Marie-France Boyer Movies
- 1970
- R
Peter Reaney (Rod Taylor) is the successful talent agent who enjoys the things that money can buy. He also considers himself a parasite, living off the talents of his clients. When his wife Angela (Penelope Horner) walks out on him, he moves in with his friend Val (James Booth) and his wife Jody (Carol White). He and Jody engage in an adulterous affair, but Peter's main worry is doing damage control for the spoiled pop singer Barry Black (Clive Francis). Peter pays off a woman impregnated by Black in order for her to afford an abortion and keep the star's name out of the scandal sheets. Sickened by Black's behavior, he quits the agency and punches out the pop star at a personal appearance. When his friend Val dies, the hard-drinking former agent is free to pursue his romance with Jody in this seriocomic satire. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Rod Taylor, Carol White, (more)
- 1969
A pleasingly pump female gets behind the wheel of a car during a party game and has an accident. Now temporarily confined to a wheelchair, the girl is holed up in her apartment. Watching through binoculars, she sees a man in a Mardi Gras clownsuit fight with another man and flee. Somehow the clown ends up in the girl's apartment where the two make love. Later, he returns to her after the man he had fought with shoots him. Though his clownsuit is stained with blood, she allows him in once again and hopes that love has long last arrived. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Marie-France Boyer, Daniel Moosmann, (more)
- 1968
A pretty blonde woman and a writer meet on a train and strike up a conversation. He is soon to be divorced, and she is supposedly running away from ruthless gangsters. The two engage in a passionate night of lovemaking. Unknown to the man, the girl has killed her own child and is sought by the police. The writer is blinded by love and completely oblivious to the evil character of his new girlfriend. The police slowly close in on the murderess and wait for the train to make the next stop. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Marie-France Boyer, Pierre Vaneck, (more)
- 1967
The good news is that at last a scientist has discovered a way to disarm all the nuclear weapons in the world. The bad news is that he doesn't have altruistic intentions with regard to his new invention. Fortunately for fans of somewhat (?!) improbable spy movies, the professor is being sought by agents of both the Russians and the Americans, among others. The evil old professor has been keeping his daughter under wraps, almost a prisoner. He has also been keeping a mysterious sea monster in a pool on his estate, for reasons which remain unclear. What is clear is that somehow the professor's daughter will be saved, he will come to a bad end, and the world will be saved yet again from mad scientists. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Marie-France Boyer, Ben Carruthers, (more)
- 1967
A super spy must simultaneously help some secret agents and the daughter of a mad professor in this James Bond spoof. The professor is pursued by Russian and US agents because he has invented a weapon that neutralizes nuclear arms. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1967
A truck driver (Bernard Fresson) and his shop-girl sweetheart (Marie France Boyer) dream of obtaining elusive security in this plodding drama dripping with heavy symbolism. The driver falls victim to a con man who sells him a worthless truck, and the couple endures problems with the system, like labor strikes and social security delays. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Marie-France Boyer, Bernard Fresson, (more)
- 1965
Le Bonheur was French director Agnes Varda's first color film. To critics who carped that her choice of hues was not "realistic", she responded that she was choosing the hues that were best suited psychologically to her story. The film's protagonist is a young, married carpenter (Jean-Claude Drouot). He takes a mistress (Marie-France Boyer), assuming that he can be equally in love with both his wife and the new woman in his life. When the wife drowns, the mistress quietly takes her place. This plot twist is remains a subject of debate amongst Varda's admirers. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jean-Claude Drouot, Claire Drouot, (more)
- 1964
In this WW II drama set during a weekend in June of 1940, German invaders force British troops to flee Dunkirk. The French soldiers stationed on a nearby beach also want to withdraw so they too can battle the Germans, but they have been ordered to stay in place and the British are to use the boats first. Though it is a bloody conflict and many innocent residents are killed, one young woman, Jeanne (Catherine Spaak) refuses to evacuate her home. She becomes friends with one of the French soldiers, Julien (Jean-Paul Belmondo) who later saves her from being raped. The situation on the beach grows increasingly tense as the waiting soldiers are easy targets for German warplanes. Julien tries to persuade Jeanne to leave this dangerous place. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Spaak, (more)
