The misadventures of an gangster who escapes from prison and who wants to quit the crime world. Having killed a criminal as pay-back, he goes to Marseille to head abroad with his girlfriend. But a lack of money forces him to accept a job, a hold-up, to settle accounts with the victim’s brother, all this with the cops on his tail.Read More »
Michel Blanc
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Alain Corneau – Le deuxième souffle AKA The Second Wind (2007)
2001-2010Alain CorneauDramaFranceThriller -
Peter Greenaway – Prospero’s Books (1991)
1991-2000DramaFantasyPeter GreenawayUnited KingdomQuote:
Peter Greenaway’s “Prospero’s Books” is not a movie in the sense that we usually employ the word. It’s an experiment in form and content. It is likely to bore most audiences, but will enchant others — especially those able to free themselves from the notion that movies must tell stories. This film should be approached like a record album or an art book. Each “page” is there to be studied in its complexity and richness, while on the soundtrack we hear one of the great voices in theater history, John Gielgud’s.Read More » -
Bertrand Blier – Merci la vie AKA Thanks for Life (1991)
1991-2000Bertrand BlierDramaFranceSynopsis:
Camille, a naive schoolgirl meets an intiguing influence in Joelle, a slightly older and much more experienced spirit. Camille follows her new friend through the discovery of sex and the darker side of life. As the film progresses Camille discovers Aids and the fear that she may have picked up the disease in her early encounters.Read More »