Yves Vincent Movies

Seraphin Monge (Patrick Bruel) is a World War I veteran whose family was killed when he was an infant. At the end of the war, he returns to seek vengeance on the murderers. Monge is unable to carry out his revenge when the victims die before he can kill them. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

A married couple presents their separate views on the state of their marriage in this domestic drama. The two segments are titled ""My Days with Jean-Marc" and "My Nights with Francoise." ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Alain Resnais's third feature film, like his earlier Hiroshima Mon Amour and Last Year at Marienbad, is devoted to the vagaries of memory. The title character is seen only in the 8-millimeter films run over and over again by Bernard (Jean-Baptiste Thierée). A veteran of the French/Algerian war, Bernard was obliged to participate in the torture murder of Muriel, an Algerian girl accused of sabotage. He is no more successful at recapturing or altering his past than is his stepmother Helene (Delphine Seyrig), who attempts to rekindle a romance with Alphonse (Jean-Pierre Kerien). Practically everyone else in the cast follows the lead of the leads by dwelling on Things Past to the detriment of the Present. Resnais' scriptwriter on Muriel ou le Temps d'un Retou was Jean Cayrol, whose earlier collaboration with the director yielded the celebrated short subject Night and Fog. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

This is an interesting but no more than routine drama by director Raoul Andre about the fragile nature of sanity when one is under extreme duress. Set during World War II in France, the story begins when a resistance fighter is given shelter in an asylum by a friend who manages the institution. Soon after, the manager is arrested by the Gestapo, which gets the resistance fighter involved. He finds the informer who set his friend up and kills him. But then no one will believe his story about the informer and he becomes desperate enough to start losing his own mental balance. A young doctor and the daughter of one of the inmates help him keep it together, but he knows he cannot continue like this for long. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

A novel by Pierre Nord was the basis for Captain Ardant. Yves Vincent plays the title character, a two-fisted Foreign Legionnaire. Hoping to save his outpost in Morocco from being overrun by marauding Arabs, Ardant tries to find out who's been running guns to the natives. Not only does this sound like a western, but it also plays the same way. Top-billed Renee St. Cyr seems out of place as leading lady, while some laughs are provided by comic sidekick (now it really looks like a western) Raymond Cordy. Technically, Captain Ardant is on the seedy side, though the final action sequences are worthwhile. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

The Naked Woman is the mildly exploitive American title for this French filmization of the Henry Bataille novel La Femme Nue. The woman in question is Loulou (Giselle Pascal), who makes her living as an artist's model. Loulou is the live-in lover of struggling artist Pierre (Yves Vincent). When his works suddenly become famous, Pierre becomes impossible to live with. He also cheats outrageously on Loulou, even after making their union legal. On the verge of suicide, Loulou finds solace in the arms of Rouchard (Jean Davy), another artist who has loved her all along. This standard-issue romantic yarn is distinguished by the cinematography of Russian-born Michel Kelber, who also worked with Autant-Lara, Rene Clair and Jean Renoir. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide