Yvon Guezel Movies

In cold-blooded, vigilante style, a mother exacts revenge for the deaths of her daughter and her daughter's lover in this run-of-the-mill thriller by Alain Bonnot. Jeanne Dufour (Annie Girardot) knows her daughter lives on the wrong side of the law, but when the daughter takes part in a bank robbery and is mercilessly shot down by her supposed cohorts -- who also kill her boyfriend -- the mother vows to avenge her death. Her resolve starts her off on a series of violent and calculated murders executed with no concern for possible consequences -- a dangerous attitude to assume. Within a tightly-paced story, Jeanne is remote in action and emotion, making it difficult to care about what she is doing, or why. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

In an allegorical film meant to convey the durability of a people, Vietnamese director Lam Le follows a mysterious written message to Paris, a message passed on by a female missionary and a French soldier before they die -- and meant for the eyes of a woman living in Saigon. Their moment of death came in the aftermath of the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, and the subsequent division of Vietnam into north and south in preparation for elections. For two decades, the message either invokes fear or nostalgia in the hands of many before it is placed in a crevice of a rock near the spot where the writers of the message died -- by the daughter of the woman to whom it was written. This rock is called the "Waiting Stone" and has magical qualities because it is a meteorite. Legend says that lovers and friends must both part at the "Waiting Stone" and must one day return to it, dead or alive. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

Mara (Rita Hayworth) is the lonely owner of a gas station on a remote road leading to Salina, Mexico in this psychodrama. A young hippie (Robert Walker Jr.) is mistaken for her son who had left four years earlier. He is encouraged to stay and develops an amorous relationship with his supposed sister Billie (Mimsey Farmer). He looks into the family history and discovers Billie may have killed her own brother and Mara could very well be covering up the crime. Warren (Ed Begley) and Mara dance the frug in this feature, the last for Begley who died in April, 1970 and the second to last film for legendary screen siren Hayworth. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi