This film is a curious mix of comedy, swash-buckling adventure, romance and tragic drama.
Whilst it succeeds to some extent in all of these areas, the overall ensemble feels strangely
lacking... [More...]
Much of this episodic comic film feels dated even by the standards of the early 1960s,
and its all-star billing is largely wasted on the lacklustre material contrived by Jean
Girault and his cohorts... [More...]
This energetic adventure farce owes as much to the Tintin stories of Hergé
as to the James Bond films. Filmed almost entirely on location in Brasil... [More...]
Le Roi de coeur is an amazing film, one of those
rare fanciful comedies that dares to tackle a genuine social or political issue and makes
its point with a simplicity that is totally effective... [More...]
Yves Montand shows great promise as a comic performer in this entertaining farce from
Philippe de Broca. As is fairly typical of popular French comedies of this
period... [More...]
Very redolent of the era in which it was made, Le Magnifique is an ebullient mix
of the truly bizarre and original which gives it a rare timeless quality... [More...]
L’Incorrigible was the fifth collaboration between director Philippe de Broca and
French film star Jean-Paul Belmondo, who had previously enjoyed phenomenal success with
such films as L’Homme de Rio
(1964)... [More...]
The inspired pairing of Annie Girardot and Philippe Noiret, two of the
most familiar French actors of the 1970s, makes Tendre poulet one of director
Philippe de Broca’s more entertaining and memorable films... [More...]
Whilst clearly not in the same league as Philippe de Broca’s exuberant
adventure comedies, Le Cavaleur
provides a fair quota of laughs, courtesy of Michel Audiard’s witty
dialogue and a magnificent turn from the seemingly... [More...]
The therapy culture, an emerging phenomenon in France in the late 1970s, is an area which
is ripe for satire, and Philipe de Broca’s comedy Psy manages to tap into this
rich vein with great success... [More...]
This well-paced adventure-comedy from Philippe de Broca takes an ironic swipe at colonialism
and conservatism whilst offering a satisfying parody of the Hollywood African adventure
sub-genre... [More...]
This is an action-packed two hours of swash-buckling adventure of the Three Musketeers
kind in which French cinema has revelled and excelled for decades... [More...]
