Director: Nadine Trintignant (1971)
French filmmaker Nadine Trintignant writes and directs the 1971 drama Ça N’Arrive Qu’Aux Autres (It Only Happens to Others), based on her real-life experiences with actor husband Jean-Louis Trintignant. Catherine (Catherine Deneuve) and Marcello (Marcello Mastroianni) lose their baby daughter Camille to a deadly illness. In order to mourn their loss, they [...]
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau (1971)
Tells the adventures of a couple who travel across France during the Revolution of 1789. They give the slip to sans-Culottes, royalists and Breton insurgents, and end up as prince and princess of the Empire.
With: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marlène Jobert, Laura Antonelli.
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Director: Gérard Oury (1971)
Mock-heroic adventure: a powerful and dishonest noble is banished from the royal court. He seeks revenge by disguising his valet as a noble returning from exile. Events turn against him and master and valet undergo a series of extraordinary adventures.
With: Louis de Funès, Yves Montand, Alice Sapritch.
Director: Louis Malle (1971)
Louis Malle spawned controversy with this semi-autobiographical film of 1971 set in Dijon. It concerns the sexual initiation of a precocious, academic, wealthy French adolescent (Benoit Ferreux), a process that’s assisted at one crucial point by his sensuous Italian mother (Lea Massari), while undergoing treatment for a heart murmur. Its spirit is [...]