Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideTwo strangers meet in Nantes (a town in France), he is a local furniture restorer, and she a visiting fabric designer. There is an immediate attraction to each other and they end up having a romantic candlelit supper together. After dinner he drives her back to her Hotel and they are both reluctant to part … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis sentimental old-fashioned French melodrama oozing with charm is a faithful remake of the 1940 original movie penned and directed by novelist turned playwright Marcel Pagnol. This time it is helmed by veteran award winning actor Daniel Auteuil making his directing debut and taking the starring role too. There are no CGI, (computer generated imagery) … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideWhen the French Peasants stormed the Bastille in Paris on July 14th 1789, their Queen Marie-Antoinette was holding Court elsewhere in the country at the Palace in Versailles. This rather resplendent and engaging costume drama follows the doomed Dauphine’s next three days fuelled by courtier’s gossip as all their lives start to fall apart. The … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis feel-good French fairy story with its funny hybrid title is about a pair of ‘untouchables’. One is Philipe a very wealthy Parisian aristocrat who is now paralyzed from the neck down after a paragliding accident, and the other is Driss an African immigrant newly released from jail and living in the projects who unwittingly … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideEli Dhrey is an insensitive boor. He’s a wealthy 60-year-old man who casually announces to his family that his much younger 2nd wife is pregnant, totally ignoring the distress of Dom his older married daughter who has desperately been trying to conceive for the past two years. His younger daughter Justine, a 27-year-old radiographer but … Continue reading
