Author Grant Bromley

“How old are you?” Henri Ferré, Jean Gabin’s character in Henri Decoin’s Razzia sur la chnouf (1955), regularly asks women.  One replies, "What does it matter? We age quickly in this life."  Each woman f...

I don't need no money, fortune, or fame. I've got all the riches, baby, one man can claim. -The Temptations, “My Girl” Charles Shyer’s Father of The Bride (1991) – more a contemporary reimagining of the p...

In 1959, François Truffaut's Les quatre cents coups (The 400 Blows, 1959) presented delinquent childhood in a manner that allowed for its lead actor, the 14-year-old Jean-Pierre Léaud, to become a star seemingl...

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time ...

“Man’s favorite sport?” The answer, presumably, in the world of Howard Hawks, is “woman”. At least, that’s what’s on the surface in Hawks’ work. One doesn’t have to look much further for evidence of that than t...

“Life’s a gas. I hope it’s gonna last.” – T. Rex, “Life’s a Gas” Wearing only pantyhose over underwear, an androgynous child (Stanislas Robiolle) finds an aerosol can of hairspray on the headboard of his pa...