A documentary about the French writer Jean Genet and his relations with the Palestinian revolution. Read More »
Tag Archives: France
The Mouth Agape AKA La gueule ouverte (1974) Maurice Pialat, Nathalie Baye, Hubert Deschamps, Philippe Léotard
Monique is dying. Around her gather her unfaithful husband, her son, who is like his father Read More »
The Unfaithfuls AKA Le infedeli (1953) Mario Monicelli, Steno, Gina Lollobrigida, May Britt, Pierre Cressoy
An industrialist has his wife tailed because he secretly hopes she is betraying him so that he can ask for a divorce Read More »
The Diary 2 (1999) Nicolas Weber, Lila Baumann, Jason Davies, Kirsty Smith
A sequel movie to The Diary (1999). The movie succeed to replicate the 30’s, between the two world war, between Paris and London. Read More »
Still the Water AKA Futatsume no mado (2014) Naomi Kawase, Nijirô Murakami, Jun Yoshinaga, Miyuki Matsuda
On the subtropical Japanese island of Amami, traditions about nature remain eternal. Read More »
Chaos AKA Heya fawda (2007) Youssef Chahine, Khaled Youssef, Khaled Saleh, Menna Shalabi, Youssef El Sherif
Choubra, cosmopolitan neighborhood of Cairo. Hatem, maggoty police officer Read More »
Mayerling (1968) Terence Young, Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason
It’s the late nineteenth century Austria. The Emperor Franz-Joseph and his son, the Crown Prince Read More »
Europa Europa (1990) Agnieszka Holland, Solomon Perel, Marco Hofschneider, René Hofschneider
A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan Read More »
Pandora’s Box AKA Pandora’nin kutusu (2008) Yesim Ustaoglu, Tsilla Chelton, Derya Alabora, Onur Ünsal
When an aging matriarch starts showing signs of dementia, her dysfunctional family in Istanbul Read More »
La chinoise (1967) Jean-Luc Godard, Anne Wiazemsky, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto
A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position Read More »
Justin of Marseille (1935) Maurice Tourneur, Antonin Berval, Pierre Larquey, Alexandre Rignault
At the head of a gang of drug traffickers, Justin, has in principle left to tread. Read More »
Blue Gate Crossing AKA Lan se da men (2002) Chih-yen Yee, Gwei Lun-Mei, Bo-lin Chen, Yolin Liang
An is-she-or-isn’t-she gay comedy focused on a Taiwanese teen Read More »
Searching for Ingmar Bergman AKA Auf der Suche nach Ingmar Bergman (2018) Margarethe von Trotta, Bettina Böhler, Ingmar Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Ruben Östlund
Internationally renowned director Margarethe von Trotta takes a closer look at Bergman’s life Read More »
Miracle of the Wolves AKA Le miracle des loups (1924) Raymond Bernard, Vanni Marcoux, Charles Dullin, Yvonne Sergyl
King Louis XI tries to unify France by all means fair or foul Read More »
Pillaged AKA Mise à sac (1967) Alain Cavalier, Michel Constantin, Daniel Ivernel, Franco Interlenghi
Edgar, the former accountant of the Martens factory, organizes a daring heist in Servage, a small town in the French Alps. Read More »