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Tag Archives: France
Looking for Cheyenne (2005) Valérie Minetto, Mila Dekker, Aurélia Petit, Malik Zidi
Cheyenne, a journalist, decides to leave Paris after being laid off and to settle down in the middle of nowhere, far from the society she hates. Read More »
Party (1996) Manoel de Oliveira, Michel Piccoli, Irene Papas, Leonor Silveira
The battle of the sexes? The forces of despair and seduction? On S. Miguel in the Azores, Rogério, a young man with old money Read More »
La poison (1951) Sacha Guitry, Michel Simon, Jean Debucourt, Jacques Varennes
Fed up with his wife Blandine, an alcoholic shrew, Paul Braconnier decides to get rid of her. Read More »
Disorder (1986) Olivier Assayas, Wadeck Stanczak, Ann-Gisel Glass, Lucas Belvaux
A group of young musicians burglarizes a shop and they kill a man. Read More »
L’été en pente douce (1987) Gérard Krawczyk, Jacques Villeret, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Pauline Lafont
Fane wants nothing but a quiet countryside life with the woman and the sweet, brain damaged brother he loves. Read More »
Simon, the Magician (1999) Ildikó Enyedi, Péter Andorai, Julie Delarme, Péter Halász
In this surrealistic movie from the director of My 20th Century, the French police seek help from Simon Read More »
Edge of the Horizon (1993) Fernando Lopes, Claude Brasseur, Andréa Ferréol, Ana Padrão
Spino, a 50-year-old pathologist, works at the city morgue. Read More »
Daddy (1973) Niki De Saint Phalle, Peter Whitehead, Rainer Diez, Mia Martin, Clarice Mary
Daddy, filmed in cooperation with movie director Peter Whitehead, discovers the connection between a father and little girl. Read More »
Salomé (1976) Teo Hernandez
A personal interpretation of Oscar Wilde Salome from three basic elements: the light, the color and the projection speed. Read More »
To Commit a Murder (1967) Édouard Molinaro, Louis Jourdan, Senta Berger, Edmond O’Brien
Charles Beaulieu, who served as an Army officer during the Algerian War, has become a novelist. Read More »
Polar (1984) Jacques Bral, Jean-François Balmer, Sandra Montaigu, Pierre Santini
This film noir tends to stay within very conventional plot lines, as the narration by the main protagonist Read More »
The Erl King (1931) Marie-Louise Iribe, Joë Hamman, Mary Costes, Rosa Bertens
A young man races to save his son’s life, but death – incarnated in the child’s imagination as the titular Erl King – calls unceasingly. Read More »
The Crossing of the Rhine (1960) André Cayatte, Charles Aznavour, Nicole Courcel, Georges Rivière
Following the defeat of France by Germany during WWII, two French soldiers are taken to a German farm as forced laborers. Read More »
Tangos, the Exile of Gardel (1985) Fernando E. Solanas, Marie Laforêt, Philippe Léotard, Miguel Ángel Solá
In the sorrow of exile, a group of Argentinians in Paris seek solace and connection to their culture by staging a set of tangos. Read More »