Jeanne Allard Movies
- 1980
This psychological drama turns into a horror story, creating a strong dichotomy that is not easily reconciled. A divorcee (Florence Giorgetti) and a widower (Renaud Verley) meet in a psychiatric hospital where they are both undergoing treatment. She is having a hard time after her divorce, and he feels responsible for the accident that killed his wife and child. Since they are both artists and mutually sympathetic, a tentative liaison starts up between them. He also has a fascination with snails. After her ex-husband kills himself, the divorcee breaks off her relationship with the widower, and he has to be institutionalized again. Just when she begins to recuperate and decides to renew their relationship, everything takes another turn for the worse. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Florence Giorgetti, Renaud Verley, (more)
- 1975
Anxious to impress his colleagues, a young and not yet fully trained mountain guide attempts to scale the most difficult peak in his region, the Massif des Drus. This very detailed mountain-climbing drama reveals much about this sport. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Pierre Rousseau, Georges Claisse, (more)
- 1969
French New Wave filmmaker Agnes Varda writes and directs the intellectual drama Les Creatures. Michel Piccoli plays a novelist who gets in a severe car accident. He is injured and his wife (Catherine Deneuve) is rendered mute. They move to a small village on an island in order to recuperate, and for the husband to write his novel. He uses characters based on the townsfolk on the island. He meets a young man (Jacques Charrier) who is building a machine. They play chess and engage in a violent fight. The wife gives birth and regains her speech, and it is apparent that the young man only existed in the husband's imagination. The conclusion involves a futher distortion of fantasy and reality as the writer finishes his novel. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, (more)
- 1962
Louis Malle directed this drama about the toll fame takes upon a women pursuing a May-December romance. Jill (Brigitte Bardot) is a lovely 18-year-old girl who lives with her mother on a comfortable estate in Lake Geneva. Jill has dreams of some day becoming a ballet dancer, but her immediate concerns often focus upon Fabio (Marcello Mastroianna), a attractive older man who publishes a magazine and has married one of Jill's closest friends, Carla (Ursula Kubler). In time, Jill decides Fabio will never love her, and she runs away to Paris to study dance. While her career in ballet never pans out, she becomes an immediate success as a fashion model, and goes on to become a top film star. Five years after leaving home, Jill has become weary of fame, and comes home to her mother's home to rest. Jill discovers that Fabio and Carla have divorced, and he now takes a very keen interest in her. While stardom has now made Jill desirable to Fabio, it also attracts the attention of the world's press when word gets out that the screen goddess is dating a man almost fifteen years her senior. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Brigitte Bardot, Marcello Mastroianni, (more)
