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Breathless 1960 3 and a half stars

    N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Daniel Boulanger, Henri-Jacques Huet, Jean-Pierre Melville, Liliane Robin, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Louis Richard, Philippe de Broca, Van Doude

  In director Jean-Luc Godard's first feature film, the story involves Michel Poiccard's (Jean-Paul Belmondo) run from the police after he kills a policeman and steals a car. His girlfriend is an American student Patricia (Jean Seberg) who joins him on the race against time as Michel tries to collect on a debt that will enable them to escape to Italy. This exciting film introduced the French New Wave to theaters.

Cartouche 1962 2 and a half stars

    N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Foreign / Adventure
aka: Swords of Blood

Director: Philippe de Broca
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claudia Cardinale, Jess Hahn, Marcel Dalio, Jean Rochefort, Odile Versois, Philippe Lemaire, Noel Roquevert, Jacques Charon, Lucien Raimbourg

  This Robin Hood-like swashbuckler follows a French bandit, Cartouche (Jean-Paul Belmondo), who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. He meets and falls in love with gypsy Venus (Claudia Cardinale) who eventually sacrifices her life to save him. He then has a grand old time avenging her death.

King of Hearts (Le Roi de Coeur) 1966 3 stars

    N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Philippe de Broca
Cast: Alan Bates, Pierre Brasseur, Jean-Claude Brialy, Genevieve Bujold, Adolfo Celi, Micheline Presle, Michel Serrault, Daniel Boulanger

  When a World War I Scottish soldier (Alan Bates) is sent to defuse a bomb in a town whose only occupants are inmates in an insane asylum, he finds more sanity in the asylum than he has gleamed in a world gone mad during a world war.

On Guard! 1997 3 stars

    N/R, 128 min.
Genre: Foreign / Adventure
Director: Philippe de Broca
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Fabrice Luchini, Vincent Perez, Marie Gillain, Yann Collette, Jean-Francois Stevenin, Didier Pain, Philippe Noiret, Claire Nebout, Charlie Nelson, Renato Scarpa

  Set in the late-17th century, this swashbuckling story involves the efforts of Lagardere (Daniel Auteuil) to regain the family inheritance for Aurore (Marie Gillain). During the greedy Gonzague's (Fabrice Luchini) plot to gain the family fortune 20 years earlier, Lagardere was a survivor–along with the rightful heir: an infant girl, Aurore. Now, Lagardere schemes to avenge the earlier atrocities.

Movie Quick Pick

1. Breathless (1960)
2. Cartouche (1962)
aka: Swords of Blood
3. King of Hearts (Le Roi de Coeur) (1966)
4. On Guard! (1997)

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