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Le pacha [Pasha / Showdown] (Georges Lautner, 1968)

Dec

19

Le pacha (1968)

Jean Gabin and Dany Carrel in a still on the cover of Serge Gainsbourg's Requiem pour un con 7” (via). DP: Maurice Fellous.

“Écoute les orgues Elles jouent pour toi Il est terrible, cet air-là J'espère que tu aimes C'est assez beau, non ? C'est le requiem pour un con”

– Serge Gainsbourg, Requiem pour un con (1968)

Adieu Philippine [Farewell, Philippine] (Jacques Rozier, 1962)

Feb

11

friendship

Adieu Philippine (1962)

Juliette and Liliane (Stefania Sabatini and Yveline Céry) walk along a promenade in a beautiful, vérité tracking shot. DP: René Mathelin.

A film about friendship for Jennifer Anniston's birthday (1969).

 

1960. Michel is due to leave for Algeria to serve in the Algerian War. Juliette and Liliane are best friends as inseparable as “Filipino almonds”(?). When they meet, the girls decide to join Michel on his final vacation, on Corsica.