Daniel Vigne’s The Return of Martin Guerre, recently restored and returning to theaters, starts by introducing the viewer to a mystery. The film opens in media res (it’s from 1982, before every movie did that) with Bertrande (Nathalie Baye) being...
Almost 30 years after the release of Maurice Pialat’s sometimes hilarious, often uncomfortable Loulou, it would still be seen as a big deal for movie to star both Isabelle Huppert and Gerard Depardieu. Here, though, in the early stages of...
Sandwiched more or less right in between Louis Malle’s 1971 Murmur of the Heart and Agnes Varda’s 1988 Kung-fu Master! (aka Le petit amour) is Bertrand Blier’s 1978 Get Out Your Handkerchiefs. All three are evidence of French filmmakers’ ability...
