I saw this film at Birmingham Arts Centre when i was 19 or 20 and don’t remember much about it, other than feeling envious about all these lovely French women he was loving. And how they all seemed to fall easily into his lap, loving him up too. Why can’t i have his irresistible seductive [...]
I was charmed by this film when i saw it about 15 years ago. A gangster movie with Charles Aznavour that isn’t really a gangster movie. It still had the charm. There’s the funny plinkety-plunk song at the beginning, “Quelle avanie… Ah! Ah! Ah!…” sung by a bloke bobbing up and down like a loony. [...]
You might be having one of those fantasies about watching a cosy French film on a rainy Sunday. You want to shut your door on the world, get the fire going, lie on the sofa eating kettle crisps with your favourite slipper socks on. This is probably that French film you’re fantasizing about. It’s got [...]
I didn’t find being a boy or being a boy in school remotely appealing. So i don’t like films about boys in school much. Even if they’re trying to be cheeki boys. Fiddling under desks. Playing with matches. Drawing beards on glamorous ladies chins. Shooting their pea shooters. Cus mischiefmaking is what mischiefmakers gotta do [...]
