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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis AKA Il giardino dei Finzi Contini (1970) Vittorio De Sica, Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Helmut Berger
Mussolini’s Italy, late 1930s: the Finzi-Contini are one of the leading wealthy Jewish families. Read More »
The MacKintosh Man (1973) John Huston, Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason
Joseph Rearden (Paul Newman) takes the fall for a robbery and winds up in the Scrubs. Read More »
1900 (1976) Bernardo Bertolucci, Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda
Set in Italy, the film follows the lives and interactions of two boys/men Read More »
The Inheritance (1976) Mauro Bolognini, Anthony Quinn, Dominique Sanda, Fabio Testi
Quinn plays a retired bakery tycoon, alienated from his two sons and jealously guarding his vast wealth… Read More »
A Sweet Journey (1980) Michel Deville, Dominique Sanda, Geraldine Chaplin, Jacques Zabor
Lucia and Elena are best friends since childhood. They take a car trip from Paris to the country. Read More »
A Gentle Woman (1969) Robert Bresson, Dominique Sanda, Guy Frangin, Jeanne Lobre, Drama, Romance
A young woman kills herself, leaving no explanation to her grief-stricken pawnbroker husband. Read More »
Erste Liebe / First Love (1971) Maximilian Schell, John Moulder-Brown, Dominique Sanda, Drama, History, Romance
Based on Ivan Turgeyev’s novella, Erste Liebe is about two young lovers in czarist Russia. One is a 21-year-old woman, the other a young man of sixteen. Read More »
Sans mobile apparent / Without Apparent Motive (1971) Philippe Labro, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Dominique Sanda, Sacha Distel, Mystery, Thriller
A serie of murders is comitted in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries to find a missing link between all these murders. Read More »
Yo, la peor de todas / I, the Worst of All (1990) María Luisa Bemberg, Assumpta Serna, Dominique Sanda, Héctor Alterio, Drama
A viceroy and an archbishop take their posts in Mexico. A local nun, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695), intrigues them. Read More »
Une chambre en ville / A Room in Town (1982) Jacques Demy, Dominique Sanda, Danielle Darrieux, Richard Berry, Drama, Musical
A film musical in which every line is sung. The frame is about workers during a strike. They also prepare and perform a demonstration. Two personal relations develop against this background. François abandons his pregnant girlfriend Violette. She feels treated even more unjust when he tries to defend and excuse his behaviour. He had met a very beautiful over-class girl, Edith, and both were immediately overwhelmed by genuine and reciprocal passion. Edith lived in a very unsatisfactory marriage. She was the daughter of the widow from which François rented his room. Nevertheless, he met her in the street, where she just opened her fur coat and was starch naked under it. They will be together in great passion for just one night and day. At the demonstration François is shot by the police and dies in Edith’s arms. – The music is closer to opera than in any other film musical by Jacques Demy. But the greatest difference is that he has devoted much more effort to the task of instructing the…
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