Beau Travail 1999  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Claire Denis
Cast: Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Gregoire Colin, Richard Courcet, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Adiatou Massudi, Mickael Ravovski, Dan Herzberg
An ex-Foreign Legion officer, Galoup (Denis Lavant), reminisces about his life at an African outpost in Djibouti and how struggles with jealousy destroyed not only the new recruit Gilles Sentain (Gregoire Colin) but himself as well.
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 Jules and Jim 1961  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Francois Truffaut
Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Vanna Urbino, Marie Dubois, Jean-Louis Richard, Boris Bassiak, Anny Nelsen, Sabine Haudepin, Michel Subor, Bernard Largemain, Kate Noelle, Christiane Wagner
The moral of this film is "Watch out for what you think you want, since you may get it." Set in Paris around the period of World War I, the plot involves two writers Jules and Jim (Oskar Werner and Henri Serre). They both fall in love with beautiful Catherine (Jeanne Moreau) who is the personification of an ancient stone carving the men saw in Greece and have been obsessed by ever since. The three become inseparable friends. Jules marries Catherine, and they have a baby (Sabine Haudepin)–but Catherine still loves both Jules and Jim. The war ends, and Jim moves in with Catherine and Jules, and, with Jules approval, Jim becomes Catherine's lover. Now, just when they think they have what they want, problems ensue and lead to tragedy.
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L'Intrus 2004  N/R, 130 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Intruder
Director: Claire Denis
Cast: Michel Subor, Gregoire Colin, Yekaterina Golubeva, Bambou, Florence Loiret, Lolita Chammah, Alex Descas, Kim Dong-ho, Chang Se-tak, Park Hong-suk, Beatrice Dalle
Director Claire Denis' impressionist offering follows white-haired loner Louis Trebor (Michel Subor) who is estranged from his son, Sidney's (Gregoire Colin) family and lives in a cabin near the Swiss/French border. In need of a heart transplant, Louis undergoes a black market surgery and then heads to Tahiti in quest of another son who he abandoned years before. As in many impressionist films, the meaning of the story may rest with the individual viewer.
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Please Not Now! 1961 N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Jean Aurel, J.D. Trop, Roger Vadim
Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Josephine James, Mireille Darc, Edith Zetling, Michel Subor, Jacques Riberolles, Claude Brasseur, Serge Marquand, Jean Tissier, Bernard Fresson
Sophie (Brigitte Bardot), a model, is not at all happy when she finds out that her boyfriend Philippe is cheating on her and decides she will just have to shoot him. But Alain also loves Sophie and tries to talk her out of it and suggests that she try to get Philippe back. When Philippe takes off with his new love (after finding out what Sophie intends), Sophie and Alain take chase. A fair comedy most noted for the "nude" dance by Sophie–though she was really wearing a body sock, with the pictures being shot out-of-focus.
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| 1. Beau Travail (1999)
2. Jules and Jim (1961)
3. Le Petit Soldat (1963)
aka: The Little Soldier
4. L'Intrus (2004)
aka: The Intruder
5. Please Not Now! (1961)
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