From the 1940’s to today, Manuel Luciano has tried to discover the true identity of Christopher Columbus. Read More »
Tag Archives: France
The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived AKA Saat el Tahrir Dakkat, Barra ya Isti Mar (1974) Heiny Srour
This film is the one and only testimony shot in the depths of the former Read More »
Jenatsch (1987) Daniel Schmid, Michel Voïta, Christine Boisson, Vittorio Mezzogiorno
A journalist is assigned to interview an eccentric anthropologist who has exhumed Read More »
World Without Sun AKA Le monde sans soleil (1964) Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Pierre Bidault, Louis Bidegant, Christian Bonnici
Fascinating underwater documentary filmed with hand-held cameras by frogmen Read More »
Don’t Look Back AKA Ne te retourne pas (2009) Marina de Van, Sophie Marceau, Monica Bellucci, Andrea Di Stefano
Jeanne, a writer, married with two children – starts to see unsettling changes in her home. Read More »
The Murdered Young Girl AKA La jeune fille assassinée (1974) Roger Vadim, Sirpa Lane, Michel Duchaussoy, Mathieu Carrière
This movie is about a woman, Charlotte, who goes in search of the ultimate sexual experience. Read More »
Dear Father AKA Caro papà (1979) Dino Risi, Vittorio Gassman, Aurore Clément, Andrée Lachapelle
In Caro papá, Dino Risi is telling the narrative of this wholesome lifestyle Read More »
Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story (1986) Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Farrah Fawcett, Tom Conti, Geraldine Page
Farrah Fawcett plays real-life Beate Klarsfeld, a German Protestant housewife Read More »
Monsieur Fabre (1951) Henri Diamant-Berger, Pierre Fresnay, Elina Labourdette, André Randall
Pierre Fresnay plays the title role of a dedicated man Read More »
The Italian of the Roses AKA L’Italien des Roses (1972) Charles Matton, Richard Bohringer, Isabelle Mercanton, Andrée Fleur
A young man, called The Italian of the Roses, is on the roof edge Read More »
Cigalon (1935) Marcel Pagnol, Arnaudy, Henri Poupon, Marguerite Chabert
Cigalon (Alexandre Arnaudy) manages a restaurant in a small town in Provence. Read More »
Young Soul Rebels (1991) Isaac Julien, Valentine Nonyela, Mo Sesay, Dorian Healy
Youth culture meets identity politics in this part-thriller, part-gay love story set Read More »
I Am Dina (2002) Ole Bornedal, Tony Spataro, Maria Bonnevie, Gérard Depardieu, Christopher Eccleston
Dina grows up in a village at a fjord in 1860s north Norway. Read More »
The Pearls of the Crown AKA Les perles de la couronne (1937) Sacha Guitry, Jacqueline Delubac, Lyn Harding
Three narrators (French writer Jean Martin, an English royal equerry, and a papal chamberlain) Read More »
King of Thieves AKA König der Diebe (2004) Ivan Fíla, Lazar Ristovski, Iakov Kultiasov, Katharina Thalbach
Two amateur circus kids from a poor Ukrainian village, ten-year-old Barbu and his older sister Mimma Read More »