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Les Femmes et Les Hommes

“…she is looking at him, and he is looking at his audience…” A friend, a fine writer and translator, Allison…

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Surprises in France

Nicolas Sarkozy, the newly elected President of France, who famously courted Jean Le Pen, the extreme right winger, during the…

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Chabrol’s Eye on the Eye of Vichy

Claude Chabrol (and here and here,) one of the founders of French New Wave Cinema and director of some 50…

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Army of Crime — Immigrants Who Fought for France, A Film

My dear Melinée, my beloved little orphan, In a few hours I will no longer be of this world. We…

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Potiche – Trophy Wife, a frothy French Labor Film

We took a flyer last night on Potiche – Trophy Wife, based on Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu being the leads.…

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Inch’ Allah Dimanche: Algerian Immigrants to France

Immigration is big in the news these days – mostly the opposition to it–  around the world.  It is absolutely…

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The Red and The Black: Love and Ambition in a time of Revolution

If it has been years since you attended to Stendhal’s great novel, The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of…

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The French Resistance, A Priest and Dammed Desire

Updated at * below… Jean-Pierre Melville, whose well-regarded noir gangster film are on every Francophile or film-buff’s list of must-sees,…

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Under Fire: A French Novel of WW I Trenches

Although All Quiet on the Western Front is the best known, and possibly the best written, novel of soldiers at…

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Andre Malraux — Man in his Violence

Andre Malraux was the quintessential adventurer-intellectual of the between the World War years.  Man’s Hope was on 1960s high school…

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Translation: What Goes Missing in Love

As an excursion away from politics and the mysteries of man’s love-affairs with war I picked up an old classic,…

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Chabrol’s Eye on the Eye of Vichy

Claude Chabrol (and here and here,) one of the founders of French New Wave Cinema and director of some 50…

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Army of Crime — Immigrants Who Fought for France, A Film

My dear Melinée, my beloved little orphan, In a few hours I will no longer be of this world. We…

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Potiche – Trophy Wife, a frothy French Labor Film

We took a flyer last night on Potiche – Trophy Wife, based on Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu being the leads.…

View Article

Inch’ Allah Dimanche: Algerian Immigrants to France

Immigration is big in the news these days – mostly the opposition to it–  around the world.  It is absolutely…

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The Red and The Black: Love and Ambition in a time of Revolution

If it has been years since you attended to Stendhal’s great novel, The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of…

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The French Resistance, A Priest and Dammed Desire

Updated at * below… Jean-Pierre Melville, whose well-regarded noir gangster film are on every Francophile or film-buff’s list of must-sees,…

View Article


Under Fire: A French Novel of WW I Trenches

  Although All Quiet on the Western Front is the best known, and possibly the best written, novel of soldiers…

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Andre Malraux — Man in his Violence

Andre Malraux was the quintessential adventurer-intellectual of the between the World War years.  Man’s Hope was on 1960s high school…

View Article

Translation: What Goes Missing in Love

As an excursion away from politics and the mysteries of man’s love-affairs with war I picked up an old classic,…

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