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Depardieu and Baye meet at the peak (film: Rive droite, rive gauche – Philippe Labro, 1984)

‘Rive droite, rive gauche‘ (1984) is the last of the 9 films in the career of director Philippe Labro. I don’t know exactly why Labro, who had been a friend and film disciple of Jean-Pierre Melville, concluded his directing career … Continue reading

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running scared (film: No Escape – John Erick Dowdle, 2015)

It is impossible to comment on ‘No Escape‘, the action film made in 2015 by John Erick Dowdle and written by him with his brother Drew, without thinking about international events in the news. An American family finds itself in … Continue reading

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