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Tag Archives: France
Where are you going, Aida? AKA Quo vadis, Aida? (2020) Jasmila Zbanic, Jasna Djuricic, Izudin Bajrovic, Boris Ler
Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. Read More »
Stealing Beauty (1996) Bernardo Bertolucci, Jeremy Irons, Liv Tyler, Carlo Cecchi
For 20 years many visitors have come to the villa on an Italian hilltop owned by an English artist. Read More »
The 25th Hour AKA La vingt-cinquième heure (1967) Henri Verneuil, Anthony Quinn, Virna Lisi, Grégoire Aslan
During World War II, Johann Moritz (Anthony Quinn), a Romanian gentile peasant Read More »
A Virgin for St. Tropez AKA Une vierge pour Saint-Tropez (1975) Georges Friedland, Marianne Rémont, Jean-Pierre Delamour, Paul Muller
Maria (Marianne Rémont), a beautiful young woman, runs away from home with her older lover Read More »
Voyage surprise (1947) Pierre Prévert, Thérèse Aspar, Maurice Baquet, René Bourbon
A guideless old tour proprietor trumps his new-fangled rival by offering a genuine mystery trip. Read More »
Change Nothing AKA Ne change rien (2009) Pedro Costa, Jeanne Balibar, Rodolphe Burger, Hervé Loos
In Ne change rien, we see the French actress/singer Jeanne Balibar rehearsing Read More »
Alexandra AKA Aleksandra (2007) Aleksandr Sokurov, Galina Vishnevskaya, Vasily Shevtsov, Raisa Gichaeva
An elderly woman takes a train trip to visit her grandson at his army camp inside Chechnya. Read More »
Picpus (1943) Richard Pottier, Albert Préjean, Juliette Faber, Jean Tissier
Whilst moving into her new apartment in the rue Picpus, Madame Dumont discovers Read More »
The Apartment (1996) Gilles Mimouni, Romane Bohringer, Vincent Cassel, Jean-Philippe Écoffey
Max is on his way to Tokyo. He lives in Paris and likes to flirt but has decided to get married. Read More »
Sleeping Beauty AKA Belle Dormant (2016) Adolfo Arrieta, Niels Schneider, Agathe Bonitzer, Mathieu Amalric
In the Kingdom of Letonia, Prince Egon has only one thing in mind: finding Sleeping Beauty Read More »
America As Seen by a Frenchman AKA L’Amérique insolite (1960) François Reichenbach, Jean Cocteau, Paul Klinger, June Richmond
This documentary is a general, unquestioning travelog of the United States through the eyes of French director and co-cameraman Francois Reichenbach Read More »
Twice Upon a Time AKA Deux fois (1968) Jackie Raynal, Francisco Viader, Oscar
Deux fois is a 1968 experimental film by Jackie Raynal. Raynal stars in the film, her first as a director Read More »
Sex Is Comedy (2002) Catherine Breillat, Anne Parillaud, Grégoire Colin, Roxane Mesquida
Jeanne is a director struggling with a difficult sex scene between two actors who can’t stand each other. Read More »
Charlie Bravo (1980) Claude Bernard-Aubert, Bruno Pradal, Jean-François Poron, Karina Verlier
After a nurse is captured in Vietnam and held prisoner in a small jungle village, a group of soldiers is tasked with rescuing her. Read More »