August 8, 1995
Deux fois cinquante ans de cinema francais (1995) *
Michel Piccoli discusses the centennial of cinema with Jean-Luc Godard.
Le Rocher d'Acapulco (1995) **
Interesting French film about a young girl encouraged into prostitution.
Nelly et M.Arnaud (1995) **
Interesting French film about a young woman (Emmanuelle Beart) and her friendship with an older man (Michel Serrault).
Un Indien dans la ville (1995) **
A French "Crocodile Dundee", starring Thierry Lhermitte as a Parisian stock-broker, whose son (raised among Amazonian Indians), comes for a visit. It was later remade as a Hollywood film, "Jungle 2 Jungle", starring Tim Allen.
Gazon maudit (1995) **
Vulgar, but enjoyable sex farce starring Victoria Abril as a young housewife torn between her lesbian lover (Josiane Balasco, who also directed) and her cheating husband.
Poussieres de vie (1995) *
Depressing film set in a Vietnamese labor camp for Amerasian children, left behind by their American fathers after the fall of Saigon in 1975.
Le Bonheur est dans le pré (1995) **
Amusing comedy about a middle-aged man (Michel Serrault) trying to find a new life.
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