Jacques Perrin was awarded Best Actor at the 1966 Venice Film Festival for his gripping portrayal Read More »
Tag Archives: France
I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed (2005) Serge Le Péron, Saïd Smihi, Charles Berling, Simon Abkarian, Josiane Balasko
My name is Georges Figon. Okay I’m dead but, being the talkative kind, death isn’t going to stop me from speaking. Read More »
Beauties at War (2008) Benoît Poelvoorde, Olivia Bonamy, Jacques Mathou, Patrice Leconte
A ski resort town struggles to become the top tourism spot. Read More »
The Dreamlife of Angels (1998) Erick Zonca, Élodie Bouchez, Natacha Régnier, Grégoire Colin
In Lille, two penniless young women with few prospects become friends. Read More »
Little Jerusalem (2005) Karin Albou, Fanny Valette, Elsa Zylberstein, Bruno Todeschini
The Tunisian-French Laura is a young woman that lives with her Orthodox Jewish family in the Jewish community in the suburbs of Paris. Read More »
Napoleon (1927) Abel Gance, Albert Dieudonné, Vladimir Roudenko, Edmond Van Daële
A massive six-hour biopic of Napoleon, tracing his career from his schooldays Read More »
Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno (2009) Serge Bromberg, Ruxandra Medrea, Romy Schneider, Bérénice Bejo, Serge Reggiani
Henri-Georges Clouzot’s unfinished masterpiece, Inferno (1964), is reconstructed in this film which is part drama and part documentary. Read More »
Exiles (2004) Tony Gatlif, Romain Duris, Lubna Azabal, Zouhir Gacem
Two French lovers, Zano and Naima, decided to travel to the land of their parents: Algeria. Read More »
Fortini/Cani (1976) Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Franco Fortini, Luciana Nissim, Adriano Aprà
The film is a sort of presentation of Franco Fortini’s book ‘I Cani del Sinai’. Read More »
Cotton Mary (1999) Ismail Merchant, Greta Scacchi, Madhur Jaffrey, James Wilby
1954, the Malabar Coast. British and Anglo-Indian identities blur when an English-woman with a neglectful husband births a sickly baby. Read More »
Zouzou (1934) Marc Allégret, Josephine Baker, Jean Gabin, Pierre Larquey
As children, Zouzou and Jean are paired in a traveling circus as twins: she’s dark, he’s light. Read More »
Rossini! Rossini! (1991) Mario Monicelli, Philippe Noiret, Jacqueline Bisset, Sergio Castellitto
Rossini! Rossini! is a 1991 Italian biographical film written and directed by Mario Monicelli. Read More »
The Art of Breaking Up (2005) Michel Deville, Emmanuelle Béart, Charles Berling, Dominique Blanc
Lucette and Edouard: Two lovers passionate about sex, money and life. Read More »
Shun Li and the Poet (2011) Andrea Segre, Tao Zhao, Rade Serbedzija, Marco Paolini
A study of the friendship between a Chinese woman and a fisherman who came to Italy from Yugoslavia Read More »
Blue Rita (1977) Jesús Franco, Martine Fléty, Sarah Strasberg, Dagmar Bürger
Nightclub owner and erotic dancer Rita Blue uses her place as a front for working undercover as a spy. Read More »