Sans toit ni loi

Varda films Bonnaire as a vagabond in the South of France in winter, in the not glamourous part, with rough desolate landscape, walking to her death, and seen through the various people she meets along the way.

Planet terror

Inspired by early 80s horror flicks and Carpenter, lots of blood and nasty needles, with some funny bits, with the scratchy picture of Grindhouse style, the initial trailer for Machete is probably the best bit, but overall very cool and fun, but short of the greatness of Death Proof.

The Bourne Ultimatum

I thought it was the best when I saw it in Laguna Beach, but in retrospect it is no more than a re-ash of the second one, which i much prefer. There are some good action scenes and baddies with the CIA, but has already been done before.

Vivre sa vie

A very dry and dark Godard, is first dealing with prostitution and sounds more like an essay than his other films of the period.

The Bourne Identity & Supremacy

Not seen back to back as they are quite tiring films to films to watch with relentless action. I prefer Supremacy as it is mostly set in Berlin. These are truly great fun films.

A woman is a woman

As I read the wonderful Godard at work book, I'm going back through the films. This was is wonderfully charming, clever, with lots of quirky details, a great soundtrack (the Aznavour song is awesome).

Poulet au vinaigre

Jean Poiret is great as the nervy inspecteur Lavardin, who appears after a good 40 minutes and creates havoc in a small town with some nasty bourgeois. Audran is a bit annoying though, but Pauline has great tits.

La Rupture

A fairly standard Chabrol from 1970 with Stephane Audran as the barmaid who wants to divorce her nutty husband but faces Michel Bouquet the evil and very rich father-in-law. J.P. Cassel, and a naked chick, are trying to find flaws in her life, and it all ends up in a very psychedelic trip in a park.

Les innocents aux mains sales

Another vintage Chabrol, from 1975 with much better clothes, as the gorgeous Romy Schneider wears Yves Saint-Laurent throughout the film set in St-Tropez. A classic noir story, where a wife and her new lover want to get rid of the husband, but it doesn't go according to plan, with a few twists

Une partie de plaisir

Not really! A dark twisted Chabrol, with bad 70's clothes. Written and played by Gégauff, with his ex-wife, a relationship gojng very very bad with a couple of shocking moments of domestic violence. Obviously it doesn't end well.

Black widow

A noir film from fox, but filmed in Cinemascope and colour, and without many traditional noir location, as it is mostly set in apartments. Van Heflin is being framed by a psychotic girl who has been murdered. Professionally directed by the famous Nunnally Johnson.

A bout de souffle

I have never been a huge fan, and it's my favourite Godard by far, but it has a lot of merits for really changing cinema as well as being terribly charming and cool.

Je t'aime, Je t'aime

Resnais does low key sci-fi, with Claude Rich as the writer who just try to commit suicide and is used as part of an experiment to goes back in time, but the machine goes loopy. About memories and non-linearity, interesting.

Knocked up

Not particularly funny, but addresses some deep subjects in a light way.

Le Bonheur

Very unusual film, beautifully shot and edited, about a very emotional subject, but almost devoid of any emotions, and no moral judgement whatsoever.

Cleo from 5 to7

Cleo is in fact annoying and self-centered I believe and it is quite difficult to feel for her, or maybe it was because it was my second viewing. Still a strong film and not melodramatic which is good.

Peur sur la ville

Sounds awful in English, Bebel is much funnier in French, I had found memories of it and got disappointed, some cheesy scenes, some good stunts, and a fairly weak script, some nice 70s cars and flats.