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Tag Archives: France
Rock’n Roll (2017) Guillaume Canet, Marion Cotillard, Gilles Lellouche
Guillaume Canet is told by a young co-star that he’s no longer Rock’n’ Roll Read More »
Sword of Gideon (1986) Michael Anderson, Steven Bauer, Michael York, Robert Joy
Chronicles a Mossad team hand picked to hunt down the terrorists Read More »
Jaguar (1967) Jean Rouch, Damouré Zika, Lam Ibrahim Dia, Illo Gaoudel
The adventures of three young men who leave their homeland Savannah, Niger, and go looking for fortune in Ghana. Read More »
Accused, Stand Up! AKA Accusée… levez-vous! (1930) Maurice Tourneur, Gaby Morlay, Suzanne Delvé, Camille Bert
Paris, 30’s declared professional rivalry between two stars of the musical, Yvonne and Gaby leads to dire consequences. Read More »
Les baisers (1964) Claude Berri, Charles L. Bitsch, Jean-François Hauduroy, Marie-France Boyer, Catherine Sola, Charles Sébrien
A portmanteau film in which the producer, instead of as usual using already Read More »
Chasing Sleep (2000) Michael Walker, Jeff Daniels, Molly Price, Ben Shenkman
Via Tubitv on the Roku; Jeff Daniels (Traitor) plays a man left devastated by the sudden Read More »
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians AKA Signore & signori (1965) Pietro Germi, Virna Lisi, Gastone Moschin, Alberto Lionello
A citizen of the Veneto in her sixties. Three stories of “love in the country” Read More »
Bye bye, Barbara (1969) Michel Deville, Ewa Swann, Philippe Avron, Bruno Cremer
A journalist meets a pretty, young woman in Biarritz and they fall in love with each other. Read More »
Almost Peaceful AKA Un monde presque paisible (2002) Michel Deville, Simon Abkarian, Zabou Breitman, Vincent Elbaz
Jewish tailor Albert (Abkarian) and his wife Lea (Breitman) are reestablishing their business in 1946 Paris. Read More »
The Women on the 6th Floor AKA Les femmes du 6e étage (2010) Philippe Le Guay, Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kiberlain, Natalia Verbeke
Paris, in the early 1960s. Jean-Louis Joubert is a serious but uptight stockbroker Read More »
The Dominici Affair AKA L’affaire Dominici (1973) Claude Bernard-Aubert, Jeanne Allard, Max Amyl, Michel Bertay
This film explores the ins and outs of the Dominici Affair that made the headlines back in 1952. Read More »
Beloved Clara AKA Geliebte Clara (2008) Helma Sanders-Brahms, Martina Gedeck, Pascal Greggory, Malik Zidi
A look at the lives of 19th-century composers Clara and Robert Schumann. Read More »
The Good Heart (2009) Dagur Kári, Paul Dano, Brian Cox, Bill Buell
After a suicide attempt, Lucas, a young homeless man in New York City, is taken in by Jacques Read More »
Man on the Train AKA L’Homme du Train (2002) Patrice Leconte, Jean Rochefort, Johnny Hallyday, Jean-François Stévenin
One evening, a stranger, Milan, arrives in a small French town and enters a pharmacy to buy some aspirin. Read More »