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French Postcards
“American students go to Paris...The less they study the more they learn.”
5.1 / 10• 1979• 1h 35m•PG• English
ComedyDramaRomance
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
David Marshall Grant
Alex
Lead
Miles Chapin
Joel
Valérie Quennessen
Toni
Debra Winger
Melanie
Marie-France Pisier
Madame Tessier
Jean Rochefort
Monsieur Tessier
Blanche Baker
Laura
Lynn Carlin
Mrs. Weber
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Willard Huyck's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. French Postcards is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
