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Obviously My Journey Through French Cinema is a lot to take in one sitting. It's also a goldmine for any cinephiles as an invaluable resource guide. Tavernier is doing us a great service here through his experience as a cinephile and a filmmaker. I am eager to check out more films that are featured in this documentary for years to come.

Advertised primarily as a complex love triangle amidst the Christian-French wars, Marie de Mezières forcefully marries a suitable heir but is deeply unhappy and quietly torn between him and other prominent men in her life.   I have become quite...

"The Princess of Montpensier" is a fine mix of many things. It's a tangled five-way romance. It's a sober history lesson. It's a rousing wartime costume drama. It's a harsh look at female royalty coming of age. Some of...