligent twists on genre (thrillers are his domain) ushered in an exciting new era in filmmaking. In "Wife," he offers a fresh take on the standard crime-of-passion tale, with the intense ...

Mississippi Mermaid

Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Deneuve

MGM (Video & DVD), 2001

Truffaut's best Hitchcock film
People who put a Lonely Heart's ad in the newspaper are often idealists: they try to put into a few words everything they are and expect. The exchange of letters is full of hope. Louis Mahe (Jean Paul Belmondo) is so affected by Julie Roussell's letters that he ...

Monsieur Vincent

Pierre Fresnay, Aimé Clariond

Lions Gate, 2008

Truly a classic.
Although awareness of this film is rather minimal today, it deservedly won an Academy Award in 1948 as Best Foreign Film. Rather than sickingly sweet, as so many films with a religious motif tend to be (e.g. "Brother Sun, Sister Moon"), this one has a grit, irony, and ...

All the Mornings of the World (Tous les matins du monde) Two-Disc Edition

Jean-Pierre Marielle, Gérard Depardieu

Koch Lorber Films, 2006

All the Mornings of the World
Corneau's sublime meditation on music as all-consuming force is exquisitely realized, with outstanding set and costume design and jaw-dropping cinematography. Depardieu "pere et fils" both excel as Marais, but veteran player Marielle steals the show as St. Colombe, the ...

The Eye of Vichy

Michel Bouquet, Brian Cox

FIRST RUN FEATURES, 2003

A nation without shame
Admittedly this film is propaganda produced during an occupation by fascist Germany, but it is very educational in explaining why more Americans were probably killed by the French during WWII than were saved by them. But this film shows us what the Vichy government was ...

Who's Got the Black Box?

Michel Bouquet, Steve Eckhardt

Pathfinder Home Ent., 2005

Du Chabrol solide
Une bonne histoire policiere confirmant que Chabrol est bien notre Hitchcock francais. Maitre de sa camera, Chabrol nous donne un film intéressant et bien construit. Certes il a fait mieux (surtout quand il s'attaque a la bourgeoisie francaise-son sujet de ...

Red Lights

Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Carole Bouquet

Fox Lorber, 2005

Unsettling road trip thriller from France
Based on a novel by "Maigret" author Georges Simenon, "Red Lights" is both a moody and tense psychological thriller--and the study of a marriage under pressure--set within the claustrophobic confines of a car trip. Antoine (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) is a quiet and ...

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 ...

The Kimstim Collection: Cop au Vin

Jean Poiret, Stéphane Audran

Kino Video, 2005

Cop Au Vin
More aptly titled "Poulet Au Vinaigre" (Chicken With Vinegar) in France, this quintessential Chabrol whodunit is indeed a pungently sour portrayal of the deadly intrigues that can hatch in seemingly close-knit, placid communities. Extremely well-played, with Poiret a ...