This French film stars Claude Amazan as a child coal merchant eager to go to summer camp. Read More »
Tag Archives: France
High Heels AKA Tacones lejanos (1991) Pedro Almodóvar, Victoria Abril, Marisa Paredes, Miguel Bosé
A girl’s mother returns after 15 years to find her daughter has married one of her (the mother’s) old boyfriends. Read More »
High Tension AKA Haute tension (2003) Alexandre Aja, Cécile De France, Maïwenn, Philippe Nahon
Alexia travels with her friend Marie to spend a couple of days with her family in their farm in the country. Read More »
Or (My Treasure) (2004) Keren Yedaya, Dana Ivgy, Ronit Elkabetz, Meshar Cohen
Or shoulders a lot: she’s 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bottles for cash Read More »
Stolen Kisses AKA Baisers volés (1968) François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Delphine Seyrig
Antoine Doinel joined the army but has just been discharged. Read More »
Love on the Run AKA L’amour en fuite (1979) François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Marie-France Pisier
Antoine Doinel is now more than thirty. He divorces from Christine. Read More »
The Life of the Dead AKA La vie des morts (1991) Arnaud Desplechin, Thibault de Montalembert, Roch Leibovici, Marianne Denicourt
A large family, traumatized by tragic deaths, reunites to wait for news Read More »
The Devil in the Skin AKA Le diable dans la peau (2011) Gilles Martinerie, Quentin Grosset, Paul François, Francis Renaud
Xavier and his brother Jacques, live in the countryside in a country made ??of gorges, plateaus and vast expanses. Read More »
The Three-Way Wedding AKA Le mariage à trois (2010) Jacques Doillon, Pascal Greggory, Julie Depardieu, Louis Garrel
Auguste (Pascal Greggory) is a theater writer who has serious difficulties in finishing writing his last play. Read More »
La question (1977) Laurent Heynemann, Jacques Denis, Nicole Garcia, Jean-Pierre Sentier
In Algiers, during 1957, the army was sent to restore order. Henri Charlègue, the editor of a newspaper sympathetic to the FLN Read More »
Complexes AKA I complessi (1965) Luigi Filippo D’Amico, Dino Risi, Nino Manfredi, Ilaria Occhini, Riccardo Garrone
In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer Gabriella, lover of Alvaro, with the complexity of shyness. Read More »
Querelle (1982) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau
The French naval ship, Le Vengeur, based out of Marseille, has just docked in Brest for an extended stay. Read More »
The Assassin Next Door AKA Kirot (2009) Danny Lerner, Olga Kurylenko, Ninet Tayeb, Henry David
In an old apartment building on the wrong side of the tracks, two women, unknown to each other Read More »
The Whip and the Body AKA La frusta e il corpo (1963) Mario Bava, Daliah Lavi, Christopher Lee, Tony Kendall
After the announcement of the servant Losat, the nobleman Kurt Menliff returns Read More »
Volpone (1941) Maurice Tourneur, Jacques de Baroncelli, Harry Baur, Louis Jouvet, Charles Dullin
Volpone, an elderly Venetian, connives with his money-crazed servant to convince his greedy friends Read More »