French Postcards (1979)
American students go to Paris...The less they study the more they learn.
95 min
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.
- Release date
- October 19, 1979
- Country of origin
- United States, Germany
Cast
- Miles Chapin as Joel
- Blanche Baker as Laura
- David Marshall Grant as Alex
- Valérie Quennessen as Toni
- Debra Winger as Melanie
- Mandy Patinkin as Sayyid
- Marie-France Pisier as Madame Catherine Tessier
- Jean Rochefort as Monsieur Tessier
- Lynn Carlin as Mrs. Weber
- George Coe as Mr. Weber
Crew
- Willard Huyck · Director
- Willard Huyck · Writer
- Gloria Katz · Writer
- Gloria Katz · Producer
- Lee Holdridge · Composer
- Bruno Nuytten · Cinematographer
- Carol Littleton · Editor
- Margot Capelier · Casting director
- Marion Dougherty · Casting director
- Mary Goldberg · Casting director
- Gretchen Rennell · Casting director