Philippe Noiret

  • Robert Enrico – Le vieux fusil AKA Vengeance One by One AKA The Old Gun (1975)

    Robert Enrico1971-1980FranceThrillerWar

    In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu in a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German army entering Montauban, he asks his friend Francois to drive his wife and his daughter in the back country village where Julien has an old castle. One week later, Julien decided to meet then for the week end, but the Germans are already occupying the village.Read More »

  • Gianfranco Mingozzi – Il frullo del passero AKA The Sparrow’s Fluttering (1988)

    Drama1981-1990EroticaGianfranco MingozziItaly

    Official announce:
    Young and beautiful Silvana (Ornella Muti) has reached an impasse in her life after the
    death of her lover. She is approached by a friend of the deceased, Gabriele (Philippe
    Noiret), who proposes to keep her in luxury at his manor house, as long as she will keep
    him company and listen to his stories of past love affairs. Initially, Silvana is not attracted
    to the older man, and only reluctantly, and in stages, accepts his strange offer. What
    follows is a very different tale of seduction and awakening for Silvana, as Gabriele’s tales
    impress themselves upon her, and even in a way enter her own life. As much of the film
    rests on the verbal stories that Gabriele tell Silvana, a real understanding and
    appreciation of the film is of course not possible (for me personally) without an English
    translation of the dialogue. However, Muti and Noiret are wonderful to watch, and the film
    as such looks good (as photographed by Luigi Verga).Read More »

  • Pierre Granier-Deferre – L’ami de Vincent AKA A Friend of Vincent (1983)

    Drama1981-1990FrancePierre Granier-Deferre

    Synopsis:
    The Bear and the Fox, or What Friends Are for:

    ‘The bear, played by Philippe Noiret, is the conductor of a music hall orchestra, a kind hearted soul, always ready to help the next person if need arises. The fox, played by Jean Rochefort, is a trumpeter in the bear’s orchestra and his friend since childhood. After an evening’s performance a young woman enters their common dressing room, draws a revolver and starts shooting at the fox. She cries out that he has ruined her sister but is far too nervous to aim straight and causes no real harm. After she has run away, the fox gets into hiding, asking the bear to find the woman he swears he has never seen before. He makes a list of all his lovers, and it is a very long list indeed.
    The (strictly monogamous) bear travels through all of France in the quest of the woman whose life the fox has ruined, in the hope that the murderous sister can be captured and the fox can go on with his life. He meets all kind of womenfolk and learns a lot about his friend who is a far more dubious and amoral person than he had thought previously. Read More »

  • Patrice Leconte – Tango (1993)

    1991-2000ComedyDramaFrancePatrice Leconte

    Synopsis (possible spoilers):
    ‘Vincent, a stunt pilot, is acquitted of murdering his wife and her lover. However, a few years later, L’Elegant, the Judge in the case, comes to blackmail him. The Judge’s nephew, Paul, is having trouble with his wife and they demand that Vincent kill her. The Judge, a confirmed bachelor, takes Paul and Vincent on the road to search for Paul’s wife Marie. The three men get on well together, and spend their time discussing their relationship with women.’
    – Will Gilbert (IMDb)Read More »

  • Bertrand Tavernier – Coup de torchon AKA Clean Slate [+Extras] (1981)

    1981-1990Bertrand TavernierComedyDramaFrance

    Quote:
    1938, in a French African colony. Lucien Cordier is the cop of this village, populated with blacks and a few whites (usually racialist and lustful). He is a washout, everyone (including his wife Huguette) humiliates him. He never arrests anyone and looks at elsewhere when a dirty trick occurs. But one day, he turns into a Machiavellian exterminating angel.Read More »

  • Pierre Granier-Deferre – L’Etoile du Nord AKA The North Star (1982)

    1981-1990CrimeFrancePierre Granier-DeferreThriller

    Synopsis:
    Edouard Binet, an aimless Frenchman, has been travelling in North Africa for many years, and is sailing to Belgium. En route, he meets Sylvie Baron. He introduces her to Nemrod Lobetoum, a rich Egyptian carrying valuable jewelry, and Sylvie and Nemrod become friends. Their friendship escalates to love, which makes Edouard jealous. Days later, Edouard arrives at a rooming house owned by Mme. Louise Baron, Sylvie’s mother, wearing blood-stained clothes. It appears that Nemrod was killed on a train after he arrived in France, but Edouard denies any knowledge of what happened. Sylvie suspects that Edouard is responsible for Nemrod’s death, but by now her mother has become Edouard’s ally.Read More »

  • Marco Ferreri – La grande bouffe (1973)

    1971-1980ArthouseComedyItalyMarco Ferreri

    Quote:
    Subversive Italian satirist Marco Ferreri directed and co-wrote (with Rafael Azcona) this grotesquely amusing French black comedy about four men who grow sick of life, and so meet at a remote villa with the goal of literally eating themselves to death. The quartet comes from various walks of life — a pilot (Marcello Mastroianni), a chef (Ugo Tognazzi), a television host (Michel Piccoli), and a judge (Philippe Noiret) — but all are successful men with excessive appetites for life’s pleasures (food is used as mere metaphor here, as graphic as that metaphor becomes). ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie GuideRead More »

  • Michael Radford & Massimo Troisi – Il postino AKA The Postman (1994)

    1991-2000DramaItalyMassimo TroisiMichael RadfordRomance

    Quote:
    Set in the year 1950, Pablo Neruda, the famous Chilean poet, is exiled to a small island in Italy for political reasons. His wife accompanies him. On the island, a local, Mario Ruoppolo, is dissatisfied with being a fisherman, like his father. Mario looks for other work and is hired as a temporary postman, with Neruda as his only customer. He uses his bicycle to hand deliver Neruda’s mail. Though poorly educated, the postman eventually befriends Neruda and becomes further influenced by Neruda’s political views and poetry.Read More »

  • Yves Robert – Clérambard (1969)

    1961-1970ComedyFranceYves Robert

    An aristocrat, short of the readies, has turned his desirable mansion into a textile workshop, where he works with his wife, his son and his mother-in-law. He’s grumpy, stingy and unkind. In the village, the wealthy solicitor wants his ugliest daughter to marry his half-witted young son, so she’ll become a countess. But saint Francis Assisi appears and the count changes overnight; he does not want his family to kill the spiders (your sister, the spider) and he begins to ignore the social conventions: his son will marry “La Langouste” (the lobster), the local hooker who keeps a strong clientele among the billeted troops. Now, the aristocrat, imitating our Lord’s apostles, divests himself of all possessions of the material world and intends to hit the road in a horse-drawn caravan.Read More »

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