Sophie Barjac Movies
- 1988
In this drama, an American art student is trapped amidst the political turmoil of war-torn Europe while visiting Paris and staying at the fabulous Ritz hotel. Rather than cope constructively with it all, the fellow opts to ignore it and continue living the high-life for as long as possible. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1987
In this comedy, young Moses Levy is a Hassidic Jew who lives a quiet existence, avoiding entanglement with the modern world. However, his job requires that he travel between the diamond capital of Antwerp to Paris to deliver diamond powder to an auto assembly plant. Without his knowledge, a gang of cocaine smugglers stashed some of their similar-looking wares amid his own, so as to make it past customs. When they begin taking drastic actions in order to get their stash back, Moses is forced to call on his worldly brother Albert -- a man who has left the faith -- in order to stay alive. Along the way, he almost becomes romantically entangled with a Muslim girl and has encounters with an undercover cop in drag at a club featuring transvestite performers. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Richard Anconina, Jean-Claude Brialy, (more)
- 1985
In this standard romantic drama, a tangled web of relationships may not be that easy to straighten out for the people involved. Marc (Daniel Auteuil) is a lawyer married to Jeanne (Sophie Barjac), but his roving eye leads him into sexual encounters with other women on a regular basis -- and although his wife loves him deeply, she throws him out one day when she can no longer stand his philandering. After their split, she begins a romantic fling with Antoine (Jean-Pierre Marielle), who moves in with her after awhile. At the same time, Marc meets and falls in love with Samantha (Emmanuelle Beart), a prostitute who reciprocates his feelings. Circumstances place all four -- Marc, Samantha, Jeanne, and Antoine under the same roof -- a combination of cross-references that soon threatens to disintegrate, at least in part. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Pierre Marielle, (more)
- 1983
In this romantic comedy with serious undertones, a young Frenchman agrees to marry a Polish dissident so she can escape to France and freedom at a time when she may be in danger. After their marriage in Warsaw and a honeymoon replete with Polish policemen and her real lover, the Frenchman returns to Paris to wait for her passport to come through. Soon there are problems in Warsaw, however, and he takes off by car (an air strike is on) to salvage the plan. On the way back from Warsaw, the Polish woman and the Frenchman become lovers in truth -- but their romantic liaison, although perfectly legal, is thwarted by problems beyond their control and she leaves for the U.S. One year later, the two accidentally meet in the airport while she is on her way to Warsaw again -- and are forced to decide what to do about their very uncertain relationship. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Thierry Lhermitte, Barbara Nielsen, (more)
- 1982
This stage adaptation and play on the Alice in Wonderland theme, finds Alice slipping into Wonderland when she faints after seeing an attempted murder. When she comes to, she's in another world, again chasing a rabbit. However this hopper is not the fuzzy, furry type; he's an attractive jogger named Rabbit and Alice thinks he's just the guy for her. ~ All Movie Guide
- 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
- 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)
