88% (2) A Gentle Woman 88 min, [Drama, Romance] [Robert Bresson] [27 May 1971]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 77%, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win.
Actors: Claude Ollier, Dominique Sanda, Guy Frangin, Jeanne Lobre
Writer: Fyodor Dostoevsky (from the short story by)
External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: French Country: France
Plot: A young woman kills herself, leaving no explanation to her grief-stricken pawnbroker husband. We learn in flashback about how they met, married, and how she failed to adapt her lifestyle to his. Disgusted with his attempts to dominate her, she considered murdering him, but found herself unable to do it...
Rotten Tomatoes: The original French title for Gentle Creature is Une Femme Douce. Both affectionate appellations refer to leading lady Dominique Sanda, a popular model of the 1960s, here making her film debut (Incredibly, she was chosen for the role by director Robert Bresson on the basis of her voice!) Sanda's first appearance is as a gorgeous corpse; she has committed suicide, and her pawnbroker husband (Guy Frangin) doesn't know why. It takes him nearly the entire movie to figure out what the audience has suspected all along: That the ravishing Dominique felt stifled by her husband's cloistered lifestyle. Gentle Creature was director Robert Bresson's first color film, and he proves himself as much a master with hues as he did in monochrome. Filmed in 1969, Gentle Creature was released in the U.S. in 1971, taking full advantage of Dominique Sanda's new international popularity. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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87% (2) The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 94 min, R, [Drama, History, War] [Vittorio De Sica] [16 Dec 1971]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 75%, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews
Awards: Won 1 Oscar. Another 10 wins & 3 nominations.
Actors: Dominique Sanda, Fabio Testi, Helmut Berger, Lino Capolicchio, Romolo Valli
Writer: Giorgio Bassani (novel), Vittorio Bonicelli, Ugo Pirro
External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: Italian Country: Italy, West Germany
Plot: In the late 1930s, in Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Contini are one of the leading families, wealthy, aristocratic, urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather a circle of friends for constant rounds of tennis and parties at their villa with its lovely grounds, keeping the rest of the world at bay. Into the circle steps Giorgio, a Jew from the middle class who falls in love with Micol. She seems to toy with him, and even makes love to one of his friends while she knows Giorgio is watching. While his love cannot seem to break through to her to draw her out of her garden idyll, the forces of politics close in.
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62% (2) 1900 317 min, Unrated, [Drama, History] [Bernardo Bertolucci] [04 Nov 1977]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 77%, Rotten Tomatoes: 47%, External Reviews
Awards: 2 wins & 4 nominations.
Actors: Dominique Sanda, Francesca Bertini, Gérard Depardieu, Robert De Niro
Writer: Franco Arcalli (screenplay by), Giuseppe Bertolucci (screenplay by), Bernardo Bertolucci (screenplay by)
External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: Italian Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Plot: Set in Italy, the film follows the lives and interactions of two boys/men, one born a bastard of peasant stock (Depardieu), the other born to a land owner (de Niro). The drama spans from 1900 to about 1945, and focuses mainly on the rise of Fascism and the peasants' eventual reaction by supporting Communism, and how these events shape the destinies of the two main characters.
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59% (2) The MacKintosh Man 98 min, PG, [Thriller] [John Huston] [08 Nov 1973]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 63%, Rotten Tomatoes: 55%, External Reviews
Actors: Dominique Sanda, Harry Andrews, James Mason, Paul Newman
Writer: Walter Hill (screenplay), Desmond Bagley (novel)
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: UK, USA
Plot: Joseph Rearden takes the fall for a robbery and winds up in the Scrubs. From there he escapes in the company of a convicted spy and is taken to a remote manor at an unknown location where he is kept isolated. He overpowers his guard and flees, but nothing is quite what it seems in this drama of intrigue as Rearden pursues his quarry from Ireland to Malta.
Rotten Tomatoes: John Huston directed this cold war spy thriller (from a script by Walter Hill) concerning a British agent trying infiltrate the organization of a nefarious communist spy. Paul Newman is Joseph Reardon, a British secret agent commissioned by Mackintosh (Harry Andrews) to impersonate a jewel thief. When the police are tipped off about his diamond robbery, Reardon is arrested and shipped off to a high-security prison. At the prison, he meets a convicted Russian spy and the two are involved in a prison break, arranged by a mysterious group called the Scarperers. After the successful breakout, Reardon finds himself drugged and sent to Ireland. It turns out that the escapade was organized by Mackintosh in the hopes Reardon could infiltrate the Scarperers and gather information on the group's leader, Sir George Wheeler (James Mason), and prove him to be a Russian spy.
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51% (2) Damnation Alley 91 min, PG, [Sci-Fi] [Jack Smight] [21 Oct 1977]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 52%, Rotten Tomatoes: 50%, External Reviews
Actors: Dominique Sanda, George Peppard, Jan-Michael Vincent, Paul Winfield
Writer: Roger Zelazny (from the novel "Damnation Alley"), Alan Sharp (screenplay), Lukas Heller (screenplay)
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA
Plot: A small group of survivors at a military installation who survived World War 3 attempt to drive across the desolate wasteland to where they hope more survivors are living. Hopefully their specially built vehicles will protect them against the freakish weather mutated plant and animal life and other dangers along the way.
Rotten Tomatoes: A small but hardy band of survivors traverses a post-apocalypse American landscape in this sci-fi thriller. A horrific nuclear assault leaves only three survivors at an underground military facility, so Tanner (Jan-Michael Vincent), Denton (George Peppard), and Keegan (Paul Winfield) commandeer a special all-terrain land cruiser and head for Albany, NY, the only American city to be spared in the attack. As they travel through the desolate post-nuke wastelands, the soldiers pick up a beautiful woman (Dominique Sanda) and an incorrigible teenager (Jackie Earle Haley), as they battle huge mutant insects, packs of survivors turned violent and feral, and brutal electrical storms that savage the already barren plains. Damnation Alley was based on a novel by award-winning speculative fiction author Roger Zelazny. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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82% (1) Le voyage en douce 98 min, R, [Comedy, Drama] [Michel Deville] [04 Jan 1980]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 82%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 nomination.
Actors: Dominique Sanda, Geraldine Chaplin, Jacques Zabor, Jean Crubelier
Writer: Michel Deville
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: French Country: France
Plot: Lucia and Elena are best friends since childhood. They take a car trip from Paris to the country. Their conversations are overtly intimate, but more revealing is their tacit understanding of each others' personality and desires.
Rotten Tomatoes: Released outside of France as Travels on the Sky, Voyage en Douce stars Dominique Sanda and Geraldine Chaplin as sisters. Both ladies are married, though Chaplin has just left her husband. Insecure about this move, Chaplin joins the self-reliant Sanda for a weekend vacation in the south of France, where the two siblings carry on a long discussion about male-female relationships. By the time Monday rolls around, the previously indecisive Chaplin emerges as the more resilient of the two sisters. Voyage en Douce director Michel Deville prevailed upon 15 famous French writers to contribute anecdotes concerning their sexual experiences; the most powerful (and best staged) was the story of a rape--a story contributed anonymously. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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75% (1) The Inheritance 120 min, R, [Drama] [Mauro Bolognini] [12 Aug 1976]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 75%, External Reviews
Awards: 2 wins & 1 nomination.
Actors: Anthony Quinn, Dominique Sanda, Fabio Testi, Gigi Proietti
Writer: Gaetano Carlo Chelli (novel), Ugo Pirro (screenplay), Sergio Bazzini (screenplay), Roberto Bigazzi (consultant)
External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: Italian Country: Italy
Plot: Quinn plays a retired bakery tycoon, alienated from his two sons and jealously guarding his vast wealth... until a cunning young beauty (Sanda) enters the picture, marries one son, seduces the other, then carefully moves in to capture both father and fortune.
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