Jacques Higelin Movies
- 1988
This is a remake of the 1982 film Savannah Smiles. Colin (Jacques Higelen) and Mailland (Daniel Martin) are small-time crooks on the run who are surprised to find the seven-year-old runaway Savannah (Elodie Gautier) is along for the ride. The police and her parents fear she has been kidnapped, and a massive manhunt is launched with orders to shoot to kill the alleged perpetrators. The lovable little girl soon melts the hearts of the crooks, as the trio enjoy an unlikely but sentimental friendship. The late Marcel Bozzuffi makes his last screen appearance as Coplan, the confident cop in charge of recovering Savannah. Rene Feret plays Savannah's father, a hypocritical politician. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jacques Higelin, Daniel Martin, (more)
- 1973
This dark French comedy satirizes suburban living. Marthe Keller and Jacques Higelin play a newly married couple who have just moved into the suburbs. Nearly everything is oppressive: among other things, the walls of their house are too thin and their neighbors harangue them with complaints of all kinds. They also suffer from the difficulties of the commute to work. When this routine nearly drives the wife to suicide, they are both relieved when their house literally blows up around them. They then discover another set of indignities while they are at the hospital. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Marthe Keller, Jacques Higelin, (more)
- 1973
In this French crime caper film, a young misfit (Jacques Higelin) who has grown tired of his job as a bank teller deliberately gets fired. When some underworld characters ask him to share the layout of the bank so that they can more effectively rob it, he does. He also joins in the robbery. But when members of the gang start shooting at one another, it becomes clear that he is definitely in over his head. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1973
This whimsical French comedy explores what would happen if, all of a sudden, all the ordinary people throughout the world stopped working and money becomes worthless. A wide-ranging series of sketches shows how people react in their varied situations. In one New York sequence, there is a rain of bodies on Wall Street, as financiers throw themselves off skyscrapers. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Romain Bouteille, Henri Guybet, (more)
- 1971
On a Spanish island, a young French woman has died after falling from a cliff. The local police inspector is charged with solving the case quickly and quietly, so as not to disturb tourism. From here on, the tale is largely told in flashbacks as the detective seeks to find out whether this was an accidental death, murder, or suicide. If it was a suicide, her disaffected ex-soldier boyfriend might have contributed to her death. Perhaps the local inhabitants, resentful of tourists (and especially hippies), somehow caused her to fall. Maybe a local peasant was too persistent in his attentions, and she died escaping him. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1969
A musician employed by the ballet is married and has a young daughter but he feels alienated and uncertain about the future. When the ballet goes on tour, he falls in love with a pretty ballerina. He contemplates leaving his wife, but his adoration for his daughter prevents him from acting on his thoughts. The film contains many backstage scenes as the dancers prepare for the performance and talk about love, life and the character flaws of the men who love them. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jacques Higelin, Catherine Martin, (more)
- 1969
A married woman in her 30s tries to spice up her sex life with her distracted husband. Annie (Annie Girardot) buys clothes to entice her husband Philippe (Jean Yanne) who is preoccupied with an upcoming tax audit. Even the presence of a beautiful fashion model who visits with Phillipe's brother fails to divert his attention. The title is taken from one of several advertisements seen by Annie who is desperate to regain her husband's attention. This feature is the official French entry at the 1969 Berlin Film Festival. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Annie Girardot, Jean Yanne, (more)
- 1968
We Will Not Enter the Forest entered French theatres as Nous N'Irons plus au Bois. The film is set in the waning days of the Nazi occupation of France. The German troops have no real clout, and as such are the targets of taunts and kidnappings. Marie-France Pisar plays a resistance fighter who falls in love with a "good" German (Siegfried Rauch) who has prematurely surrendered. This film resembles an American Civil War picture in which neither side of the war is the villain. Filmed in 1969, We Will Not Enter the Forest was not released in the U.S. until 1979. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Marie-France Pisier, Siegfried Rauch, (more)
- 1968
Disenchanted teenagers reject adult authority and look for something to rebel against at school in this independent French film. The feature takes a satirical look at the lives of those who pretend to be disadvantaged socially and philosophically as the rebels try to find a cause. They end up being no more than what they appear, spoiled teens bored with their everyday lives and hoping for a reason to stage a mysterious revolution. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jacques Higelin, Brigitte Fontaine, (more)
- 1963
Bebert (Martin Lartigue) is a five-year-old boy who gets separated from his older brother on a train. Comedy ensues as the precocious moppet observes the less-than-grown-up activities of the adults as he seeks to be reunited with his family. Panic-stricken adults continue the search for the missing boy in this delightful comedy directed by Yves Robert. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jacques Higelin, Blanchette Brunoy, (more)
- 1961
Saint Tropez Blues is the first film directed by Marcel Moussy who started off his screenwriting career just before this with a bang (The 400 Blows and Shoot the Piano Player, both directed by François Truffaut). But this New Wave sex comedy is not quite there yet. Its heroine is Anne-Marie (Marie Laforet) who goes south with her childhood friend Jean-Paul (Jacques Higelin) instead of hitting the books at home. The friends join up with artist-types in Saint Tropez, and though the ambiance is carefree and casual, Anne-Marie manages to survive the hijinks and the ardor of would-be admirers. In the end, she starts to fall for one man in particular. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Marie Laforêt, Jacques Higelin, (more)
- 1960
In this routine coming-of-age drama by Henri Fabiani, a young and not quite mature man runs away from his home and yields to a job offer in a shipyard, thanks to the friendship of one of the men who works there -- and the attractive looks of a young woman who works there too. Once he has a job, the restless fellow feels that this is not everything he wants in life and his arrogant attitude gets him a royal drubbing from the woman he admires. Mortified and remorseful, he climbs up to the top of a tall crane with ominous intentions -- obviously not the best reaction to a little criticism. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Irene Chabrier, Jacques Higelin, (more)
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The rousing concert film Accordeon: Un Film de Pierre Barouh compiles a series of live, electrifying accordion performances by seven transcontinental masters of that instrument: Richard Galliano, Sivuca, Daniel Mille, Kazumi Fukagawa, Claude Nougaro, Jacques Higelin and Taraf de Haïdouks. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
