Richard Morgieve Movies
- 2003
Christophe Blanc's coming-of-age film Une Grande Fille Comme Toi (A Big Girl Like You) charts the life lessons learned by a young girl living on her own in Paris. Sabine (Mercedes Cecchetto) is a large-chested, attractive 16-year-old attending a catering school. Her natural rebelliousness, along with her zest for sex, leads to her being expelled. She goes to Paris where she soaks up the party scene, but rarely worries about everyday concerns like a job. After fielding an offer to make a pornographic movie, Sabine begins to examine how she will fit into the world. A Big Girl Like You screened at the Berlin Film Festival. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Mercedes Cecchetto, Laura Locatelli, (more)
- 2002
Charlotte Silvera's Girls Can Get Away With Anything is about a young girl who acted in a film. Eight-year-old Judith (Thylda Bares) was plucked from everyday life to act in a film that was made in Paris. After returning home from the experience, she finds that her parents' marriage is on the rocks. She makes her way back to Paris with her friend Nora (Nora Rotman), and the two of them do what they can to survive. Girls Can Get Away With Anything was shot on digital video and was screened at the Paris Film Festival. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Thylda Bares, Nora Rotman, (more)
- 2000
Christophe Blanc directs his nuanced character study of a nurse, wife, and mother of three who is on the verge of a breakdown. After learning that her husband of 15 years is having an affair with his young slatternly secretary, Francoise (Agnes Jaoui) throws her spouse out on his ear and starts frequenting seedy bars. As she slowly disconnects from her job and her children, she starts hanging out at boxing rings, having cheap and easy sex. and eventually ending up in the same hospital where she works. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Agnès Jaoui, Serge Riaboukine, (more)
- 1997
Edward (Terence Stamp) is an editor in a small English publishing house. The story concerns what happens when he receives a very good manuscript from Nicholas (Daniel Mesguich), an old friend, who up until now has been a hack writer. The manuscript sheds light on events both men lived through, and Edward comes to the conviction that it reveals that it was Nicholas who raped the woman Edward loved, and that he is therefore responsible for her subsequent suicide. Very carefully, he plots his revenge. This film is in a mixture of French and English, without subtitles. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Terence Stamp, Daniel Mesguich, (more)
A poor orphan grows up to be the toast of Paris when his quirky fashion designs become the rage. Filled with earthy, slapstick humor, this comedy chronicles his ride down the road of success. Fausto Barbarico (Ken Higelin) lost his folks during a biking accident and so was sent to a Paris orphanage. There he becomes best friends with Raymond (Francois Hauteserre), who, much to Fausto's delight, is a bad influence. Once he is of age, Fausto is sent to become the apprentice of Mietek (Jean Yanne), a kindly Jewish tailor who quickly becomes Fausto's mentor. Fausto has talent as a tailor and begins designing creative and kooky clothing as a way of promoting Mietek's shop. Romance comes for Fausto after he is asked to design a dress for the butcher's beautiful daughter. Trouble also arrives after Raymond suffers a terrible accident and is seriously injured while wearing one of Fausto's more outlandish designs. Originally released as Fausto, this film is known as A La Mode in the U.S. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ken Higelin, Jean Yanne, (more)
- 1982
A man is left grieving for his dead family after they were shot down in a train station, innocent bystanders to a robbery gone wrong. They were never vindicated since the police seem unable (if not reluctant) to solve the case. Driven in part because he survived and they did not, and frustrated with the inept police, the man starts his own investigation with the aid of a right-wing organization that advocates citizens' militias. He discovers that a woman who also survived the train-station massacre has a brother with blood on his hands -- he is clearly the mastermind behind the "robbery" killings -- staged to effect the politically-motivated assassination of one particular man. He and the woman join ranks to bring the brother to justice, but soon they themselves are being hunted down because they know too much. The right-wing group comes on the scene again, catalyzing a final showdown that seems inevitable from the beginning. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Claude Brasseur, Veronique Genest, (more)
