Grazia is a mother of three who spends suffocating days packing fish while her husband Pietro is at sea. Read More »
Tag Archives: France
The Alibi AKA L’alibi (1937) Pierre Chenal, Erich von Stroheim, Albert Préjean, Jany Holt
Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster Read More »
Summer Hours AKA L’heure d’été (2008) Olivier Assayas, Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jérémie Renier
In a small town, Hélène is a family matriarch who has devoted her life to preserving the legacy of her artist uncle. Read More »
A Woman in White AKA Journal d’une femme en blanc (1965) Claude Autant-Lara, Marie-José Nat, Jean Valmont, Claude Gensac
Claude Sauvage, a tenacious young gynecologist takes a months long internship in a Paris hospital. Read More »
The Prince That Contemplated His Soul AKA Bab’Aziz (2005) Nacer Khemir, Parviz Shahinkhou, Maryam Hamid, Golshifteh Farahani
Bab’Aziz – The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul is the story of a blind dervish Read More »
Things AKA Zihron Devarim (1995) Amos Gitai, Gabi Beniashvilly, Samuel Calderon, Helena Cherkasov
Can you find peace in this lifetime, asks one character in a wake Read More »
Malevil (1981) Christian de Chalonge, Michel Serrault, Jacques Dutronc, Jacques Villeret
In southern France, in a quite little town, the mayor, who also owns a castle with some cattle Read More »
Water Easy Reach AKA En dag til i solen (1998) Bent Hamer, Eric Magnusson, Nicholas Hope, Ingrid Rubio
Almar is stranded on the shore of an island in the Mediterranian sea, when his ship leaves without him. Read More »
Among the Living AKA Aux yeux des vivants (2014) Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury, Anne Marivin, Théo Fernandez, Francis Renaud
A woman shuns away kids asking for trick or treat on Halloween while her husband Read More »
To Die Like a Man AKA Morrer Como Um Homem (2009) João Pedro Rodrigues, Chandra Malatitch, John Jesus Romão, Ivo Barroso
A transgender woman tries to erase any past history of herself as a male. Read More »
Le bal (1983) Ettore Scola, Étienne Guichard, Régis Bouquet, Francesco De Rosa
The 50 year story of a ballroom in France, from the 1920s. The people who go there is always Read More »
L’amour nu (1981) Yannick Bellon, Marlène Jobert, Jean-Michel Folon, Zorica Lozic
An educated woman, with good prospects falls in love with an oceanographer. Read More »
Enough Rope AKA Le meurtrier (1963) Claude Autant-Lara, Gert Fröbe, Marina Vlady, Robert Hossein
Based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Blunderer. Read More »
Trapped by Fear AKA Les distractions (1960) Jacques Dupont, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alexandra Stewart, Sylva Koscina
Two French paras who had lived through deadly situations in Algeria, meet again in civil life. Read More »
The Bill AKA L’addition (1984) Denis Amar, Richard Berry, Richard Bohringer, Victoria Abril
For having wanted to defend a young girl accused of theft, a comedian finds himself in prison. Read More »