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  • Jean Eustache – Mes petites amoureuses AKA My Little Loves (1974) (HD)

    Jean Eustache1971-1980DramaFrance
    Mes petites amoureuses (1974) (HD)
    Mes petites amoureuses (1974) (HD)

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    Small (though long), quiet (literally – there is no music score, for example), observant (like its lead), nostalgic coming-of-age tale. Not much plot, just a series of daily-life blackout vignettes. It definitely has its boring moments, but also some wonderful ones, like the boy getting his first kiss in a movie theater playing “Pandora And The Flying Dutchman”. Successfully captures both small-town and country atmosphere, thanks in large part to Nestor Almendros’ beautiful cinematography. *** out of 4.Read More »

  • Jean Eustache – Mes petites amoureuses AKA My Little Loves (1974)

    1971-1980ArthouseDramaFranceJean Eustache

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    After the success of The Mother and the Whore, French director Jean Eustache was finally able to make Mes petites amoureuses, an equally personal but vastly different film — a portrait of his childhood in the south of France in which every footstep, every gesture, and every visual detail feels as though it’s been drawn directly from the filmmaker’s memory.Read More »

  • Pierre Zucca – Roberte (1979)

    Drama1971-1980FantasyFrancePierre Zucca

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    Unlike the erotic surrealism mastery of his peer-filmmakers such as Buñuel, Robbe-Grillet and even Raúl Ruiz, Pierre Zucca in his Roberte (adapted from Pierre Klossowski’s novel) tends mostly toward a “non-professionalism” and aesthetical economy. Where the enchanting force of his work is driven by an atmospheric sense of strangeness and oddity, an ambient surreality: a complex simplicity, when precisely less is more!Read More »

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