Gérard Blain

  • Gérard Blain – Jusqu’au bout de la nuit (1995)

    Gérard Blain1991-2000DramaFrance
    Jusqu'au bout de la nuit (1995)
    Jusqu’au bout de la nuit (1995)

    Plot: François, perpetual rebel against society and its laws, is released after a long imprisonment, and meets up with his family and friends in Lyon. His new love for Maria, a young woman adrift, prompts him to get quick money. François will commit acts of violence that will definitely lose him.Read More »

  • Jean-Claude Biette – Chasse gardée (1992)

    Jean-Claude Biette1991-2000ArthouseFrance
    chasse gardée (1992)
    chasse gardée (1992)

    A “three-person relationship” with a pact involving a terrible past. The pact concerns France, Anne and Pierre.Read More »

  • José Bénazéraf – Joë Caligula – Du suif chez les dabes (1966)

    1961-1970EroticaFilm NoirFranceJosé Bénazéraf

    A group of aspiring young thugs from Marseilles move in on established gangsters. They spend the time torturing, killing and intimidating the gangsters until they either pay up or die. One punk with a sexual attraction for his sister is turned in by the girl after a degrading sex scene. The newcomers shake down bars and bistros in their efforts to become part of the violent and brutal criminal underworld. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie GuideRead More »

  • Carlo Lizzani – Il gobbo (1960)

    1951-1960Carlo LizzaniClassicsDramaItaly

    Il Gobbo (internationally released as The Hunchback of Rome) is a 1960 Italian drama film directed by Carlo Lizzani. It is loosely based on the real life events of Giuseppe Albano, an Italian partisan that was one of the protagonists, from 1943 to 1945, of the Roman Resistance against German occupation. (From Wikipedia)Read More »

  • Gérard Blain – Le pélican aka The Pelican (1974)

    Drama1971-1980FranceGérard Blain

    Paul Boyer (Gérard Blain), a jazz pianist in Paris, has lots of free time during the day, and spends it happily with his baby boy, Marc. But money is tight, and so, at his wife’s prompting, Paul takes a chance on running counterfeit dollars to New York for a big payoff. Caught at customs, he spends nine years in an American jail and returns home to find her remarried to a wealthy man and his own paternal rights revoked. The rest of the film—directed by Blain with the harrowing calm of an intimate confession—follows Paul in his obsessive, desperate, coldly calculated effort to see his son again. Though the story is part thriller, part family melodrama, part spiritual journey, part social drama, Blain purges it of all genre artifice: the purity of his method and his sentiments suggests the fresh, primal artistry of the early silent cinema. Released in 1973. In French. — Richard BrodyRead More »

  • Gérard Blain – Pierre et Djemila (1987)

    France1981-1990DramaGérard BlainRomance

    Two teenage lovers are caught up in the thrill of forbidden love in this tragic romantic drama. Pierre (Jean-Pierre Andre) is a 16-year-old French lad who loves 14-year-old Djemila (Nadja Reski), the offspring of Algerian immigrants. Pierre’s father is an Algerian war veteran who tolerates living with the immigrants at the low-income housing project as long as the two factions are separated. Djemila’s older brother carries bitter hatred for the French over their invasion of Algeria. Both young lovers fall victim to the intolerance of their families when their relatives discover that the two are engaged in a passionate love affair. © Dan Pavlides, RoviRead More »

  • Claude Chabrol – Les cousins (1959)

    1951-1960Claude ChabrolDramaFrance

    Synopsis:
    Charles is a young provincial coming up to Paris to study law. He shares his cousin Paul’s flat. Paul is a kind of decadent boy, a disillusioned pleasure-seeker, always dragging along with other idles, while Charles is a plodding, naive and honest man. He fell in love with Florence, one of Paul’s acquaintances. But how will Paul react to that attempt to build a real love relationship ? One of the major New Wave films.Read More »

  • Claude Chabrol – Le beau Serge (1958)

    1951-1960ArthouseClaude ChabrolDramaFrance

    Synopsis:
    Of the hallowed group of Cahiers du cinéma critics turned filmmakers who transformed French film history, Claude Chabrol was the first to direct his own feature. His absorbing landmark debut, Le beau Serge, follows a successful yet sickly young man (Jean-Claude Brialy) who returns home to the small village where he grew up. There, he finds himself at odds with his former close friend (Gerard Blain)—now unhappily married and a wretched alcoholic—and the provincial life he represents. The remarkable and stark Le beau Serge heralded the arrival of a cinematic titan who would go on to craft provocative, entertaining films for five more decades.Read More »

  • Jean-Pierre Mocky – Les vierges aka The Virgins (1962)

    Drama1961-1970ComedyFranceJean-Pierre Mocky

    The story of five girls who are looking for their first love and first lovemaking. Some will get their heart’s desire, and some will get their hearts broken… at least for a while.Read More »

Back to top button