87% (2) We Won't Grow Old Together 110 min, Not Rated, [Drama] [Maurice Pialat] [07 Sep 1972]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 74%, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win & 1 nomination.
Actors: Christine Fabréga, Jean Yanne, Marlène Jobert, Patricia Pierangeli
Writer: Maurice Pialat (based on the novel by)
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: French Country: France, Italy
Plot: Jean has been married to Francoise for years, but his relationship with his wife has been all but over for a long time. She's hardly ever around, always traveling to Russia for work, and she drifts in and out of the film as well, reflecting the ephemeral nature of their marriage.
Rotten Tomatoes: This powerful romantic drama examines the final period of a long and ultimately unhappy affair. Jean (Jean Yanne) is an unpleasant, domineering man. Though he still lives with his wife, their marriage has been over for a long time. For six years, Jean has had an affair with the much-younger Catherine (Marlene Jobert). The dynamic of their relationship is moving it toward disintegration also, but Catherine resists it. Scenes of alternating recriminations and reconciliations unveil the anatomy of their breakup. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
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84% (2) Weekend 105 min, Not Rated, [Adventure, Comedy, Drama] [Jean-Luc Godard] [27 Sep 1968]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 73%, Rotten Tomatoes: 96%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win & 3 nominations.
Actors: Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Karl Marx, Mireille Darc
Writer: Jean-Luc Godard
External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: French Country: France, Italy
Plot: A supposedly idyllic week-end trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
Rotten Tomatoes: Jean-Luc Godard's scathing late-sixties satire is one of cinema's great anarchic works. Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a petit-bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them. Featuring a justly famous centerpiece single take of an endless traffic jam, Weekend is a surreally funny and deeply disturbing expression of social oblivion that ended the first phase of Godard's career - and, according to the credits, cinema itself.
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83% (2) This Man Must Die 110 min, GP, [Drama, Thriller] [Claude Chabrol] [20 Oct 1970]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 79%, Rotten Tomatoes: 88%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win.
Actors: Anouk Ferjac, Caroline Cellier, Jean Yanne, Michel Duchaussoy
Writer: Nicholas Blake (novel), Claude Chabrol (dialogue), Paul Gégauff (dialogue), Claude Chabrol (screenplay), Paul Gégauff (screenplay)
External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: French Country: France, Italy
Plot: Single father obsessed with murdering the hit&run driver who killed his only child, poses as a screenwriter to get close to an actress who was in the death car. He feels fully prepared to kill the pretty young woman if she was the driver, but as his knowledge of her family grows, so does his empathy for them.
Rotten Tomatoes: Claude Chabrol directs the tense psychological thriller Que la Bête Meure (This Man Must Die). When his young son is the victim of a hit-and-run car accident, writer Charles Thenier (Michel Duchaussoy) is determined to find the killer. Obsessed with avenging his son's death, he carefully records his thoughts in a diary. He travels to Paris and meets actress Helene Lanson (Caroline Cellier), who is a prime witness to the accident. After they start up a love affair, he discovers that the driver of the car was her brother-in-law, Paul Decourt (Jean Yanne). Paul also owns the auto repair shop that fixed up the car after the accident. Believing Paul is the killer, Charles befriends his son Phillipe Decourt (Marc Di Napoli). As it happens, Phillipe also wants Paul dead for his own reasons. Charles manages to get invited to the family's seaside home in Brittany in order to finally get his revenge, but things don't work out according to plan.
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71% (2) Indochine 159 min, PG-13, [Drama, Romance, War] [Régis Wargnier] [23 Dec 1992]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 71%, Rotten Tomatoes: 72%, External Reviews
Awards: Won 1 Oscar. Another 11 wins & 12 nominations.
Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Yanne, Linh Dan Pham, Vincent Perez
Writer: Erik Orsenna (original scenario & adaptation and dialogue), Louis Gardel (original scenario & adaptation and dialogue), Catherine Cohen (original scenario & adaptation and dialogue), Régis Wargnier (original scenario & adaptation and dialogue)
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: French, Vietnamese Country: France
Plot: This story is set in 1930, at the time when French colonial rule in Indochina is ending. A widowed French woman who works in the rubber fields, raises a Vietnamese princess as if she was her own daughter. She, and her daughter both fall in love with a young French navy officer, which will change both their lives significantly.
Rotten Tomatoes: Set in French Indochina during the politically turbulent 1930s, Regis Wargnier's film stars Catherine Deneuve as a plantation owner who becomes involved in a torrid love triangle between a handsome French soldier (Vincent Pérez) and her beloved adopted Asian daughter (Linh Dam Phan). Won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film.
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70% (2) Madame Bovary 143 min, PG-13, [Drama, Romance] [Claude Chabrol] [25 Dec 1991]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 67%, Rotten Tomatoes: 73%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 2 nominations.
Actors: Christophe Malavoy, Isabelle Huppert, Jean Yanne, Jean-François Balmer
Writer: Gustave Flaubert (based on the novel by), Claude Chabrol (adaptation)
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: French Country: France
Plot: In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire (Emma Rouault) marries a dull country doctor (Charles Bovary). To escape boredom, she throws herself into love ...
Rotten Tomatoes: Literary critics long regarded Gustave Flaubert's iconic French novel Madame Bovary as unfilmable (despite several attempts by Vincente Minnelli and others to bring it to the screen), but Nouvelle Vague architect Claude Chabrol set out to definitively prove them wrong with this Oscar-nominated feature adaptation from 1991, starring Isabelle Huppert (The Lacemaker). Huppert stars as Emma Bovary, a woman whose happiness depends exclusively on elements outside of herself. She spends her days indulging in flights of fancy and endless romantic longings, emotionally estranged from her good-natured but ignorant husband Charles (Jean-François Balmer) a physician whom she married as an escape from her landowner father's farm. Her fate seems poised to change when she meets and falls hard for Rodolphe Boulanger (Christophe Malavoy) - a lover who takes her to bed and then vows to elope with her. Pinning all of her hopes on this, she invests in a traveling costume that she's unable to afford (rendering herself completely in debt with a local millner), and plans to skip town with Rodolphe when the monies come due. Alas, Rodolphe, as it turns out, never planned to follow through with the elopement plans, and promptly abandons Emma, leaving her to face the dire consequences of her foolish decisions.
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64% (1) Attention bandits! 111 min, [Drama] [Claude Lelouch] [03 Jun 1987]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 64%, External Reviews
Actors: Charles Gérard, Jean Yanne, Marie-Sophie L., Patrick Bruel
Writer: Claude Lelouch (original scenario), Claude Lelouch (adaptation), Pierre Uytterhoeven (adaptation)
External Links: IMDb Language: French Country: France
Plot: On the day Jean Gabin dies, a kidnaper who also takes a fortune in jewels heisted from Cartiers murders Simon Verini's wife. (Simon was fencing the jewels for a youthful gang who robbed Cartiers; he suspects them of the murder.) He's framed for the theft and spends ten years in prison, writing to his daughter, Marie-Sophie, who's 11 when he's sent away. Released, he reconnects to Marie-Sophie and to the young thieves, seeks revenge, and is quickly arrested again. She doesn't know what to make of her father, retreats to her Swiss fiancé, and is flummoxed when one of the young thieves falls for her. Is resolution possible when crime cuts across families and romance?
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