The films of
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Le Professionnel (1981)
Georges Lautner 		  L'As des as (1982)
Gérard Oury 		  Le Marginal (1983)
Jacques Deray 		 
     
Le Professionnel is a good example of the hard-edged yet overly simplistic 1980s French action thriller. With its beautiful, wistful photography and a haunting musical score...  [More...]   In a similar vein to Oury’s phenomenally successful 1966 film La Grande vadrouille, L’As des as is a lavish action-comedy set at the time of the Third Reich...  [More...]   With its colossal budget, big star names (Belomondo and Silva), spectacular stunts and unbelievable action scenes, Le Marginal is a lavish French crime thriller which easily rivals similar extravaganzas from Hollywood...  [More...]  
Joyeuses Pâques (1984)
Georges Lautner 		  Les Morfalous (1984)
Henri Verneuil 		  Le Solitaire (1987)
Jacques Deray 		 
     
Clearly not a film for the culturally minded, Joyeuses Pâques is little more than a vehicle to allow its star actor, Jean-Paul Belmondo, to indulge his penchant for action stunts and theatrical over-the-top acting...  [More...]   Les Morfalous marks the end of a twenty-five year association between two pre-eminent figures in French cinema from the 1960s – director Henri Verneuil and actor Jean-Paul Belmondo...  [More...]   Despite some rather awkward attempts to bring it up to date (the all-pervasive disco culture, the viscerally realistic killings, etc.), Le Solitaire is a crime thriller in the classic French polar mould...  [More...]  
Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté (1988)
Claude Lelouch 		  L'Inconnu dans la maison (1992)
Georges Lautner 		  Les Misérables (1995)
Claude Lelouch 		 
     
Inspired by the decision of his friend Jacques Brel to abandon fame and fortune in France for the tranquillity of the Marquesas Islands, director Claude Lelouch had little difficulty selling the idea of Itinéraire...  [More...]   Georges Lautner was the third film director to adapt Georges Simenon’s novel Les Inconnus dans la maison. After Henri Decoin’s masterful 1942 version (which starred the acting legend Raimu ) came Pierre Rouve’s...  [More...]   This is a clever re-working of Victor Hugo’s novel, set at the time of the German occupation in France. Although quite a long film (nearly 3 hours)...  [More...]  
Désiré (1996)
Bernard Murat 		  Une chance sur deux (1998)
Patrice Leconte 		  Peut-être (1999)
Cédric Klapisch 		 
     
 [More...]    [More...]   After three successful social comedies (which include the popular Chacun cherche son chat), Cédric Klapisch’s first foray into a genre film comes as something of a surprise...  [More...]  
Amazone (2000)
Philippe de Broca 		  Les Acteurs (2000)
Bertrand Blier 		  Un homme et son chien (2009)
Francis Huster 		 
     
This sixth collaboration of actor Jean-Paul Belmondo and director Philippe de Broca is one to be avoided at all costs. De Broca’s imagination and energy have clearly been depleted by this stage in his career...  [More...]   You should always be wary of any film which boasts more than half a dozen A-list actors. There is of course the chance that the script is so mind-bogglingly brilliant that any actor would jump at the chance to appear...  [More...]    [More...]  

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