Satire on family life made in somehow documentary style.Read More »
Patrice Leconte
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Patrice Leconte – La famille heureuse (Famille Gazul) (1973)
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Patrice Leconte – Ridicule (1996)
Patrice Leconte1991-2000ComedyDramaFranceTo get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.Read More »
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Patrice Leconte – L’homme du train AKA Man On The Train (2002) (HD)
2001-2010CrimeFrancePatrice LeconteThrillerA man steps off a train into a French village awaiting the day when he will rob the town bank. He meets a retired poetry teacher striking up a strange friendship and explore the road not taken, each wanting to live the other’s life.Read More »
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Patrice Leconte – Le parfum d’Yvonne (1994)
Drama1991-2000FrancePatrice LeconteRomanceIt is the summer of 1958 in wealthy Lake Geneva, where an enigmatic young Frenchman begins an affair with a beautiful starlet under the watchful eye of her flamboyant elderly mentor. But in a season full of secrets, is truth the most elusive passion of all?Read More »
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Patrice Leconte – Tango (1993)
1991-2000ComedyDramaFrancePatrice LeconteSynopsis (possible spoilers):
‘Vincent, a stunt pilot, is acquitted of murdering his wife and her lover. However, a few years later, L’Elegant, the Judge in the case, comes to blackmail him. The Judge’s nephew, Paul, is having trouble with his wife and they demand that Vincent kill her. The Judge, a confirmed bachelor, takes Paul and Vincent on the road to search for Paul’s wife Marie. The three men get on well together, and spend their time discussing their relationship with women.’
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Patrice Leconte – La Fille sur le pont aka The Girl on the Bridge (1999)
1991-2000ComedyDramaFrancePatrice LeconteSynopsis:
One night, a fading entertainer intervenes when a woman contemplates suicide, beginning a strange, unpredictable relationship.Read More » -
Patrice Leconte – Tandem (1987)
Drama1981-1990ComedyFrancePatrice LeconteMichel Mortez is going to and fro France to compere a radio game he created 25 years ago. He is famous among the average Frenchmen. But he is also a poker. Rivetot, his assistant and technician, always goes with him. He is the only one to know what really lies under Mortez’s appearance of playful don Juan. When the programme is condemned by the managers, Rivetot delays as long as possible the moment he will have to announce it to Mortez… Both malicious and tender, this bitter comedy also shows nostalgia.Read More »
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Patrice Leconte – Confidences trop intimes AKA Intimate Strangers (2004)
2001-2010DramaFrancePatrice LeconteErotic Suspense After Mistaken Identity
In Patrice Leconte’s sardonic psychological thriller, ”Intimate Strangers,” Sandrine Bonnaire portrays a Gallic answer to one of Alfred Hitchcock’s sleek blond women of mystery. Imagine the Grace Kelly of ”Rear Window” or the Kim Novak of ”Vertigo” sprawled seductively on an analyst’s couch, smoking cigarettes and confiding her sexual frustration to a repressed, wide-eyed shrink who is obsessed with her.Read More »