Renee Passeur Movies
- 1965
In this drama, a highly principled ballet dancer loses her job and is unable to find another. In desperation she takes a job as a burlesque dancer. She becomes quite popular, but she refuses to bare her breasts. Later, after she has a tawdry affair, she faces the grim reality of what she has become and decides to go back to ballet. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1965
It is only with some reluctance that big-time hood Alphonse (Lino Ventura) allows himself to be persuaded that a major painting-theft planned by some formerly small-time gangsters is a good idea. He gives the idea his backing and support and winds up holding the bag for the crime as the others escape. On emerging from prison, he wreaks havoc on his betrayers, until a pretty girl stops him in his tracks. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Lino Ventura, Charles Aznavour, (more)
- 1965
Following up 1964's Academy Award nominated L'Homme de Rio, French filmmaker Philippe de Broca wrote and directed this big-screen adaptation of André Couteaux's novel Un monsieur de compagnie. Jean-Pierre Cassel stars as Antoine, a young man who holds the philosophy "Laziness is the mother of all virtue" close to his heart and spends many dreamy days fishing with his wealthy grandfather. But when he has a prophetic dream that the old man will die impoverished, Antoine is motivated to change his life and try to earn his own money. Also starring Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Pierre Marielle, Un monsieur de compagnie was released in the United States in 1966 under the title Male Companion. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jean-Claude Brialy, (more)
- 1955
Chiens Perdus sans Collier (Lost Dogs without Collars) is a small-scale venture from director Jean Delannoy, who at the time was more closely associated with more elaborate efforts. Like many American films of the period, Delannoy's picture deals with the ever-growing problem of juvenile delinquency (the film's title is symbolic). Jean Gabin plays a white-haired judge who feels that the basic cause of teenaged crime is lack of parental love and supervision. His thesis would seem to be borne out by the cases of three young "lost dogs," whose desperate desire to "belong" ends in tragedy. As was his custom in the mid-1950s, Jean Delannoy handles his material with slickness but not much depth. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jean Gabin, Anne Doat, (more)
- 1953
An irate husband announces his wife's adulterous activities by placing a billboard a top his house in this comedy. He then begins to organize a society of cuckolded spouses. They design a float for the carnival parade and win first prize. In the end the errant wife returns and the husband makes a serious, final speech about the potential costs of her threatening to leave him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
