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The films of
Charles Aznavour
Charles Aznavour
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Les Disparus de Saint-Agil (1938) Christian-Jaque |
Ces dames préfèrent le mambo (1957) Bernard Borderie |
La Tête contre les murs (1959) Georges Franju |
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| Les Disparus de Saint-Agil is classic of French cinema, an atmospheric comedy thriller with dark elements of fantasy and mysticism, which is regarded as one of director Christian-Jaque’s best works... [More...] | Eddie Constantine stars in this somewhat lacklustre pastiche of film noir and American-style action/adventure, a formula that was hugely popular in France in the 1950s... [More...] | A decade and a half before director Milos Forman made a spirited condemnation of American society’s treatment of the mentally ill in his multi-Oscar winning One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)... [More...] |
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Les Dragueurs (1959) Jean-Pierre Mocky |
Pourquoi viens-tu si tard? (1959) Henri Decoin |
Le Passage du Rhin (1960) André Cayatte |
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Le Testament d'Orphée (1960) Jean Cocteau |
Tirez sur le pianiste (1960) François Truffaut |
Un taxi pour Tobrouk (1960) Denys de La Patellière |
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| Jean Cocteau’s final film is a fitting conclusion to a remarkable artistic career spanning over fifty years. The film manages to encompass all aspects of Cocteau’s creative genius and it is perhaps the best... [More...] | With one successful film (Les quatre cents coups) under his belt, director François Truffaut was free to indulge himself in two of his personal passions... [More...] | Inspired by a popular novel by René Havard, Un taxi pour Tobrouk is a classic French war film that shows the brutality and absurdity of war without slipping into sentimentality or laboured anti-war polemic... [More...] |
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Les Lions sont lâchés (1961) Henri Verneuil |
Du mouron pour les petits oiseaux (1962) Marcel Carné |
Le Diable et les dix commandements (1962) Julien Duvivier |
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The multi-part film is a difficult kind of cinema to get right but Duvivier’s Le Diable et les dix commandements is a rare exception where the form succeeds admirably... [More...] |
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Les Quatre vérités (1962) Alessandro Blasetti |
Les Vierges (1963) Jean-Pierre Mocky |
La Métamorphose des cloportes (1965) Pierre Granier-Deferre |
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La Métamorphose des cloportes is a typically French comedy policier of the kind that was very popular in the mid-1960s. After the success of Georges Lautner’s 1963 film Les Tontons flingueurs... [More...] |
