Antoine is an accountant, uptight and withdrawn, married to Edith, who picks out his clothes and shoes. Read More »
Tag Archives: french
The Last Bolshevik (1993) Chris Marker, Léonor Graser, Nikolai Izvolov, Kira Paramonova
This documentary tells the story of film director Aleksandr Medvedkin Read More »
L’enfant de Paris (1913) Léonce Perret, Louis Leubas, Maurice Lagrenée
A series of misfortunes befalls young Marie-Laure. Her army captain father goes missing in action Read More »
Made in Paris (2006) Pascal Bonitzer, Edouard Baer, Géraldine Pailhas, Marina de Van
Diane lives with publisher Hermann but everything is spoiled when Worms, Hermann’s loyal author and friend Read More »
The Viscount (1967) Maurice Cloche, Kerwin Mathews, Sylvia Sorrente, Jean Yanne
Clint de la Roche is an insurance agent of royal decent. Read More »
A Tale of Springtime (1990) Éric Rohmer, Anne Teyssèdre, Hugues Quester, Florence Darel
Simple conversations engender complicated human interactions. Read More »
The Battle of Austerlitz (1960) Abel Gance, Pierre Mondy, Martine Carol, Claudia Cardinale
Another of Napoleon’s adventures in this epic reconstruction of the battle of Austerlitz Read More »
Law of Survival (1967) José Giovanni, Michel Constantin, Alexandra Stewart, Roger Blin
In 1960, Stan, the protagonist, after having made a fortune in Asia, returns to Corsica, to visit a friend’s tomb. Read More »
Birds of Prey (1968) José Giovanni, Lino Ventura, Rosa Furman, Aurora Clavel
Vera Cruz, 1938. “Le Rital”, a tough French hit man, agrees to serve Mexican revolutionaries Read More »
Birgit Haas Must Be Killed (1981) Laurent Heynemann, Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Lisa Kreuzer
“Hangar” is a new agency whose purpose is to carry out missions even too sensitive for the police or intelligence services. Read More »
Forbidden Games (1952) René Clément, Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Amédée
A girl of perhaps five or six is orphaned in an air raid while fleeing a French city with her parents early in World War II. Read More »
Man Bites Dog (1992) Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde, Jacqueline Poelvoorde-Pappaert, Nelly Pappaert
A camera crew follows a serial killer/thief around as he exercises his craft. Read More »
Vengeance One by One (1975) Robert Enrico, Philippe Noiret, Romy Schneider, Jean Bouise
In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu in a surgeon in the local hospital. Read More »
Lady Jane (2008) Robert Guédiguian, Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan
Muriel, François and René, three childhood friends from a working class neighbourhood of Marseille Read More »
Olivia (1951) Jacqueline Audry, Edwige Feuillère, Simone Simon, Marie-Claire Olivia
Olivia, an English teenager, arrives at a finishing school in France. Read More »