Michel Fabre’s Typical Vibe
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Michel Fabre has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1980s.
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Irrational Man
2015
Drama · Comedy

Léon Morin, Priest
1961
Drama · Romance

Coup de chance
2023
Romance · Drama

The Unfaithful Wife
1969
Crime · Drama

Married Life
2008
Crime · Drama

First Name: Carmen
1983
Crime · Drama

Beau Pere
1981
Drama · Romance

Phantom Thread
2017
Drama · Romance

A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard · With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger

Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming food and wine by taste, he is confronted with two disasters: his son wants to become a clown rather than a restaurant tester and he, the famous Charles Duchemin, has lost his taste!
Dir. Claude Zidi · With Louis de Funès, Coluche, Ann Zacharias
The story centers around a graduating class of "less-gifted" students in a private Versailles high school. Only a miracle has brought the students this far along, and after a practical joke misfires and the whole school is dynamited, the students are in deep trouble. They have to present themselves in court for their punishment and it could not be worse: If they don't pass their high-school graduation exams, they go to prison!
Dir. Claude Zidi · With Daniel Auteuil, Michel Galabru, Maria Pacôme
Guillaume has made it: A machine that can clean dirty air by simply sucking all dirt into air balloons and then shipping them far far away so his explanation. Some Japanese business guys, after dinner with a lot of alcohol, order 5,000 pieces. His only problem: His production capacity is way to small so he gets to produce the machines in his private house. His wife Bernadette is far from being happy about it. Her private life goes down the line so she decides to leave Guillaume and to finally have revenge she candidates for major against her husband...
Dir. Claude Zidi · With Louis de Funès, Annie Girardot, Maurice Risch
Pierre is a clumsy, overly serious math teacher at an all-girls high school. His life is thrown into chaos after encountering a beautiful British actress and the paparazzi that follow her around.
Dir. Claude Zidi · With Pierre Richard, Jane Birkin, Claude Piéplu
A group of friends are planning how to spend their summer vacation. One plans to go to the Seychelles with his American girlfriend. At the airport she dumps him for another guy. He has no money so he steals a backpack and goes camping. Somehow he meets a pretty girl and convinces her to share his tent. But a famous singer sees the girl and wants her too. He convinces the luckless guy to act like a fool and the girl leaves him and goes with the singer to the French Rivera.
Dir. Claude Zidi · With Daniel Auteuil, Guy Marchand, Grace de Capitani
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