Although he is perhaps best known for his leading role in Robert Bresson’s 1956
film Un
condamné à mort s’est échappé... [More...]
The film that launched the film career of the popular singer Jacques Brel is all but forgotten
today, which is a shame because it as relevant today as it was when it was first released... [More...]
Jacques Brel clearly relishes his role as an amiable swashbuckling Don
Juan in this entertaining historical farce and throws himself into the
part body and soul... [More...]
Marcel Carné’s penultimate fictional film is a superlative
example of the kind of gritty political thriller that would become
highly popular in France in the mid to late 1970s... [More...]
Although intended as an off-the-wall comedy, L’Aventure, c’est l’aventure does
offer a pretty accurate reflection of the kind of political upheavals which were taking
place in France when it was being... [More...]
The popular Belgian singer Jacques Brel stars along side Lino Ventura – the great hard
man of French cinema – in this unique, totally bizarre black comedy... [More...]
