Jean-Pierre Aumont – MRQE

Blackout

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

A black comedy of violent criminals who terrorize apartment dwellers during New York’s 1977 power blackout.

Drôle de drame ou L’étrange aventure du Docteur Molyneux

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

A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their sanctimonious cousin – an Anglican bishop who is leading a campaign against such writing.

Sweet Country

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

An American couple in Chile is drawn into the turmoil that followed President Salvador Allende’s 1973 overthrow.

Le Déserteur

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Originally released in 1939, Three Hours went under the titles Le Deseteur and Je t’attendri during its initial European run. In his last French film appearance before WW II, Jean-Pierre Aumont plays WW I soldier Paul Marchand. When his troop train is stalled for repairs in his hometown, Marchand takes advantage of the delay to visit his sweetheart Marie (Corinne Luchaire). Within the next three hours, Marchand discovers that (a) his letters to Marie have been held up by his own spiteful mother and (b) Marie has been driven from her home. With little time to spare, our hero reconciles Marie with his mother, bidding them a fond adieu as he reboards his train. By the time Three Hours was released in the U.S. in 1944, Jean Pierre-Aumont had been signed by MGM, while co-star Corinne Luchaire had been denounced by the Allied occupation troops as a collaborationist.

The Proprietor

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

An expatriated French novelist returns to Paris when she learns that her childhood home is being placed on the auction block.

Jefferson in Paris

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings, Jefferson’s attentions are diverted.

Wicked City

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A Canadian sailor becomes a fugitive for love after a night with a woman in Marseille.

Becoming Colette

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

French writer recalls her start as the country wife of a Paris publisher who called her erotic work his own.

Nana

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

In Zola’s Paris, an ingenue arrives at a tony bordello: she’s Nana, guileless, but quickly learning to use her erotic innocence to get what she wants. She’s an actress for a soft-core filmmaker and soon is the most popular courtesan in Paris, parlaying this into a house, bought for her by a wealthy banker. She tosses him and takes up with her neighbor, a count of impeccable rectitude, and with the count’s impressionable son. The count is soon fetching sticks like a dog and mortgaging his lands to satisfy her whims.

Maria Chapdelaine

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

A young woman has three suitors on her father’s logging ranch on the Quebec frontier.