When a real-estate promoter attempts to take over the homes of two electronics whizzes and boot them out, they contrive ingenious ways to inconvenience and harass him. By pooling their knowledge, they are able to pull off a crucial robbery using a very special box of chocolates.Read More »
Claude Piéplu
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Joël Santoni – Ils sont grands ces petits AKA These Kids Are Grown-Ups (1979)
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Claude Miller – Dites-lui que je l’aime AKA This Sweet Sickness (1977)
Drama1971-1980Claude MillerFranceThrillerSynopsis:
David is an accountant. He leaves town every Friday, pretending he is going to take care of his parents at their old people’s home. But actually his parents are dead, and he spends the week-ends converting a chalet. He intends to live there with Lise, a woman he knows and loves since childhood. But Lise has just married another and has a baby. David’s mad love does not see those facts as an obstacle…Read More » -
Michel Deville – L’apprenti salaud AKA The Apprentice Heel (1977)
1971-1980ComedyDramaFranceMichel DevilleAntoine Chapelot, a bachelor in his forties, works in a hardware shop and lives with his mother. Everything changes when he meets Caroline, a teenaged charmer who unwittingly helps him to organize a lucrative real estate scam. While he is on a roll, Antoine decides to pursue the career of a swindler a bit further by persuading a rich family that they had a long-lost American uncle who has just died a millionaire.
Like Deville’s best films, this has an eccentric relationship at the heart of the plot, vertiginous cutting and a dance-like fluidity of texture.Read More »