71% (3) A Cat in Paris 70 min, PG, [Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family] [Jean-Loup Felicioli, Alain Gagnol] [15 Dec 2010]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 69%, Rotten Tomatoes: 83%, Metacritic: 63%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 5 nominations.
Actors: Bernadette Lafont, Bruno Salomone, Dominique Blanc, Jean Benguigui
Writer: Alain Gagnol (screenplay), Jacques-Rémy Girerd (dialogue), Alain Gagnol (dialogue)
External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: French Country: France, Belgium
Plot: Dino is a cat that leads a double life. By day, he lives with Zoe, a little girl whose mother, Jeanne, is a police officer. By night, he works with Nico, a burglar with a big heart. Zoe has plunged herself into silence following her father's murder at the hands of gangster Costa. One day, Dino the cat brings Zoe a very valuable bracelet. Lucas, Jeanne's second-in-command, notices this bracelet is part of a jewelery collection that has been stolen. One night, Zoe decides to follow Dino. On the way, she overhears some gangsters and discovers that her nanny is part of the gangsters' team.
Rotten Tomatoes: Dino is a pet cat that leads a double life. By day he lives with Zoe, a little mute girl whose mother, Jeanne, is a detective in the Parisian police force. But at night he sneaks out the window to work with Nico - a slinky cat burglar with a big heart, whose fluid movements are poetry in motion - as he evades captors and slips and swishes from rooftop to rooftop across the Paris skyline. The cat's two worlds collide when young Zoe decides to follow Dino on his nocturnal adventures - and falls into the hands of Victor Costa, a blustery gangster planning the theft of a rare statue.Now cat and cat burglar must team up to save Zoe from the bumbling thieves, leading to a thrilling acrobatic finale on top of Notre Dame. -- (C) GKIDS
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88% (2) The Mother and the Whore 210 min, [Drama, Romance] [Jean Eustache] [17 May 1973]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 81%, Rotten Tomatoes: 96%, External Reviews
Awards: 3 wins & 1 nomination.
Actors: Bernadette Lafont, Françoise Lebrun, Isabelle Weingarten, Jean-Pierre Léaud
Writer: Jean Eustache (scenario and dialogue)
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: French Country: France
Plot: In Paris, the pedantic Alexandre lives with his mate Marie in her apartment, an open relationship. Alexandre, who is idle and chauvinist, spends his days reading, drinking and shagging women. After flirting with his former affair, Gilberte, who tells him that she will marry soon her boyfriend, Alexandre meets the Laenne Hospital nurse Veronika Osterwald and they schedule a date. Alexandre learns that Veronika is a promiscuous woman that loves to shag and introduces her to Marie. They have a threesome and Alexandre has a crush on Veronika.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this intense character study, irresponsible Parisian Leaud decides that he desperately needs a wife and so leaves his lover to propose to his ex-girlfriend. His self-absorbed pseudo-intellectual ramblings turn her off, and she turns him down. He meets a nurse who later involves herself with Leaud and his lover.
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86% (2) Le Beau Serge 98 min, [Drama] [Claude Chabrol] [01 Jan 1959]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 72%, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews
Awards: 2 wins.
Actors: Bernadette Lafont, Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michèle Méritz
Writer: Claude Chabrol
External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: French Country: France
Plot: Francois comes back to his home village in France after more than a decade. He notices that the village hasn't changed much, but the people have, especially his old friend Serge who has become a drunkard. Francois now tries to find out what happened to him and tries to help him.
Rotten Tomatoes: Le Beau Serge was the first film of French critic-turned-director Claude Chabrol. Though not a murder melodrama, the film is heavily influenced by the works of Chabrol's idol Alfred Hitchcock, Shadow of a Doubt in particular. Ailing city dweller Francois (Jean-Claude Brialy) makes a therapeutic return visit to his home town in the country. Here he visits childhood friend Serge (Gerard Blain), and is appalled to find how far Serge has plummeted into alcoholism and self-pity. The two protagonists indulge in a transference of personal guilt, then an "exchange of redemption" (to quote Chabrol chronicler Charles Derry). Highly influential in the French New Wave movement of the 1950s, Le Beau Serge has something very special to say about the care and nurturing of friendship, especially one that has dimmed with distance and time. Both male stars, as well as leading lady Bernadette Lafont, would continue working with director Chabrol for the remainder of his career.
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78% (2) Les Bonnes Femmes 100 min, [Drama, Mystery, Romance] [Claude Chabrol] [22 Apr 1960]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 76%, Rotten Tomatoes: 80%, External Reviews
Actors: Bernadette Lafont, Clotilde Joano, Lucile Saint-Simon, Stéphane Audran
Writer: Paul Gégauff (scenario and dialogue), Claude Chabrol (adaptation)
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: French, Italian Country: France, Italy
Plot: Ginette, Rita, Jacqueline and Jane try to find fulfillment and love in their lives. Rita has a fiancé whose family is obsessed with social distinction; Jane has a boy-friend in the army, but does not hesitate to enjoy herself with chance encounters; Ginette has a mysterious passion that keeps her away from her colleagues at nights. Jacqueline is lonely; but who is that mysterious bike-rider who is constantly following her ?
Rotten Tomatoes: The four young women work at the same place and each has to put up with a lecherous supervisor who talks out of one side of his mouth about good morals while the other side has the opposite message. One of the women, Jane (Bernadette Lafont) fixes herself up in a somewhat vulgar manner and goes out to pick up men, which fails to produce any real love. Another wants to marry a man whose family runs a respectable store. Another sings -- incognito -- with a pop band, while the last, Jacqueline (Clothilde Joano) is pursued by a biker. The film details their doomed attempts to find romance.
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74% (2) Attila Marcel 106 min, G, [Comedy, Music] [Sylvain Chomet] [30 Oct 2013]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 70%, Rotten Tomatoes: 79%, External Reviews
Awards: 2 wins.
Actors: Anne Le Ny, Bernadette Lafont, Guillaume Gouix, Hélène Vincent
Writer: Sylvain Chomet
External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: French Country: France
Plot: Paul is a sweet man-child, raised - and smothered - by his two eccentric aunts in Paris since the death of his parents when he was a toddler. Now thirty-three, he still does not speak. (He does express himself through colorful suits that would challenge any Wes Anderson character in nerd chic.) Paul's aunts have only one dream for him: to win piano competitions. Although Paul practices dutifully, he remains unfulfilled until he submits to the interventions of his upstairs neighbor. Suitably named after the novelist, Madame Proust offers Paul a concoction that unlocks repressed memories from his childhood and awakens the most delightful of fantasies.
Rotten Tomatoes: Paul, a thirty something pianist, forms a bond with his eccentric neighbour who helps him unlock long buried memories, and the key to making his life his own.
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64% (1) Elise, or Real Life 104 min, [Drama] [Michel Drach] [25 Nov 1970]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 64%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 nomination.
Actors: Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Bisson, Marie-José Nat, Mohamed Chouikh
Writer: Michel Drach, Claire Etcherelli (novel), Claude Lanzmann
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: French Country: France, Algeria
Plot: In 1957, Elise Le Tellier, a young woman from Bordeaux, decides to join her brother Lucien, a revolutionary who has decided to become a worker instead of a notable. Lucien has secured a ...
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62% (1) Women in Prison 99 min, [Crime, Drama] [Charlotte Silvera] [12 Oct 1988]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 62%, External Reviews
Actors: Annie Girardot, Bernadette Lafont, Marie-Christine Barrault, Milva
Writer: Charlotte Silvera
External Links: IMDb Language: French Country: France
Plot: A women's prison. Women arrive, some for as long as eight years. They work making teddy bears. Dessombes, the head matron, misses little. She gets intelligence from Marthe, an older convict. When the uncompromising and difficult Nelly is sent to the hole for something she didn't do, the women suspect that Marthe had a hand in it. Brigitte breaks off their friendship, so Marthe adopts Nicole, guilty of infanticide and shunned by the other prisoners, as her surrogate daughter. Sabine, young, energetic, and one of the few with a husband who visits her, falls in love with Lucie, a woman who has given up on life and fears the day of her release. Tensions mount.
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