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French Postcards

French Postcards

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 19, 1979

Runtime

1h 35m

Genres

Comedy, Drama, Romance

User Score

48%

Original Title

French Postcards

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures, NF Geria II Filmgesellschaft m.b.H.

Director

Willard Huyck

Description

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.