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  • 1979
  • PG
  • Paramount Pictures
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 1979
  • PG
  • Paramount Pictures
  • 1 h 35 m
French Postcards

Summary 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.

Directed By: Willard Huyck

Written By: Gloria Katz, Willard Huyck

  • 1979
  • PG
  • Paramount Pictures
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 1979
  • PG
  • Paramount Pictures
  • 1 h 35 m

French Postcards

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 4 Critic Reviews
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Summary 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.

Directed By: Willard Huyck

Written By: Gloria Katz, Willard Huyck

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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.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
75
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]
By Jay Scott FULL REVIEW
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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.
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Parts of French Postcards have considerable charm, even if it is charm with the consistency of bunny-fluff.
By Janet Maslin FULL REVIEW

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Production Company NF Geria II Filmgesellschaft m.b.H.
Release Date Oct 26, 1979
Duration 1 h 35 m
Rating PG
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Tagline American students go to Paris ... The less they study the more they learn.
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