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Miscellaneous French films
Vol. 2
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White
(1993)
Starring: Zbigniew Zamachowski,
Julie Delpy, et al.
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Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Rated: R (Not for sale to
persons under age 18.)
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ASIN: 6303326838
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Synopsis:
Second of Polish director Kieslowski's
THREE COLORS trilogy, this story concerns
a hapless Polish immigrant living in Paris
with his beautiful French wife, Dominique
(Julie Delpy), who is divorcing him for no
longer being able to perform in bed. Full
of irony and subtle wit; the best of the
trilogy. Kieslowski wrote the screenplay
with frequent collaborator Krzysztof
Piesiewicz. Title on screen is THREE
COLORS: WHITE.
Copyright©
Leonard Maltin, 1998, used by arrangement
with Signet, a division of Penguin Putnam,
Inc.
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Director: Luc Besson
Rated: R (Not for sale to
persons under age 18.)
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Synopsis:
French director Luc Besson (The Fifth
Element) broke the commercial taboo
against female-driven action movies with
this seminal, seductively slick film about
a violent street punk (Anne Parillaud)
trained to become a smooth, stylish
assassin. Though it amounts, in the end,
to little more than disposable pop, the
film has a cohesiveness in style and tone
-- akin to the early James Bond films --
that gives it a sense of integrity.
Parillaud is compelling both as a wild
child and chic-but-lethal pro (trained in
good manners by none other than Jeanne
Moreau). Tchéky Karyo is also good
as the cop mentor who develops feelings
for her. The DVD release has a widescreen
presentation, "parental controls,"
optional English soundtrack (dubbed) or
subtitles, optional Korean subtitles. --
Tom
Keogh
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Webmaster's
note: "La Femme
Nikita" was
remade in the U. S. as "Point of No
Return" ,
starring Bridget Fonda and Gabriel
Byrne.
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Director: Vincente Minnelli
Rated: NR
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Synopsis: A
GI (Gene Kelly) stays in Paris after the
war to become an artist, and has to choose
between the patronage of a rich American
woman (Nina Foch) and a French gamine
(Leslie Caron) engaged to an older man.
The plot is mostly an excuse for director
Vincente Minnelli to pool his own
extraordinary talent with those of
choreographer- dancer-actor Kelly and the
artists behind the screenplay, art
direction, cinematography, and score,
creating a rapturous musical not quite
like anything else in the cinema. The
final section of the film comprises a
17-minute dance sequence that took a month
to film and is breathtaking. --
Tom
Keogh
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[ Read a profile about Leslie Caron ]
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Sabrina
(1995)
Starring: Harrison Ford, Julia Ormond, Nancy Marchand,
Greg Kinnear, Lauren Holly, et al.
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Director: Sydney Pollack
Rated: PG
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"Paris scenes are especially lovely."
-- Leonard Maltin
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Synopsis: A
poor chauffeur's daughter finds true love
in this modern-day "Cinderella" story -- a
remake of the classic 1954 romantic
comedy, "Sabrina." Although Sabrina
attempts to win over David Larrabee, a
young Long Island playboy her father works
for, he barely even knows she's alive. To
help get her mind off David, Sabrina's dad
sends her on a trip to Paris,
where she trains to become a fashion
photographer. In Europe, the mousey young
girl blossoms into a beautiful woman
before returning to the Larrabee estate on
Long Island. At first, David doesn't
recognize the altered Sabrina. Once he
does, however, he falls hard -- which
jeopardizes his impending marriage to
Elizabeth, a wealthy doctor. This turn of
events greatly concerns his older, more
serious brother, Linus, who's counting on
the marriage to cement a merger between
his company and a business owned by
Elizabeth's rich father. So Linus decides
to woo Sabrina, hoping she'll fall for him
and forget his brother. However, the
scheme backfires when Linus himself begins
to find the charming Sabrina
irresistible...
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