Victoria is a thirty-something divorced lawyer who’s struggling to raise her two daughters. She is canny and cynical but on the verge of an emotional breakdown. Read More »
Tag Archives: France
Hors la vie / Out of Life (1991) Maroun Bagdadi, Hippolyte Girardot, Rafik Ali Ahmad, Hussein Sbeity, Drama
Patrick Perrault, a photo-journalist covering the war in Beirut in the late 1980s, is himself caught up in the hostilities when one day he is picked up and bundled into a car at gun-point. Read More »
Compartiment tueurs / The Sleeping Car Murders (1965) Costa-Gavras, Catherine Allégret, Jacques Perrin, Simone Signoret, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Six people travel in a railroad sleeping car from Marseilles to Paris. Upon their arrival, a woman is found dead in one of the berths. Read More »
Donne-moi la main / Give Me Your Hand (2008) Pascal-Alex Vincent, Alexandre Carril, Victor Carril, Anaïs Demoustier, Drama, Romance
Twin 18-year-olds hitchhike to their mother’s funeral in Spain. The journey changes their lives forever. Read More »
Three Times / Zui hao de shi guang (2005) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Qi Shu, Chen Chang, Fang Mei, Drama, Romance
There are three stories of women and men: in “A Time for Love” set in 1966, a soldier searches for a young woman he met one afternoon playing pool Read More »
Les petites guerres / Little Wars (1982) Maroun Bagdadi, Soraya Khoury, Nabil Ismaïl, Roger Hawa, Drama, War
Lebanon, 1975. How Tahal, an affluent young man becomes a warlord ; how Soraya, the girl he leaves behind, tries to help him in abducting a businessman Read More »
Les guerriers de la beauté (2003) Pierre Coulibeuf, Els Deceukelier, William Forsythe, Emio Greco, Fantasy, Arthouse, Performance
The filmic composition creates a fictive space that conveys the multiple perspectives generated by Fabre’s imaginings. Read More »
Asfalto (2000) Daniel Calparsoro, Najwa Nimri, Juan Diego Botto, Gustavo Salmerón, Drama
Three young and desperate inhabitants of Madrid attempt to rise above their circumstances by any means available to them in that sun-drenched city. Read More »
Innocent Lies (1995) Patrick Dewolf, Adrian Dunbar, Florence Hoath, Sophie Aubry, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
In September 1938 a British detective comes to a small French coastal town in order to investigate the death of a colleague. Read More »
Afraid of the Dark (1991) Mark Peploe, James Fox, Fanny Ardant, Paul McGann, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Lucas is a little boy who’s going blind. The only thing that could save his eyesight is a risky eye operation that could either fix his eyes or blind him for good. Read More »
Hercules vs the Molloch (1963) Giorgio Ferroni, Gordon Scott, Alessandra Panaro, Rosalba Neri, Adventure, Fantasy
A deposed prince arrives in a city ruled over by a cult that worships an evil monster as a god. He becomes a gladiator Read More »
Virgin Territory (2007) David Leland, Hayden Christensen, Mischa Barton, Ryan Cartwright, Adventure, Comedy, History
Young Florentines take refuge from the black plague and engage in bawdy adventures and lusty exchanges. Read More »
Elle s’appelait Sarah / Sarah’s Key (2010) Gilles Paquet-Brenner, Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Drama, War
One of the darkest moments in French history occurred in 1942 Paris when French officials rounded up over 10,000 Jews and placed them in local camps. Read More »
Huis-clos / No Exit (1954) Jacqueline Audry, Arletty, Frank Villard, Gaby Sylvia, Drama
Jacqueline Audry usually approached her text with great reverence, but here she was revisionist to the point of destruction. Read More »
The Infamous House of Madame X / Le bordel, 1ère époque; 1900 (1974) José Bénazéraf, Malvina Penne, Marie Saint Clair, Jacques Point, Drama, Comedy, Erotic
Various stories intertwine within the walls of a popular Parisian brothel on the eve of the First World War. Read More »