Michel Lang Movies
- 1987
Nicolas (Francis Perrin) is the director of a swinging club for singles in this routine sex comedy. In addition to his own amorous conquests, he tries to help his shy friend improve his lonely love life. Nicolas eventually begins to wonder if settling down in a relationship with the right woman is the way to go. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Francis Perrin, Jean-Paul Comart, (more)
- 1984
Dale (Clio Goldsmith) is a married, expectant mother who holds down a job as a radio announcer and when a Frenchman, Maurice (Roger Hanin), telephones the station one day to correct a mistake she made in reference to the cinema, the two eventually end up agreeing to meet. Dale is part-French and this is one of the reasons for their first rendezvous. After the divorced Maurice sees Dale, he is attracted by her personality and charm, and the two become good friends, getting together whenever they can. Soon Maurice's son Bob (John Moulder-Brown) also meets Dale and is smitten by her just like his father. This adds a wrinkle to the already unstated feelings that pervade each meeting, feelings complicated by the fact that Dale does not have a very happy marriage but is unwilling to face up to it. Then one day, she goes into labor while her husband is away and in a series of comic sequences, Maurice is faced with seeing her through to a successful birth in the hospital (barely) -- an event that begins to finally resolve the many underlying countercurrents in the romantic tendencies of the protagonists. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Roger Hanin, Clio Goldsmith, (more)
- 1982
- R
The Gift was based on Bankers Also Have Souls, a play by Valme and Terzolli. To honor retiring co-worker Gregoire (Pierre Mondy), a group of bank employees pool their money and purchase a farewell gift: gorgeous prostitute Barbara (Clio Goldsmith). Since Gregoire is married to the luscious Antonella (Claudia Cardinale), one wonders what planet his friends have been on the past few years. Though it promises a great deal, The Gift is basically harmless and, at times, humorless. The film works best when it eschews sniggling sexiness and concentrates on personalities. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Pierre Mondy, Claudia Cardinale, (more)
- 1979
Students of the Paris music conservatory work at putting on an evening's entertainment in this musical comedy which has less of a lift than the dancers in some of the performances. While the students, of varying talent and origins, get their respective acts together, the mother (Leslie Caron) of one of them dallies with her daughter's boyfriend. Svelte and fit as the dancer she once was, the mother turns out to be the most talented of the lot -- though that is not a part of the storyline, just an observation. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Leslie Caron, Robert Webber, (more)
- 1978
In this sex comedy, the summer vacationers staying at a beach hotel have only one thing on their minds: sex. Whether they are pre-adolescent boys, mature housewives, young shopkeepers or bemused old-timers, they are all either thinking about it, doing something about having it, or watching with great interest the shenanigans of others. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Daniel Ceccaldi, Myriam Boyer, (more)
- 1977
- R
This French sex comedy focuses on a group of randy vacationers on holiday at a seaside hotel along the coast of Brittany. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide
- 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
French schoolboys Alain (Remi Laurent) and Jean-Pierre (Stephane Hillel) had planned on going to St. Tropez for the summer, but after failing their high-school English tests, they are sent to live with English families in a British resort town and perfect their language skills. It is 1958, and they are much more interested in girls than in another language. Eventually, though, they make progress in both departments. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Remi Laurent, Stéphane Hillel, (more)
