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Franck Poupart is a slightly neurotic door-to-door salesman in a sinister part of Paris’ suburbs. He meets Mona, a teenager, who’s been made a prostitute by her own aunt. Franck would like to change his life and also save Mona from her aunt. Murder is the only solution.

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Jim Thompson wrote dark thrillers that were turned into some superb films (The Getaway-Peckinpah, 1972; Pop. 1280, as Coup de torchon-Tavernier, 1981; The Grifters-Frears, 1990). In 1979, Alain Corneau took A Hell of a Woman and made Serie noire, one of the most remarkable French crime films. The tone is very bleak, and there is a strong element of surrealistic humor. Georges Perec co wrote the script and he contributed many nonsense words and phrases to Frank Poupart’s role

Frank is a small time salesman in a Paris industrial suburb who supplements his meager earnings by stealing from his boss, Staplin. The latter has Frank tossed in jail, whereupon Mona, the seventeen-year-old girl Frank’s fallen for, pays Staplin to have Frank released. Mona’s aunt, who has been prostituting the girl to the neighbourhood men, now becomes a tempting target for robbery.

Marie Trintignant has made five pictures with Corneau; she has a dark, brooding quality (big black eyes) that is perfectly suited to this story. She plays the part of guardian-angel-cum-slut wonderfully. Bernard Blier is Staplin, the oily, dishonest boss to a T. Andreas Katsulas has a ball with his character, a guy so dumb you don’t know how he functions in this world. Patrick Dewaere, who was to kill himself only three years after making the film, is astonishing as Poupart. Just look at the desperation behind the cool exterior, the wild things he does–smashing his head against the hood of his car, or almost drowning in the bathtub. There is a savagery about his work that you don’t find in other French actors.

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Subtitles:English

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Dr. Valois has invented the “flashage”, a cure for depressed people. After having tested it on monkeys, he tries with a first human patient, Alain Durieux. This is great success, everybody’s happy except may be Alain’s wife, Jeanne, who’s worrying about the changes in Alain’s personality.

Paradis.pour.tous.1982.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-mat0.mkv

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In 20’s Spain, young low-class women want to be hired as nannies by rich families. To get milk, these women ask help to young worker Paco to be pregnant. Paco, whose wife is sterile, accepts and earns money that way.

Paco, el seguro [1979].1080p.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H264.mkv

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Everything involving Patrick Dewaere is pretty cultish, i guess, but i must confess it is a bit of a default category here : arthouse / drama / romance / comedy / politics…none of those really fit in my book…this is one of those bittersweet social satires like they used to do in 70s french cinema…above all, this is a buddy movie / road movie, with a factory worker, a journalist, and a boxer :
— gabbyheinze

Lily, Love Me (1975) -- Maurice Dugowson.mkv

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The conflict between the generations is a recurring theme in the cinema of Claude Sautet. Often as not, it is peripheral to the main drama, but in Un mauvais fils it is absolutely central, the lightning conductor in a raging emotional thunderstorm. The fraught relationship between a middle-aged father and his estranged son Bruno is mirrored by one of a gentler hue, that between a gay bookshop owner and his attractive employee Catherine, who is his adopted daughter in all but name. Bruno appears to have more in common with Catherine, a perfect stranger, than with his father, and so whilst one relationship withers, another flourishes.

Here, it is narcotics abuse that marks out the generational fault lines. Neither Bruno’s father nor Catherine’s attentive employer can understand the need for drugs and regard this as a sign of the lack of staying power in today’s younger generation – their moral position is slightly undermined by the fact that both men consume alcohol. Bruno’s own moral judgements are shown to be as flawed and trivial as his father’s and the rift that opens up between them through a mutual misunderstanding and lack of willingness to see things from the other’s viewpoint soon appears unbridgeable. Sautet is, if anything, an optimist, and the film ends not with a permanent estrangement but with the possibility of a lasting reconciliation between the generations. Blood is, after all, thicker than water.

Sautet had originally considered Gérard Depardieu for the part of Bruno but later changed his mind when he thought that the actor was too self-assured to convincingly play the fragile main protagonist. Patrick Dewaere was the ideal substitute, an actor renowned for playing tormented, multi-faceted and usually sympathetic no-hopers. As a man, Dewaere was an enigma, an affable, moody and impulsive force of nature – he had a massive falling out with the media around the time he made this film (the result of his punching a journalist) and he took his own life (for reasons that remain unknown) just a few years later. As an actor, he was virtually unrivalled at the time he was working, certainly one of the most talented and charismatic actors in French cinema, although his professional reputation was tarnished somewhat by his temperamental personality.

In Un mauvais fils, Dewaere gives one of his most nuanced and engaging performances, one that expresses far more about his character than his prosaic dialogue can ever hope to do and which forces the spectator to share his sense of dislocation from the world around him. Watching Dewaere in his films is always a fascinating and moving experience, simply because the actor projects so much of himself into his screen portrayals and never gives us cause to doubt that he is living the part with every fibre of his being whilst he is in front of the camera. It is hard to imagine a more committed and instinctive actor than Patrick Dewaere. He deserves to be ranked alongside such luminaries as Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro as one of the great talents of the silver screen, tragically brief though his career was.

The four other main roles are just as well-cast and beautifully complement Dewaere’s faultless performance. The part of Bruno’s mercurial father is superbly rendered by Yves Robert, a distinguished character actor who was also an accomplished film director (his best known work being the popular La Gloire de mon père / Le Château de ma mère (1990) diptych). Robert’s portrayal is so unnervingly in sympathy with Dewaere’s that we never question that their characters are father and son. Just as commendable is Brigitte Fossey’s sensitive portrayal of a vulnerable young woman struggling (and failing) to overcome her drugs dependency, and we must not overlook the exceptional contributions from Jacques Dufilho and Claire Maurier, who bring colour and depth to their complex supporting characters.

Dewaere, Dufilho and Maurier were all nominated for a César for their performances, but only Dufilho received the award (in the Best Supporting Actor category). The film was nominated (unsuccessfully) in three other categories (Best Director, Best Design and Best Sound). Claude Sautet may have made barely a dozen films, but few would dispute that he is one of the great auteurs of French cinema, highly regarded for his meaningful, lovingly crafted explorations of the human soul. Amidst Sautet’s other masterworks, Un mauvais fils is all too easily overlooked, but it is surely one of the director’s finest achievements – as much a testament to Sautet’s skill as a film director as it is to Patrick Dewaere’s incomparable talent as an actor. Many other filmmakers have examined the inter-generational divide, but rarely with the finesse and insight that Sautet shows in this magnificent film. — James Travers (www.lefilmguide.com)

Un.mauvais.fils.1980.1080p.NF.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-SPWEB.mkv
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François Perrin plays football at the AS Trincamp. During a training session, he gets into a fight with Bertier, the team’s star, and is ordered off the field. The club’s boss, who is also a powerful businessman, takes advantage of the situation and sacks him… But Perrin’s revenge will be sweet.

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George Romero’s name may be synonymous with the living dead subgenre, but his filmography is far richer and more varied than his reputation as “the zombie guy” would suggest. Following the breakout success of his debut feature Night of the Living Dead, the director would embark upon a series of projects which demonstrate a master filmmaker with more than mere gut-munching on his mind.

Season of the Witch (released theatrically as Hungry Wives) follows the exploits of Joan Mitchell – a housewife who seeks to escape the confines of her humdrum suburban existence through a flirtation with witchcraft.

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