Serge Korber Movies
- 1988
In this lifeless black comedy, Hermoine (Jacqueline Maillan) and Catarina (Alida Valli) are shocked to learn their late husband Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Aumont) was a bigamist. They combine forces to search for the hidden loot in a rambling French mansion and fend off a school of slimy, money-hungry lawyers. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jacqueline Maillan, Alida Valli, (more)
Dog Day was originally distributed in France as Canicule. In one of his last film appearances, Lee Marvin portrays a gunman on the lam with girlfriend Tina Louise. He briefly takes refuge with a farm family whose idiotic excesses make Marvin's former criminal associates seem like choirboys. The wife of the household (Miou-Miou) falls in love with Marvin, to the extent of planning his escape when the law catches up with him. Also craving Marvin's sexual attentions is the wife's sister-in-law (Bernadette Lafont), the craziest and most pathetic of the bunch. Dog Day was based on Herman, a novel by Jean Vautrin. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Lee Marvin, Miou-Miou, (more)
- 1978
Once again, the comedy team of Les Charlots takes to the screen. In this movie, five of the original Charlots are in the French Foreign Legion in North Africa. They are sent on a mission during which they are kidnapped, and from which they emerge as heroes. Now civilians, they become gamekeepers in a remote estate in the Auvergne, which is besieged by the Foreign Legionnaires, including their old commander. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Claude Piéplu, Georges Géret, (more)
- 1974
The on-again, off-again relationship between a man and a woman who first meet during a shipwreck (she is a Salvation Army soldier, he is a sailor, both are adrift) is the subject of this French film. The two meet and separate numerous times during the movie, until they are finally able to accommodate one another. In the meantime they are out of synch, each discovering a new facet of their lives to explore at just the wrong time for the other. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Annie Girardot, Bernard Fresson, (more)
- 1972
This tragic French melodrama brings to the screen the story of Marie-Louise (Anne Giradot), a woman whose love for her ex-husband will not die even though he seems to be a heartless cad. Alexandre left her, he says, because she attended a few leftist marches and demonstrations. However, he has set up housekeeping in their old neighborhood. Marie-Louise keeps hoping that he will come back to her. She is so attached to this idea that when her son finally convinces her that he will never return, the realization has dire consequences. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Annie Girardot, Bernard Fresson, (more)
- 1971
French comic Louis De Funes stars as Henri, who has a very unfortunate accident while on his way to arrange some sort of shady deal on the Italian border. He has tried desperately not to let his better impulses get control of him; nonetheless, he has already picked up a hitchhiker (Olivier De Funes) and a married woman in distress (Geraldine Chaplin) when his car runs off the road, falls over a cliff, and lands in the crown of a tree. The efforts of this threesome to cope with the situation and get rescued constitute the body of this film. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Geraldine Chaplin
- 1970
Evans (Louis De Funes) stars in this situation comedy about a man in charge of a female ballet troupe. The only other man in the house is his nephew Philippe (Olivier De Funes). One of the former residents becomes pregnant, and anonymous note labels the nephew as the father. Evans seeks out the girl only to find she has another child as well. He soon gets roped into becoming a nursemaid to the squalling infant and the year old child. The part of the nephew is played by Louis' son, and the film features several songs and dances. the role of Evans is played with a more restrained manner by the popular French comic. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Starring:
- Louis de Funès, Noëlle Adam, (more)
Seven accomplished directors being their unique visions of Giovanni Boccaccio's medieval allegorical work to the screen by placing the erotically charged tales in a contemporary setting. Bernard Clarens, Jean Desuilles, Serge Korber, Jean Herman, Louis Grospierre, Francois Reichenbach, and Miklos Jansco each take the helm to direct segments featuring Dick Brown, Pamela Walbart, Grace Moran, and Tom Heaton. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- 1968
A young woman living on the Left Bank of Paris is a pickpocket and a prostitute. Running away from a man she has robbed, she sees a young street photographer and plants the stolen wallet on him. Before she goes to prison, the two fall in love. Upon her release, they are married and things look rosy until she reverts to thievery to earn money for her husband's studio. She then commits murder to hide her shady past (she is already married to another man) from her naive partner. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Starring:
- Dany Carrel, Jacques Perrin, (more)
- 1967
Goubi (Jean Lefebre) is the local village idiot, known by all, who dreams of someday going to Paris. When some locals learn of Goubi's wish, they put him in a truck and drive him to the city of lights. Goubi meets a hooker with a heart of gold and a lost orphan boy as he experiences his adventures in Paris. The locals soon miss the kindly Goubi, and the lovable idiot tries to make it back home. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Starring:
- Dany Carrel, Jean Lefebvre, (more)
- 1965
Francois Jean Louis Trintigant is a window washer who mistakes the pretty maid Marie Marie Dubois for the wealthy lady of the house in this romantic comedy. He follows her to a castle that is run by her parents as a tourist attraction, but Francois believes she lives there. The two meet and fall in love, spending the day on an idyllic bicycle ride to Paris. By the time they both realize the other is not rich, the two decide that love is the greatest gift of all. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marie Dubois, (more)
