Film

French Postcards

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

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

IMDb

5.8

Metacritic

77

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.

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

Laurence Lignières

Madame Levert

• Willard HuyckDirector · Writer
• Gloria KatzWriter · Producer
• Bruno NuyttenDirector of Photography
• Lee HoldridgeOriginal Music Composer
• Carol LittletonEditor
• Margot CapelierCasting
• Marion DoughertyCasting
• Mary GoldbergCasting
• Gretchen RennellCasting

Release date

October 19, 1979

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

PG

Genres

Comedy, Drama, Romance

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