French
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GAINSBOURG : AN HEROIC LIFE
Some 10 years after his death in his native France singer and songwriter Serge Gainsbourg is evidently still considered a legend and an icon. This startling new movie based on first time director Joann Starr’s own graphic novel traces Gainsbourg roots when he was then just Lucien Ginsberg a young mischievous Russian Jewish boy growing…
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THE WOMEN ON THE 6TH FLOOR
Jean-Louis Joubert seems happy in his mundane life that is ruled by the weight of maintaining the Stockbroking Firm that has been in his family for generations, as has the mansion block cavernous apartment that he lives in with his cold fish of a wife. The setting is Paris, and the year is 1962, and…
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L'AMOUR FOU
The best part of this disappointing mish-mash of a film is the opening sequence which is footage of Yves St Laurent announcing to the world that he is about to retire. In a highly dramatic speech that he stumbles through in which, amongst other things, he confesses to the demons (drink and drugs) he has…
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OF GODS
The whole crux of this film is whether 8 French Trappist Monks should leave their Monastery, and all the villagers who depend upon them, when the lives are threatened by a group of Terrorists in the midst of a horrific bloody civil war. The time is 1996, and the setting is the Atlas Mountains in…
