French Postcards
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| Paramount Pictures | Release Date: October 26, 1979 |
Starring:
Blanche Baker, David Marshall Grant, Debra Winger, George Coe, Jean Rochefort, Lynn Carlin, Mandy Patinkin, Marie-France Pisier, Miles Chapin, Valérie Quennessen
Summary:
The believable, fresh-faced characters are young naives from American colleges spending their French-English dictionaries, they compulsively seek out hundreds of monuments, romanticize the nomadic artist's life, and look for grown-up love.
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It was produced, written and directed by Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, who also wrote American Graffiti, and it has the same sharp memory for those specific moments when young people suspect they are doing certain things for the last times in their lives. So it is bittersweet, of course -- bittersweet, that indispensable street you travel through adolescence on.
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French Postcards is a minor, mechanical remembrance of insignificant times past - specifically, of days spent by (young) Americans in Paris. But it is also quite funny and the performers more than make up for the script's creaking joints: there is a freshness and vitality in the work of the largely unknown actors that is invigorating. [27 Oct 1979]
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