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Tag Archives: France
Les cousins (1959) Claude Chabrol, Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Juliette Mayniel, Drama
Charles is a young provincial coming up to Paris to study law. He shares his cousin Paul’s flat. Read More »
La vallée / The Valley (1972) Barbet Schroeder, Jérôme Beauvarlet, Monique Giraudy, Michael Gothard, Drama
Viviane, a French Consul’s wife, is in New Guinea to find exotic feathers for export to Paris. Read More »
The Double Life of Veronique (1991) Krzysztof Kieslowski, Irène Jacob, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Halina Gryglaszewska, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Mystery, Romance
Two parallel stories about two identical women; one living in Poland, the other in France. Read More »
A Carta (1999) Manoel de Oliveira, Chiara Mastroianni, Pedro Abrunhosa, Antoine Chappey, Drama
A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Read More »
Odissea (1968) Franco Rossi, Mario Bava, Piero Schivazappa, Bekim Fehmiu, Leonard Steckel, Constantin Andrieu, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Odysseus’ journey told in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus spends years trying to return home to Itaka. Read More »
Demonlover (2002) Olivier Assayas, Connie Nielsen, Gina Gershon, Chloë Sevigny, Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Diane works for a French firm bidding to purchase a Japanese animation outfit. Diane maliciously hatches a plot to take the job of her supervisor Karen. Read More »
Clean (2004) Olivier Assayas, Maggie Cheung, Nick Nolte, Béatrice Dalle, Drama, Music, Romance
London-based Emily Wang gained minor notoriety from her VJ-ing on cable television. Read More »
Graduate First (1979) Maurice Pialat, Sabine Haudepin, Philippe Marlaud, Annick Alane, Drama, Romance
A study of a group of young working class people in a French village, who are embarking upon adult life. Read More »
Marquis (1989) Henri Xhonneux, François Marthouret, Valérie Kling, Michel Robin, Animation, Comedy
The scene is a pre-French Revolution Bastille, where various political prisoners are being held: a woman who was raped and impregnated by the king Read More »
Love in the Afternoon / L’amour l’après-midi (1972) Éric Rohmer, Bernard Verley, Zouzou, Françoise Verley, Drama, Romance
Though happily married to his adoring wife Hélène, with whom he is expecting a second child Read More »
Mein Name ist Bach / My Name Is Bach (2003) Dominique de Rivaz, Vadim Glowna, Jürgen Vogel, Karoline Herfurth, Biography, Drama
Brilliant composer and organist Johann Sebastian Bach completes the long journey from his home in Leipzig to Potsdam. Read More »
Promise at Dawn (1970) Jules Dassin, Melina Mercouri, Assi Dayan, Didier Haudepin, Drama
Nina (Melina Mercouri) is a former silent-film star from Russia who abandons her career to care for her son. Read More »
La guerre des boutons / War of the Buttons (2011) Yann Samuell, Eric Elmosnino, Mathilde Seigner, Fred Testot, Adventure, Family
In the countryside of France, two groups of boys from the rural villages of Longeverne and Velran are in constant war against each other. Read More »
Taxi Blues (1990) Pavel Lungin, Pyotr Mamonov, Pyotr Zaychenko, Vladimir Kashpur, Comedy, Drama
Ivan is old Russia: thick, dour, hard-working, often brutish; he misses Communism. He drives a taxi and one night meets Alexi, a new Russian, a musician, an alcoholic, irresponsible. Read More »