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French Postcards

1979 · 95 min

A gentle, sunlit wander through Paris with naive students learning love and life, more charming than dramatic.

Tagline
American students go to Paris...The less they study the more they learn.
Overview
French Postcards rings both comic and true. The believable, fresh-faced characters are young naives from American colleges spending their French-English dictionaries, they compulsively seek out hundreds of monuments, romanticize the nomadic artist's life, and look for grown-up love. The French tutor them well, as befits their reputation. Jean Rochefort is the harassed headmaster with a hankering for affairs, and Marie-France Pisier is his very sexy wife. Watch for a newcomer named Debra Winger, and another-Mandy Patinkin.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • coming-of-age
  • love
  • identity
  • education
  • friendship
Places
  • big city
  • school
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour6
Realism7
Romance6
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity4
Emotional weight4

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Details

Genres
comedy, drama, romance
Directed by
Willard Huyck
Written by
Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz
Starring
David Marshall Grant, Miles Chapin, Valérie Quennessen, Debra Winger, Marie-France Pisier, Jean Rochefort, Blanche Baker, Lynn Carlin
Music
Lee Holdridge
Cinematography
Bruno Nuytten
Runtime
95 min
Country
France, Germany, United States of America
Languages
French, English

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