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Tag Archives: France
The Novices AKA Les novices (1970) Guy Casaril, Claude Chabrol, Brigitte Bardot, Annie Girardot, Jean Carmet
Agnes is a nun who goes with her order to the beach for a swim in the ocean. Read More »
A Parisian Woman AKA Une parisienne (1957) Michel Boisrond, Charles Boyer, Henri Vidal, Brigitte Bardot
The President of France’s daughter falls for her father’s attaché and asks to be his mistress. Read More »
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom AKA Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1975) Pier Paolo Pasolini, Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto Paolo Quintavalle
Four fascist libertines round up 9 teenages boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental and sexual torture. Read More »
Springtime in a Small Town AKA Xiao cheng zhi chun (2002) Zhuangzhuang Tian, Jingfan Hu, Jun Wu, Bai Qing Xin
Liyan and Yuwen live in post-war torpor, childless but with Liyan’s school-aged sister. Read More »
I moschettieri del mare (1962) Massimo Patrizi, Steno, Pier Angeli, Channing Pollock, Aldo Ray
Three pirates escaped a shipwreck of a galleon and take possession along with some Read More »
Field Diary AKA Yoman Sadeh (1982) Amos Gitai
In 1982, Amos Gitai and a film crew travel around the occupied territories of the Gaza Strip Read More »
Eternity Has no Door of Escape (2018) Arthur Borgnis, Laurent Danchin, Jean Dubuffet, Savine Faupin
This documentary focuses on the work of outsider artists like Jean Dubuffet Read More »
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (2011) Pip Chodorov, Ken Jacobs, Hans Richter
What is experimental film, and why is it called that? Artists and poet working in celluloid Read More »
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot AKA L’histoire très bonne et très joyeuse de Colinot Trousse-Chemise (1973) Nina Companeez, Francis Huster, Nathalie Delon, Brigitte Bardot
Colinot is a young, happy man, until the day three highway robbers abduct his fiancee. Read More »
The Palermo Connection AKA Dimenticare Palermo (1990) Francesco Rosi, Jim Belushi, Mimi Rogers, Joss Ackland
Carmine Bonavia wins election as the mayor of New York on a promise to legalize drugs. Read More »
That Is the Dawn AKA Cela s’appelle l’aurore (1956) Luis Buñuel, Georges Marchal, Lucia Bosé, Julien Bertheau
The wife of a physician who diligently cares for the poor, grows weary of their dull South France factory town Read More »
Real Love AKA C’est ça l’amour (2018) Claire Burger, Bouli Lanners, Justine Lacroix, Sarah Henochsberg
Forbach, East of France, today. Mario, a man without much ambition, except for love Read More »
Party Girl (2014) Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis, Angélique Litzenburger, Joseph Bour, Mario Theis
Angélique is sixty. But she is not old. The best proof is that she is still working Read More »
Le maître d’école (1981) Claude Berri, Coluche, Josiane Balasko, Jacques Debary
After having lost his job for having saved a child accused of shop lifting Read More »