French Postcards (1979)

5.1/10 • 95 min • Comedy Drama Romance

Overview

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

David Marshall Grant

Alex

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

George Coe

Mr. Weber

Mandy Patinkin

Sayyid

Christophe Bourseiller

Pascal

François Lalande

Monsieur Levert

Anémone

Christine

Véronique Jannot

Malsy

Marie-Anne Chazel

Cécile

André Penvern

Jean-Louis

Jacques Rispal

Patrick Fierry

Jean-Claude

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