Comedy ·Drama ·Romance · France · 1979 · 1h 35m

French Postcards

Director

Cast

David Marshall Grant as Alex Miles Chapin as Joel Valérie Quennessen as Toni Debra Winger as Melanie Marie-France Pisier as Madame Tessier Jean Rochefort as Monsieur Tessier

Crew

Bruno Nuytten — Director of Photography Carol Littleton — Editor Lee Holdridge — Original Music Composer Gloria Katz — Writer Willard Huyck — Writer Gloria Katz — Producer

Tagline

American students go to Paris...The less they study the more they learn.

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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