Claude Miller

This Sweet Sickness Movies

Posted by at Jan. 2, 2022

This Sweet Sickness (1977)
French filmmaker Claude Miller's This Sweet Sickness is based on a suspense novel by Patricia Highsmith, of Strangers on a Train fame. In the original, the murder-protagonist was a psychotic, pure and simple (if such words are appropriate here!) In Miller's version, the "hero," David, is a pathetic creature, motivated by humiliation and sexual inadequacy; thus the emphasis is not on his heinous crimes but on his warped personality. The director's noirish decision to stage much of the action in the dark, or the rain, or both, is a function of David's deep depression. As in his other films, Miller uses water as an omen of evil; you've seldom seen a more foreboding swimming pool than the one in This Sweet Sickness. The film was originally released as Dites-lui que je l'aime.

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Garde à Vue (1981) Repost Movies

Posted by galmuchet at Oct. 25, 2017

Un soir de réveillon de nouvel an à Cherbourg, les corps de deux fillettes, tuées et violées, viennent d’être retrouvées dans les dunes. L’inspecteur Antoine Gallien, secondé par son adjoint Belmont, reçoit au commissariat le notaire Martinaud, notable local. Martinaud connaissait bien l’une des fillettes, et un certain mystère plane sur sa vie privée. Le huis-clos oppressant et implacable commence..

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Under Eighteen (1931) Movies

Posted by Notsaint at May 2, 2017

A poor seamstress girl sours on her engagement to a grocery deliveryman after seeing her sister's abusive marriage. Trying to help her sister pay for a divorce lawyer, she turns to a rich playboy she met at work.

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British Comedies of the 1930s Volume 1 (2015) Movies

Posted by RSU75 at July 7, 2017

British Comedies of the 1930s Volume 1 (2015). Let Me Explain, Dear (1932) + The Outcast (1934)
DVD Video | PAL 4:3 | 720x576 | 1hr 12mn + 1hr 12mn | 7.52 Gb
English: Dolby AC3, 2 ch
Subtitles: None
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance

The ebullient comedy films of the 1930s brought escape and laughter to millions of British cinemagoers, enabling veteran stars of the music-hall and theatre to reach out to a wider audience making household names of performers like Leslie Fuller, Hal Gordon, Bobby Howes, Ernest Lotinga and Gene Gerrard.

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