Gaby Morlay – MRQE

Jeanne

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Anna

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Anna is a 1951 Italian drama film directed by Alberto Lattuada and starring the same trio as Bitter Rice: Silvana Mangano as Anna, the sinner who becomes a nun; Raf Vallone as Andrea, the rich man who loves her; and Vittorio Gassman as Vittorio, the wicked waiter who sets Anna on a dangerous path. Silvana Mangano’s real sister, Patrizia Mangano, acts as Anna’s sister on the film. Sophia Loren has got a small uncredited role as a nightclub assistant. Future film directors Franco Brusati and Dino Risi cowrote the script. [Wikipedia]

Il était une fois

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A poor disgraced girl, belonging to a gang of criminals, is morally transformed by a cosmetic operation that makes her beautiful.

Quadrille

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The battle of the sexes as drawing room social satire. Philippe, a middle-aged newspaper editor, has lived for six years with Paulette, a successful stage actress. He tells her friend Claudine, a realistic and enterprising reporter, that he’s thinking of proposing. Into the mix steps Carl Erickson, a charming Hollywood matinée idol in Paris briefly. He meets Paulette, sees her act (his box seat compliments of Philippe), and sets out to seduce her. The next two days bring talk, tears, separation, despair, surprises, and, perhaps, reconciliation as characters speak “exactly half the truth.” It’s a quadrille of changing partners.

Le Plaisir

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women – pleasure and youth. Then comes the long tale of Mme Tellier taking her girls (whores) to the country for attending her niece’s communion – pleasure and purity. And lastly, Jean the painter falling in love with his model – pleasure and death.

Fortunat

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

During WW2, a posh bourgeois woman (Morgan)is compelled to live under the same room as a crude simple-minded yet big-hearted man.(Bourvil) Her husband was arrested by the Gestapo and she is a hunted woman.

Gigi

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Gilberte is a sixteen year old girl raised by her aunt and grandmother to be a demimondaine. But she’s not ready for that yet, and spends her days in lessons and in teasing Mamita’s old friend, the rich playboy Gaston LaChaille, and following his affairs from afar. But when Gaston throws off his latest mistress, it looks as if Gigi just might be ready to begin her destined career.

Collégiennes, Les

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A beautiful and sophisticated teenager is placed in a regimented French girls’ boarding school after her father apparently commits suicide over a business scandal. She immediately gains admirers — a lustful middle-aged artist, a handsome young composer, a fellow female student — as well as a jealous rival. With the help of her schoolmates, she attempts to elope with the composer, but the adults catch on to the plot, and she is locked into her room at night.

L’impossible Monsieur Pipelet

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A story about a simple old man with a lot of love for his only daughter. She falls in love with a doctor’s son and he don’t understand why…

Papa, maman, la bonne et moi…

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000