Classic French Comedies

Classic French Comedies

Travel back to '50s and '60s France with this trio of newly restored romantic comedies from Marc Allégret and Jacques Doniol-Valcroze. The films' stars include a young Brigitte Bardot, Bernadette Lafont, Jean Marais and Jeanne Moreau.

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Classic French Comedies
  • A Game for Six Lovers (L’eau à la bouche)
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    A Game for Six Lovers (L’eau à la bouche)

    A Game for Six Lovers (L’eau à la bouche)

    Directed by Jacques Doniol-Valcroze • Drama • With Bernadette Lafont, Françoise Brion • 1960 • 84 minutes

    One of the founders of the epochal film magazine Cahiers du cinema, and therefore a prime mover of the French New Wave, Doniol-Valcroze joined all the upstart critics making films in the lat...

  • Julietta
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    Julietta

    Julietta

    Directed by Marc Allégret • Drama • With Jean Marais, Dany Robin, Jeanne Moreau • 1953 • 97 minutes

    JULIETTA is a romantic comedy with the whimsical energy of a hummingbird. Dany Robin stars as the eponymous demoiselle, a flighty, impulsive pixie in white gloves who is engaged to an older prince...

  • School for Love
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    School for Love

    School for Love

    Directed by Marc Allégret • Drama • With Jean Marais, Brigitte Bardot, Isabelle Pia, Yves Robert • 1955 • 96 minutes

    Brigitte Bardot was only 20 when she starred in this adaptation of a 1920 Vicki Baum novel. She’s Sophie, one of a platoon of young music conservatory students in postwar Vienna, ...

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