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Tag Archive for 'Patrick Dewaere'

Themroc (Blu-ray Review)

Some films whisper. The Themroc Blu-ray snarls. This 1973 oddity from French director Claude Faraldo trades dialogue for guttural grunts and middle fingers, ditching logic for raw provocation. It’s the kind of movie that will either hypnotize or repel — and sometimes both at once. Radiance Films has given it the kind of treatment usually […]

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Hardboiled: Serie Noire (Blu-ray Review)

Step into a squalid Parisian suburb where desperation sweats through cheap polyester, and every neon flicker spells doom. Serie Noire (1979) isn’t just noir — it’s scorched earth cinema. Patrick Dewaere practically disintegrates on screen as Frank Poupart, a door-to-door hustler unraveling in a world with no escape hatch. Directed by Alain Corneau and adapted […]

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Going Places (Blu-ray Review)

Going Places aka Les Valseuses (The Testicles) is one of Kino’s latest offerings in the realm of classic films, this being a classice French film in the sense of it being one of the highest grossing films of 1974, and the film that propelled Gerard Depardieu to stardom. I am a lover of all things […]

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