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French Film Festival · 2018

French Film Festival 2018

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4 films · 2 reviews

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Cyrano de Bergerac

Review preview for Cyrano de Bergerac

Jean-Paul Rappeneau has taken the spirit of Edmond Rostand's play and filled it to overflowing with energy, rumbustiousness, eloquence and panache.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
Superior retelling - in verse - of the classic romance.

(Country: France; Year: 1990; Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau; Writer: Jean-Claude Carriere, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, based on the play by Edmond Rostand; Stars: Gerard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez, Jacques Weber, Roland Bertin, Philippe Morier-Genoud, Pierre Maguelon)

La Grande Illusion (The Grand Illusion)

Review preview for La Grande Illusion

The script sears like a whip-crack, with one-liners peppering the action, yet never getting in the way of the film’s emotional depth.

Amber Wilkinson · 5 out of 5
French prisoners in the First World War plot a series of escapes. Currently out to own as part of the seven-disc Jean Renoir Collection.

(Country: France; Year: 1937; Director: Jean Renoir; Writer: Jean Renoir, Charles Spaak; Stars: Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Eric von Stroheim, Marcel Dalio, Julien Carrette, Dita Parlo, Georges Péclet, Jean Dasté, Sylvain Itkine, Gaston Modot, Werner Florian)

The Truth (La verite)

Drama follows a woman on trial for murder

(Country: France, Italy; Year: 1960; Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot; Writer: Henri-Georges Clouzot, Simone Drieu, Michèle Perrein, Jérôme Géronimi, Christiane Rochefort, Véra Clouzot; Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Sami Frey, Marie-José Nat, Jean-Loup Reynold, André Oumansky, Claude Berri, Jacques Perrin, Barbara Sommers, Louis Seigner, Raymond Meunier, René Blancard, Paul Bonifas, Hubert de Lapparent)

The Unvanquished

Against a background of the Algerian War of the 1960s, a deserter from the French Foreign Legion is on the run from the authorities.

(Country: France, Italy; Year: 1964; Director: Alain Cavalier; Writer: Alain Cavalier, Jean Cau; Stars: Alain Delon, Lea Massari, Georges Géret, Maurice Garrel, Robert Castel, Viviane Attia, Robert Bazil, Paul Pavel, Camille de Casabianca, Alain Cavalier, Pierre Collet, Edith Garnier, Guy Laroche, Laure Paillette, Alain Delon)