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7 reviews
Mathieu Kassovitz, Anouk Grinberg

New Yorker Video, 1998

"The best lives are invented ones. I forget who said that. Perhaps it was me?"
Thus claims Jean-Louis Trintignant in one of the brief modern-day 'interviews' in Jacques Audiard's wryly amusing and constantly engaging Un Heros Tres Discret/A Self-Made Hero. The main body of the film follows Matthieu Kassovitz's Albert Dehousse, Trintignant's younger self, an innocuous underachiever dreaming of heroic acts he never gets the chance to carry out who is devastated when he ...

A Man and a Woman--20 Years Later [VHS]

6 reviews
Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant

Warner Home Video, 1998

Does it really need to take 20 years!
Finally ... a happy ending after 2 decades! I found this sequel a week after the original and was glad to see a happy ending. Love doesn't die and can persist no matter how many years, activities, distractions, and justifications you come up with. When the old lovers are reunited they actually don't mess it up this time! A happy ending is rare in French films. Watch this and weep. Great to watch ...

Dangerous Liaisons 1960 [VHS]

5 reviews
Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Philipe

Interama Video Classics, 1990

A Masterpiece from Roger Vadim?! Was it possible?! Yes!
This one is up there with Stephen Frears' version starring Glen Close and John Malkovich and is in some ways even better. Most of Vadim's films are laughed at today and people tend to throw this one in with the rest, which is a mistake. Chaderlos de Laclos' sensibility is very close to what Vadim imagined himself to be at the time, or at least was striving for, before he sold-out and became a ...

A Man and a Woman [VHS]

75 reviews
Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant

Warner Home Video, 1994

just like old vintage
I never watched this movie before, loved the music score from paul mauriat collection. I finally got a copy of this movie and watch it with my wife, the movie is not about plot but it is about mannerism, a great study of human, man and woman, how they react to the situation of love in their own circumstances, in this case it's hers as a widow and his widower. Don't look for great plot, drama ...

Rendez-Vous [VHS]

15 reviews
Lambert Wilson, Juliette Binoche

Connoisseur Video, 1993

A beautiful, sexy, art-film!
Rendez-vous is a beautiful, sexy, art-film. It won several prestigious international awards and is critically acclaimed. Juliette Binoche is completely uninhibited and gives a brave, fearless performance where she bares herself completely...both emotionally and physically. Thus, this film is not intended for the immature. Those with childish minds who cannot handle looking at a beautiful ...

Ernesto Che Guevara, The Bolivian Diary [VHS]

4 reviews
Christine Boisson, Susanne-Marie Wrage

Fox Lorber, 1998

Great footage of Che's final journey
Following the Bolivian trails where Che fought his last battles is quite moving. This documentary wore me out both emotionally, and in some strange way, physically. Included in this film are photos of Che's original diary. Also included were interviews with people who met him during the Bolivian struggle. The most impressive interview was with a village schoolteacher who had a conversation with ...

Z [VHS]

45 reviews
Yves Montand, Irene Papas

Fox Lorber, 1997

Why subtitles?
I have been a fan of this film since I first saw it as a teenager, even got the sound track on record then, and still have. However as I recall, back in 69, the film was dubbed into English, which made it easier to follow. (also another fave is "That Man From Rio" also dubbed for the US, NOT on Criterion, or any US DVDs yet), so since the spoken language was a dubbed English, a better connection ...

My Night at Maud's (Sub) [VHS]

19 reviews
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian

Fox Lorber, 1996

THE FOURTH MORAL TALE
Like the other moral tales by Rohmer "Ma nuit chez Maud" deals with human relationships, love and sex, but is a little bit more serious than the other moral tales. The protagonist hopes to find a candidate to become his wife. He accidentally meets Maud and they spend the night together dicussing religion, love and sex. Next morning he meets a girl who he will marry. Rohmer sees life as series ...

Passione D'amore [VHS]

4 reviews
Bernard Giraudeau, Valeria D'Obici

Kino International, 1994

Obsessive love
This is one of the truly great films--if not the greatest--about obsessive love. Based on a short novel of the same name by Igino Tarchetti, it is one of the unsung masterpieces of Italian film. In 19th century Italy, a strikingly handsome officer is sent far from his home town, also the site of his mistress, an extremely beautiful married woman played by Laura Antonelli. His new quarters ...

The Battle of Austerlitz

1 review
Pierre Mondy, Martine Carol

USA Home Video

Brilliant Sunrise at Austerlitz !!
This film was made by the French director Abel Ganze in the late-1950s. All subtitled in english, but it is interesting to note that the Russian commanders speak in their native tounge. Orson Welles has a very small part as Robert Fulton, the American inventor, who tells an incredulous Napoleon of his idea for steam-powered ships. Also a wonderful cameo performance by Jack Palance as General ...

Red [VHS]

58 reviews
Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant

Miramax, 1996

Red's A Classic and Ties Up the Trilogy Nicely
Red is the color of Franternite - Fraternity, of human relationships and being with people. A lonely model whose boyfriend is away accidentally hits a dog with her car and becomes attached to the dog after his owner rejects him-apparently. What she finds is a an embittered aging judge who uses a receiver to listen in on his neighbors and doesn't have a belief in people. The two become close ...

Les Violons Du Bal [VHS]

2 reviews
Yves Afonso, Guido Alberti

Connoisseur Video, 1996

One of the Greatest French Films Made
The contrasting visuals of a technicolor film (which takes place in the auteur's past) and a film about him trying to make that same film (shot not in black-and-white but in video) are combined brilliantly in this movie. Much humor is derived from the "business aspects" of making a film about his Jewish family's life in France before and during the time Nazis occupied it. This is a story ...

Cinema Europe - The Other Hollywood [VHS]

11 reviews
Kenneth Branagh, Jean-Louis Trintignant

Cinema Guild, 1998

Brilliant documentary on early film
Brownlow & Gill's documentary series was originally broadcast in 1996 by the BBC to celebrate 100 years of cinema. Not only is it incredibly interesting as a history lesson but top marks must go to the archive researchers who have dug up some incredibly rare footage (such as Dietrich's screen test for THE BLUE ANGEL). All 6 episodes are on this 1 disc and although there are no extras, you do get ...

Ramparts of Clay [VHS]

1 review
Leila Shenna, Kricheche

Columbia/Tri-Star, 1991

a great movie.
one of the greatest movies ever made.A very sensitive and realistic docu-drama, shot with extreme creativity that is touching and makes you think.

The Outside Man [VHS]

3 reviews
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ann-Margret

MGM (Video & DVD), 1998

Ironic clash of cultures - a good suspense story
This is a movie about how the French saw California in the early seventies. Jean-Louis Trintignant, one of the most famous French actors then and now, is a contract killer, flown into Los Angeles from Paris for a one day job. After having dutyfully executed his victim, he finds out that his luggage and passport are gone and that an American hitman is after him (our hero is lucky that this other ...

Confidentially Yours [VHS]

10 reviews
Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant

Fox Lorber, 1999

The end of the line, and a great "entertainment"
It's fitting that Francois Truffaut's final movie before his death should pay direct homage to the one director he admired above all others: Alfred Hitchcock. This is a murder mystery in the tradition of the master, right down to the little comic touches; even the love story is straight Hitchcock. The story is too complicated to actually summarize, but it begins with a man being shot while ...

The Conformist (Dubbed) [VHS]

69 reviews
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli

Paramount Home Video, 2002

Simply one of the best film ever made
I cannot do much to elaborate on the fine prior reviews here, except to say that Georges Delerue's spare score is integral and haunting. It may be cinematographer Storaro's crowning achievement as a lense-man, Dominique Sanda's best outing, the classiest incorporation of Art Nouveau and Deco into a film, and, moreover, might be Bertolucci's most cohesive, unified work. It's simply, forgive ...

Les Biches (Sub) [VHS]

10 reviews
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacqueline Sassard

Jack H. Harris Enterprises, 2003

Handsome Does
Many American reviewers (though not all, thankfully) seem completely baffled by this wonderful sample of French sense and sensibility. Some think it is funny. I couldn't detect anything funny about it. Some say it is not erotic. To me it seemed exceptionally erotic. Others find it dull and boring. Tant pis for them. Occasionally Chabrol is said to be "The French Hitchcock". However, the ...

Confidentially Yours [VHS]

10 reviews
Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant

Fox Lorber, 1998

The end of the line, and a great "entertainment"
It's fitting that Francois Truffaut's final movie before his death should pay direct homage to the one director he admired above all others: Alfred Hitchcock. This is a murder mystery in the tradition of the master, right down to the little comic touches; even the love story is straight Hitchcock. The story is too complicated to actually summarize, but it begins with a man being shot while ...