Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- David Marshall GrantAlex
- Miles ChapinJoel
- Valérie QuennessenToni
- Debra WingerMelanie
- Marie-France PisierMadame Tessier
- Jean RochefortMonsieur Tessier
- Blanche BakerLaura
- Lynn CarlinMrs. Weber
- George CoeMr. Weber
- Mandy PatinkinSayyid
Recommendations
- 88
Chicago Sun-Times
It was produced, written and directed by Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, who also wrote American Graffiti, and it has the same sharp memory for those specific moments when young people suspect they are doing certain things for the last times in their lives. So it is bittersweet, of course -- bittersweet, that indispensable street you travel through adolescence on. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
Very modest, but surprisingly sweet. The naive escapades of a group of American students studying in France for a year is given a charming, somewhat corny treatment by the authors of AMERICAN GRAFFITI--Huyck (who also directed) and Katz. - 75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
French Postcards is a minor, mechanical remembrance of insignificant times past - specifically, of days spent by (young) Americans in Paris. But it is also quite funny and the performers more than make up for the script's creaking joints: there is a freshness and vitality in the work of the largely unknown actors that is invigorating. [27 Oct 1979] - 70
The New York Times
Parts of French Postcards have considerable charm, even if it is charm with the consistency of bunny-fluff.
