Brigitte Fossey

  • Claude Pinoteau – La Boum 2 AKA The Party 2 (1982)

    Claude Pinoteau1981-1990DramaFranceRomance
    La Boum 2 (1982)
    La Boum 2 (1982)

    Two years after the first “Boum”, Vic – now 15 and a half years old – has a very calm love life, actually no boyfriend at all. Her parents are happily together again, Grandma Poupette thinks about finally marring her long-term boyfriend. But then Vic meets Philippe and is overcome by his charm. She’s in heaven again and considers going all the way this time – a step, that her girlfriend Penelope already has taken.Read More »

  • Susumu Hani – Yôsei no uta AKA Mio (1972)

    1971-1980DocumentaryDramaJapanSusumu Hani
    Yôsei no uta (1972)
    Yôsei no uta (1972)

    Susumu Hani’s six-year-old daughter Mio plays an orphaned Japanese girl who, for some reason, ends up in Sardinia. She starts going to school, quickly learns Italian, and befriends a boy named Raphael. One of Hani’s stranger concepts for a film, made enjoyable by the great naturalistic acting that’s found in most of his work.Read More »

  • Claude Sautet – Un mauvais fils AKA A Bad Son (1980)

    1971-1980Claude SautetDramaFrance

    Quote:
    The conflict between the generations is a recurring theme in the cinema of Claude Sautet. Often as not, it is peripheral to the main drama, but in Un mauvais fils it is absolutely central, the lightning conductor in a raging emotional thunderstorm. The fraught relationship between a middle-aged father and his estranged son Bruno is mirrored by one of a gentler hue, that between a gay bookshop owner and his attractive employee Catherine, who is his adopted daughter in all but name. Bruno appears to have more in common with Catherine, a perfect stranger, than with his father, and so whilst one relationship withers, another flourishes.Read More »

  • Jean-Pierre Dougnac – Un amour interdit aka A Strange Passion (1984)

    1981-1990DramaFranceJean-Pierre DougnacRomance

    Romantic melodrama set in 18th century plague-ridden Italy. Elvire (Brigitte Fossey) enters a loveless marriage with the elderly Piacchi (Fernando Rey) and finds herself becoming attracted to their adopted son Nicolo, who reminds her of a man who once sacrificed his life for her.Read More »

  • Claude Lelouch – Le bon et les méchants AKA The Good and the Bad (1976)

    Claude Lelouch1971-1980CrimeDramaFrance

    Synopsis
    1935. Jacques and Simon live by their wits, from the hold-up in jewelry theft. When war broke out, the two friends and Lola, a prostitute, make the traffic with the Germans, but by discovering the methods of the Gestapo, they give up and enter the Resistance. At the end of the war, Jacques is decorated and returned to his first occupations. 1935 Flying the new model of Citroën, a man invented the gang des tractions avant. Thus begin ten years of tracking down an infernal, good between the band and the gang of bad guys. A continuous suspense on WWII base where the good are not always the nicest, and not necessarily the most wicked cruel …Read More »

  • Jean-Gabriel Albicocco – Le grand Meaulnes AKA The Wanderer (1967)

    Drama1961-1970ClassicsFranceJean-Gabriel Albicocco

    Quote:
    “No film is so enchanting but ultimately tragic as Le Grand Meaulnes, based on the classic novel of the same title written by Alain-Fournier, his only novel published the year after he was killed in the first World War.

    I’ll need to start with the novel since it is so fundamental to the film. Whoever read it in their youth can never forget it. It influenced Jack Kerouac, and thus became the only book that Sal Paradise carried with him in On the Road. Author John Fowles considered it “the greatest novel of adolescence in European literature.” In the U.S, it is usually translated as The Wanderer, a fitting title.Read More »

  • Claude Sautet – Un mauvais fils AKA A Bad Son (1980)

    1971-1980Claude SautetDramaFrance

    The conflict between the generations is a recurring theme in the cinema of Claude Sautet. Often as not, it is peripheral to the main drama, but in Un mauvais fils it is absolutely central, the lightning conductor in a raging emotional thunderstorm. The fraught relationship between a middle-aged father and his estranged son Bruno is mirrored by one of a gentler hue, that between a gay bookshop owner and his attractive employee Catherine, who is his adopted daughter in all but name. Bruno appears to have more in common with Catherine, a perfect stranger, than with his father, and so whilst one relationship withers, another flourishes.Read More »

  • Claude Faraldo – Les fleurs du miel AKA The Honey Flowers (1976)

    1971-1980Claude FaraldoDramaFrance

    Synopsis:
    ‘While doing his job as a delivery driver, Paul stumbles into a violent domestic argument. Just as the well-to-do couple are coming to blows, he intervenes to prevent the violence from going further. The two turn to him to judge the merit of their disagreements and invite him to dinner. What follows becomes a small adventure in understanding for everyone.’
    – Clarke FountainRead More »

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