France Dougnac Movies
- 1987
Juillet (Laetitia Gabrielli) is a young orphan girl who returns to the town she was born in to find her mother. She tries to befriend her yuppie neighbors Marie (Anne Parillaud) and Jacques (Eric Damain) with comic consequences. The thrilling part (supposedly) of the film finds Marbas (Daniel Desmars) as a timid psycho killer who targets pretty young women. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Laetitia Gabrielli, Daniel Desmars, (more)
- 1978
Like other young men in his soccer-obsessed town, a belligerent and rebellious factory worker Francois Perrin plays on a local team. His obnoxious tendencies endear him to no one. Trouble brews when a woman cries rape and the team's star player becomes the chief suspect. To protect the valued kicker, the team owners decide to frame the boorish Francois for the crime. As a result, he loses his job, gets booted from the team and tossed into jail. Shortly thereafter, the team is en route to a key match and their bus gets into an accident (in one of the story's comical highlights) that disables half the team. Now desperate for players, the owners arrange to get Francois temporarily released. The rest of this lively French farce follows Francois as he gets sweet revenge upon all those who wronged and rejected him. The screenplay was penned by distinguished writer/director Francis Veber, who is best known for writing La Cage aux Folles. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Patrick Dewaere, France Dougnac, (more)
- 1977
The 14-year-old younger sister of a 20-year old girl who died in a horrible accident remembers her sister in a series of flashbacks and compares them to what she is able to discover about the older girl, who was considered by the family to be a bit of a black sheep. This sentimental drama about upper-class life was based on the novel by Claire Gallois. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Aude Landry, Serge Reggiani, (more)
- 1975
During World War II, Denis (Olivier Jallageas), a schoolboy, goes to visit some soldiers in a military hospital. There, he meets the nun Clotilde (France Dougnac) whom he immediately likes. The chemistry between them is so strong that they begin an affair. Though others suspect something is not quite respectable between them, they manage to see quite a lot of one another before they are discovered. The boy is then sent off to a strict boarding school and the nun leaves her religious community in order to wait for him. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- France Dougnac, Olivier Jallageas, (more)
- 1971
Imagine, for a moment, that a town in the American Old West was founded by and for French people, and that two of the sexiest women in modern times were rivals for control of that town. In Les Petroleuses, Frenchy (Brigitte Bardot) and Maria (Claudia Cardinale) are at war over an oil lease. Maria and her gang of train-robbing brothers got a poor haul on their last robbery. The only thing they found was one measly case with a geological map indicating that a nearby farm was a likely oil-drilling site. It's too bad for Maria that Frenchy has the deed to the farm. While the two of them feud over this and other issues, the bumbling local sheriff is desperately trying to learn French, so that he can woo one of these extraordinary dames. This film sounds as though it was intended as a comedy, but it was made as a perfectly straightforward, serious Western. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Brigitte Bardot, Claudia Cardinale, (more)
