Word: broca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ahead, groan. Up to this point, Rio unreels like a bad French imitation of the standard filler thriller Hollywood produces for the shrunken-head set. But beyond this point, groans turn to giggles and giggles to guffaws. Made by Philippe de Broca, a young French director (The Five-Day Lover) of stunning esprit, the film turns out to be a clumsy but almost continually hilarious parody of the typical next-earthquake-please, throw-away-the-script-boys-this-is-an-action picture...
Director De Broca's technique is to assemble several hundred stock movie situations and fire them at the screen like soggy old lemons. In hysterically rapid succession his hero (Jean-Paul Belmondo...
...Five-Day Lover. France's Philippe de Broca has directed a gay-grim comedy of intersecting triangles in which the participants suddenly discover that the dance of life is also the dance of death...
...Five-Day Lover. France's Philippe de Broca has directed a gay-grim comedy of intersecting triangles in which the participants suddenly discover that the dance of life is also the dance of death...
...Five-Day Lover. France's Philippe de Broca has directed a gay-grim comedy of intersecting triangles in which the participants suddenly discover that the dance of life is also the dance of death...