French
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QUEEN TO PLAY
I have always loved how French movie makers stretch their imaginations when it comes to dealing with ‘amour’, but using an obsession with chess to help a repressed housewife rekindle her sexuality was just a tad too far fetched for me. Helene is a chambermaid in a luxury hotel in Corsica and after a putting…
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MY PIECE OF THE PIE
There is a detestable savagery to the rather odious behaviour of money man Steve who can manipulate the share price of a Factory to force its closure and a handsome profit for himself without a hint of emotion, but who gets really pissed when a pretty girl proves that she is no easy takeover and…
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SHALL WE KISS
Two strangers meet in Nantes (a town in France), he is a local furniture restorer, and she a visiting fabric designer. There is an immediate attraction to each other and they end up having a romantic candlelit supper together. After dinner he drives her back to her Hotel and they are both reluctant to part…
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THE WELL DIGGER’S DAUGHTER
This sentimental old-fashioned French melodrama oozing with charm is a faithful remake of the 1940 original movie penned and directed by novelist turned playwright Marcel Pagnol. This time it is helmed by veteran award winning actor Daniel Auteuil making his directing debut and taking the starring role too. There are no CGI, (computer generated imagery)…
