Bruno Nuytten

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.

Decadent drifters Jean-Claude (Gérard Depardieu) and Pierrot (Patrick Dewaere), in an effort to flout bourgeois morality, go on a bizarre crime spree in director Bertrand Blier's provocative cult comedy that features an early appearance by Isabelle Huppert. The two vagabonds wander the French countryside looking for trouble -- and find it when they kidnap a jaded beautician (Miou-Miou) and cross paths with a lusty ex-convict (Jeanne Moreau).

An American group of exchange students come to Paris to study the language and culture for a year. The film depicts the various interactions between the students and the instructors, including the pretty female director of the institute where they are enrolled.