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The French
Directed by
William Klein
1982
2h 10m
NR
Documentary
7.4
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For the very first time, a documentary team is allowed to shoot sequences in the backstage of the French Open of tennis of Roland-Garros.
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Cast of The French
Arthur Ashe
Self
Marcel Bernard
Self
Björn Borg
Self
Don Budge
Self
Philippe Chatrier
Self
Henri Cochet
Self
Jimmy Connors
Self
Chris Evert
Self
Ivan Lendl
Self
Jean-Pierre Loth
Self
Hana Mandlíková
Self
John McEnroe
Self
Ilie Năstase
Self
Martina Navratilova
Self
Yannick Noah
Self
Victor Pecci
Self
Fred Perry
Self
Virginia Ruzici
Self
Ion Țiriac
Self
Thierry Tulasne
Self
Guillermo Vilas
Self
The French Reviews
New Yorker
Richard Brody
Though the film doesn't quite capture the extremes of athletic action, psychology, or sociology, it points at them alluringly.
Newport This Week (RI)
Loren King
Whether you are an ardent or a casual fan of tennis, you can't take your eyes off the engrossing 1982 verité documentary The French.
Movie Nation
Roger Moore
Doesn't so much tell a story as capture a moment from a more innocent age...you'd be hard-pressed to find this kind of access to today's athletes on film
TheWrap
Robert Abele
It's Klein at his most conservatively verité and least pointedly judgmental, but he still offers up a tapestry of personalities, playing, and performing that captures what is ineffably beautiful and edgy about tennis.
Boulder Weekly
Michael J. Casey
What Klein conveys in "The French" is what makes tennis so perfectly tennis.
New York Times
Glenn Kenny
Klein weaves all these moments into a story one could call spectacularly earthbound.
The Weekend Warrior
Edward Douglas
Thoroughly satisfying more for the stuff going on behind the scenes than the actual matches.
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