From 1972 until 1974, Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridan, along with a Chinese film crew, documented the last days of the Cultural Revolution, marking the end of an era. Read More »
Tag Archives: France
The Ditch (2010) Bing Wang, Ye Lu, Renjun Lian, Cenzi Xu
It recounts the harrowing story of life at one of Mao’s camps, at the end of the fifties, where ‘rightists’ were sent to be ‘re-educated through labor’. Read More »
The Serpent (1973) Henri Verneuil, Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda, Dirk Bogarde
Vlassov (Yul Brynner) is a Soviet spy. In France, Vlassov defects. He is whisked to the U.S.A., where Allan Davies (Henry Fonda) takes over the case. Read More »
The Burning Court (1962) Julien Duvivier, Nadja Tiller, Jean-Claude Brialy, Perrette Pradier
A group of people visit a weird old man who is a student of the black arts. Read More »
A Lovers Return (1946) Christian-Jaque, Louis Jouvet, Gaby Morlay, François Périer
A man returns to his hometown after 20 years: to the woman he loved and the man who tried to kill him. Read More »
Wooden Crosses (1932) Raymond Bernard, Pierre Blanchar, Gabriel Gabrio, Charles Vanel
The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. Read More »
Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983) Alain Resnais, Vittorio Gassman, Ruggero Raimondi, Geraldine Chaplin
Three intertwined tales. On the eve of the First World War, Count Forbek starts to build a fantastic castle in the Ardennes forest. Read More »
Personal Column (1939) Robert Siodmak, Maurice Chevalier, Pierre Renoir, Marie Déa
After one of her fellow taxi dancers is murdered by an unknown man who she met through a personal column advert Read More »
Countdown to Doomsday (1966) Marcello Baldi, George Ardisson, Pascale Audret, Christa Linder
NY private eye Jeff Milton is investigating a case of kidnapping in Caracas. Read More »
Love Letters (1942) Claude Autant-Lara, Odette Joyeux, François Périer, Simone Renant
France, 1855. Zélie Fontaine, a twenty-odd-year-old widow and the post mistress of the small provincial town of Argenson Read More »
Escape from Yesterday (1935) Julien Duvivier, Annabella, Jean Gabin, Robert Le Vigan
Pierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of money. Read More »
Arizona Dream (1993) Emir Kusturica, Johnny Depp, Jerry Lewis, Faye Dunaway
An Innuit hunter races his sled home with a fresh-caught halibut. This fish pervades the entire film, in real and imaginary form. Read More »
Calmos (1976) Bertrand Blier, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean Rochefort
Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. Read More »
The Seventh Juror (1962) Georges Lautner, Bernard Blier, Maurice Biraud, Francis Blanche
In a moment of madness a respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Read More »
The Kinky Ladies of Bourbon Street (1976) Didier Philippe-Gérard, Helga Trixi, Dawn Cummings, Nadja Mons
Following failed suicide attempts, three professional women wind up sharing a hospital room where the mysterious Maude (Dutch Trixie Heinen) comes to visit Read More »