French
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PARIS MANHATTAN
Alice is obsessed with Woody Allen. She has a giant poster of him in her bedroom which she pours her heart too every night even though she is an intelligent woman and a successful pharmacist too boot. Even in the Drugstore she runs with her father in Paris she hands out DVD’s of her favorite…
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Bad Boy Street aka Rue Des Mauvais Garcons
It’s dawn in Paris, Yann a middle-aged gay man is walking home when he spots a cute young man lying in the gutter. Turns out he’s drunk and an American tourist. The street is in the 4th Arrondissement and is called Rue des Mauvais Garcons : hence the movie title. Next morning the boy wakes…
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Comme Les Autres aka Baby Love
This excellent ‘comedy of manners’ movie set in Paris is about Manu, a Pediatrician in his mid 40’s with a very successful life, who desperately wants to be a Dad even though his determination causes him to break up with his longstanding partner Philippe a Lawyer who has no paternal instincts at all. Like Florida,…
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JOURNAL DE FRANCE
If most of us rummaged through our partner’s storage room to check out what old photos and videos you could dust off, I dare say the novelty would wear thin very quickly. However if you are the sound engineer Claudine Nougaret and your husband is the legendary veteran French cameraman Raymond Depardon then the years…
