Michel Dussarat Movies
- 2007
The acclaimed stage director Jérôme Savary helms this Sächsische Staatskapelle production of Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár's late 1905 operetta Die Lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow), mounted at the Semperoper Dresden and performed in 2007. The opera stars Bo Skovhus and Petra-Maria Schnitzer and features musical accompaniment by the Staatsopernchor Dresden. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
- Starring:
- Gunther Emmerlich, Lydia Teuscher, (more)
- 1983
Sam Fuller (1911-1997) directed this rather mediocre crime story about a Bonnie-and-Clyde couple -- how they got together and how they are pursued for a murder they never committed. François (Bobby Di Cicco) and Isabelle (Veronique Jannot) meet in an unemployment office, a likely place to find others in their profession: he is a cellist and she, an art historian. While there, Isabelle gets into a nasty incident with one of the clerks, and François helps her out of the office with the end result that the two continue meeting and eventually fall in love. They try to make money as street musicians, though nothing seems to work out. Isabelle then suggests they rob the three unemployment office personnel who were the most obnoxious to them, a suggestion that leads to their breaking into an apartment in which the occupant accidentally falls to his death. At first both Isabelle and the police believe she pushed the man out the window -- and the chase is on. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Véronique Jannot, Bobby Di Cicco, (more)
- 1982
The physical imperfections of Bonnie (Anemone), a woman trying to work her way up the ladder at a radio station, do not stop her from going after Ferdinand (Gerard Jugnot), a reticent, bald, and mild fellow who at first resists Bonnie's overtures, but then slowly seems to change his mind. At parties in France in the 1950s, there was "an American quarter hour" (the French title of this film) when women asked men to dance. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Anémone, Gérard Jugnot, (more)
- 1981
- R
Set in Paris, this romance centers on a pair of lovers who wrangle over whether or not they want to marry and have children. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Isabelle Adjani, Thierry Lhermitte, (more)
- 1975
This very curious completely silent comedy includes some dramatic sequences and some fairly pornographic ones. The movie is made with titles, very much in the manner of early silent films. When the virginal daughter of a railroad crossing guard is raped by a homeless drifter, instead of being rescued, she is kidnapped and taken to a Parisian whorehouse. However, a man who tries to rescue her follows and is himself kidnapped and forced to serve as a male prostitute. The two captives meet there and fall in love. They are taken away by different rich people -- he to an Arab "harem," she to a surgeon's home. Eventually, after many perilous adventures, they are able to get back together. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Mona Mour, Michel Dussarat, (more)
