Giovanna (Monica Vitti, L’Awentura) and Franco (Jean Sorel, Belle de Jour) are lovers pretending Read More »
Tag Archives: France
Au royaume des cieux AKA The Sinners (1949) Julien Duvivier, Serge Reggiani, Jean Davy, Monique Mélinand
Story takes place in a dreadful girls’ reformatory. Read More »
Entrée des artistes AKA The Curtain Rises (1938) Marc Allégret, Louis Jouvet, Claude Dauphin, Odette Joyeux
Isabelle, Cécilia et François, sont étudiants au conservatoire d’art dramatique. Read More »
Les années lumière AKA Light Years Away (1981) Alain Tanner, Trevor Howard, Mick Ford, Bernice Stegers
A young drifter meets up with a strange old man who claims that he has been taught to fly by birds. Read More »
Les jours où je n’existe pas AKA The Days When I Do Not Exist (2002) Jean-Charles Fitoussi, Antoine Chappey, Clémentine Baert, Luís Miguel Cintra
A story that mixes fantasy, philosophy and everyday reality. Read More »
Le diable au corps AKA Devil in the Flesh (1947) Claude Autant-Lara, Micheline Presle, Gérard Philipe, Denise Grey
During World War I, underage student Francois Jaubert meets and falls in love with Marthe Grangier, who is engaged to Jacques, a soldier at the Front. Read More »
Day of Atonement (1992) Alexandre Arcady, Roger Hanin, Richard Berry, Gérard Darmon
It’s an all-out-war when a government agent tries to regain control of a turf struggle between drug lords. Read More »
Berthe Morisot (2012) Caroline Champetier, Marine Delterme, Malik Zidi, Alice Butaud
At 25, Berthe dreams of making a living from her painting, never to marry, and to always stay with her sister Edma. Read More »
Free Fall (2014) György Pálfi, Piroska Molnár, Miklós Benedek, Tamás Jordán
Seven floors, seven identically built apartments yet completely different worlds. Read More »
The Rendezvous (1961) Jean Delannoy, Annie Girardot, Andréa Parisy, Odile Versois
Pierre, a rich man’s son-in-law, shares an illicit night-time kiss with his first wife, Madeleine. Read More »
I Come with the Rain (2009) Tran Anh Hung, Josh Hartnett, Tran Nu Yên-Khê, Byung-hun Lee
Ex-Los Angeles cop turned private eye Kline travels to Hong Kong in search of Shitao, the missing son of a powerful pharmaceutical conglomerate boss. Read More »
Tough Guys (1974) Duccio Tessari, Lino Ventura, Isaac Hayes, Fred Williamson
An ex-convict priest and a framed former policeman hunt a machine-gun killer behind a bank robbery. Read More »
Monte Carlo or Bust! (1969) Ken Annakin, Sam Itzkovitch, Bourvil, Lando Buzzanca, Walter Chiari
In an international car rally, competitors must travel from various points in Europe to Monte Carlo, then race their cars. Read More »
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still (1972) Groupe Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard, Marlon Brando, Moshe Dayan, James Dean
The film’s subject is a photograph of Jane Fonda visiting Hanoi during the Vietnam War. Read More »
Manuela’s Loves (1987) Geneviève Lefebvre, Marie-Christine Barrault, Alida Valli, Guillemette Grobon
The survivor of a concentration camp finds out that her lover, a lesbian, is having an affair with a protegee. Read More »