Movies: René Gilson

The 1984 short Barres celebrates the ingenious ways one can get onto the Paris Metro without paying....

Daniel needs some money to buy a duffle coat that is in fashion, so he agrees to work for a photographer by dressing up as Santa Claus. He discovers that it is much easier to meet girls when he is in his costume....

This film explores the experiences of some of the members of an anti-Nazi resistance group in France composed mostly of Polish immigrants, known as "La Brigade." Many of them also fought for the leftist cause during the Spanish Civil War, and for the...

In this rambling comic tale about a man and a wife, with four children, who calmly announce to the children that they want to divorce one another, it is impossible to tell who is dissatisfied with whom about what. They had seemed to be a perfect coup...

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Four high school students in Paris question the education system and try to provoke a dialogue with their teachers. A portrait of the French youth after 1968....

A young, unscrupulous director hires an actress and uses the story she tells him of her life to write his screenplay, but fires her and entrusts the leading role to someone else....

This somewhat talky French-language film concerns a goofy bunch of military types and involves them in encounters with a variety of late '60s radicals who spout off a bit. It is notable chiefly because it was about to be subjected to severe censorshi...

Against a background of music and songs by Charles Trenet, the hesitant love of Clara, a painter, and a walker, who meet on the Pont des Arts. A tribute to Trenet, a tribute to love but above all to "the city seen in its most magnificent beauty"....

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