Tag Archives: Romy Schneider

Romy’s farewell (film: La passante du Sans-Souci – Jacques Rouffio, 1982)

Posted on October 5, 2023 by admin

‘La passante du Sans-Souci‘ (distributed in the English language markets as ‘The Passerby‘) is the last film in which Romy Schneider appeared. It is a film that the actress really wanted to make, both for personal and professional reasons. It … Continue reading →

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the improbable lover (film: Le mouton enragé – Michel Deville, 1974)

Posted on March 13, 2023 by admin

Michel Deville quietly left us and this world a few weeks ago, and his disappearance would have gone unnoticed, for me at least, if some television stations had not marked the sad event by programming some of his films. A … Continue reading →

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the revenge of an ordinary man (film: Le vieux fusil – Robert Enrico, 1975)

Posted on August 6, 2022 by admin

‘Le vieux fusil‘, Robert Enrico‘s 1975 film has a glorious history, at least from the point of view of the Cesar awards that reward the best French films. It won the award for the best film of the year it … Continue reading →

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love and real estate (film: Mado – Claude Sautet, 1976)

Posted on July 21, 2022 by admin

The most memorable scene in ‘Mado‘, the 1976 film made by Claude Sautet stars Michel Piccoli and Romy Schneider. Piccoli is Simon Leotard, the main hero of the film, a real estate businessman past his early youth and after two … Continue reading →

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not only for Romy and Jean-Louis (film: Le combat dans l’île – Alain Cavalier, 1962)

Posted on July 14, 2022 by admin

The long goodbye that we are taking from Jean-Louis Trintignant gave us the opportunity to see some of his most famous films but also a few lesser known ones. The latter category includes ‘Le Combat dans l’île‘, the feature film … Continue reading →

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Romy Schneider between docu-drama and melodrama (film: 3 Days in Quiberon – Emily Atef, 2018)

Posted on February 16, 2022 by admin

Romy Schneider is nowadays a legend. Along with James Dean, Gerard Philipe, Heath Ledger, John Belushi, Philip Seymour Hoffman, she is part of that tragic gallery of actors who lived too short and died before they could perform all the … Continue reading →

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triangular love (film: César et Rosalie – Claude Sautet, 1972)

Posted on February 10, 2021 by admin

‘Cesar et Rosalie‘, the title of the 1972 movie by French film director Claude Sautet, can easily be misleading. It is not a simple love story, or rather it is not a single love story, but two. In other words, … Continue reading →

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much more than a crime drama (Film: Garde a vue – Lino Ventura, Romy Schneider, 1981)

Posted on June 16, 2020 by admin

‘Garde a vue‘, made in 1981, brings together on screen two of the super-stars of French cinema from the ’60s and’ 70s, each of them in one of their last films, although neither their age nor their artistic form indicates … Continue reading →

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