The French

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The French

1982

2h 10m

Documentary

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Cameras document the backstage of the French Open.

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Glenn Kenny

New York Times

06/17/2021

Klein weaves all these moments into a story one could call spectacularly earthbound.

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Robert Abele

TheWrap

06/17/2021

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.

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Richard Brody

The New Yorker

06/07/2021

Though the film doesn't quite capture the extremes of athletic action, psychology, or sociology, it points at them alluringly.

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Loren King

Newport This Week (RI)

06/09/2022

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.

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Michael J. Casey

Boulder Weekly

05/26/2022

4/5

What Klein conveys in "The French" is what makes tennis so perfectly tennis.

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Edward Douglas

The Weekend Warrior (Substack)

05/18/2022

Thoroughly satisfying more for the stuff going on behind the scenes than the actual matches.

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Synopsis

Cameras document the backstage of the French Open.

Director: William Klein
Producer: Pascal Judelewicz
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: French (France)
Runtime: 2h 10m