Les Femmes et Les Hommes
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View ArticlePotiche – Trophy Wife, a frothy French Labor Film
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View ArticleInch’ Allah Dimanche: Algerian Immigrants to France
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View ArticleThe 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…
View ArticleThe French Resistance, A Priest and Dammed Desire
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View ArticleUnder 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…
View ArticleAndre 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 ArticleTranslation: 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,…
View ArticleChabrol’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…
View ArticleArmy 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…
View ArticlePotiche – 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 ArticleInch’ 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…
View ArticleThe 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…
View ArticleThe 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 ArticleUnder 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…
View ArticleAndre 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 ArticleTranslation: 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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