5 posts tagged with France and 1960s.
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A Very Secret Service: Au service de la France Season 0, Ep 0
In 1960 the French intelligence service hires 23-year-old André Merlaux, a handsome and intelligent, but impressionable man with much to learn. Au Service de la France is like a cocktail of James Bond, The Office and Mad Men if all three were transported to a French context and imbued with contemporary New Wave influences. First season appeared in 2014 and the second 2016. [more inside]
Movie: Jules and Jim
Jules and Jim is a 1962 French New Wave romantic drama film, directed, produced and written by François Truffaut. Set around the time of World War I, it describes a tragic love triangle involving French Bohemian Jim (Henri Serre), his shy Austrian friend Jules (Oskar Werner), and Jules's girlfriend and later wife Catherine (Jeanne Moreau). (Wikipedia) [more inside]
Movie: The Battle of Algiers
In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government. [more inside]
Movie: Army of Shadows
An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France. [more inside]
Movie: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
A young woman separated from her lover by war faces a life-altering decision. [more inside]
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