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- A Summer in Southern France - Rotten Tomatoes
Tomatometer 0 Reviews Popcornmeter 0 Ratings Charlotte has...
- A Summer in Southern France - Rotten Tomatoes
Tomatometer 0 Reviews Popcornmeter 0 Ratings Charlotte has inherited half of her uncle's funeral home in Provence. She wants to sell it for profit but Andre, the other stakeholder, wants to ...
- Romance, Drama
- Julie Engelbrecht
- Jorgo Papavassiliou
Feb 7, 2024 · The radiant South of France has enchanted viewers for decades by serving as an iconic movie backdrop, immortalising its grandeur through cinema’s lens. From thriller classics to elegantly escapist romances, some of the most beloved movies in the South of France have imprinted the effortless glamour of the Côte d’Azur onto the silver screen.
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- La Règle du jeu (1939) Director: Jean Renoir. “Put an end to this farce!” one character responds. “Which one, your lordship?” his servant replies. At a country weekend in Sologne of the Centre-Val de Loire region, the shallow bourgeois affectations of a group of upper-class wolves are damningly exposed in Renoir’s great pre-Second World War satire.
- Jour de fête (1949) Director: Jacques Tati. Life is slow and pleasant for postman François (Jacques Tati), who – despite several maladroit mishaps – is content to cycle around the village of Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre, where Tati had himself lived during the Occupation.
- Mouchette (1967) Director: Robert Bresson. Criterion. Set in an unnamed rural village (but filmed in Apt and Reillanne, both situated on sun-ripened Provençal hills), Robert Bresson’s film follows 24 hours in the life of the eponymous Mouchette – “little fly” – who is living an existence of quotidian misery.
- Le Boucher (1970) Director: Claude Chabrol. This grisly thriller pairs bourgeois schoolteacher Hélène (a chic Stéphane Audran) with meek-mannered butcher Popaul (Jean Yanne) in the pretty commune of Trémolat in the Dordogne.
Oct 16, 2016 · After the death of uncle Olivier, his estate, a small chateau in Provence and the small town's only undertaker firm in its cellar, befall equally and jointly to his local stepson André Vidal, who runs the business since Olivier semi-retired ill, and German cousin, business consul... Read all.
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- Romance
- Jorgo Papavassiliou
- 2016-10-16
Critic reviews for the film: 'A Summer in Southern France (2016)'
Last Summer is not exactly the first morally ambiguous French drama to revolve around an extramarital affair. As the two lead characters connect, gradually moving towards the status of lovers, you can sense a dangerous energy bubbling away—a feeling of lines about to be crossed, points of no return reached. Things are especially unsettling in ...
