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Life’s Little Treasures AKA Aux petits bonheurs (1994) Michel Deville, Anémone, Xavier Beauvois, André Dussollier
A house is opened in spring where some men and women in search of love are living. Life has different means for them. Read More »
No Fear, No Die AKA S’en fout la mort (1990) Claire Denis, Isaach De Bankolé, Alex Descas, Solveig Dommartin
Natives of Benin and the West Indies, Dah and Jocelyn form a fine team. Read More »
Récréations (1998) Claire Simon
There is a kind of country, very small, so small that it looks a bit like a theater scene. Read More »
The Secret Son AKA L’enfant secret (1982) Philippe Garrel, Anne Wiazemsky, Henri de Maublanc, Xuan Lindenmeyer
One of the great masters of post nouvelle vague generation, Philippe Garrel Read More »
Kubrick by Kubrick (2020) Gregory Monro, Stanley Kubrick, Michel Ciment, Malcolm McDowell
A rare and transcendent journey into the life and films of the legendary Stanley Kubrick Read More »
Emergency Kisses AKA Les baisers de secours (1989) Philippe Garrel, Brigitte Sy, Louis Garrel
The familiar conflicts of a film director planning to make a movie about his life Read More »
Frontier of the Dawn AKA La frontière de l’aube (2008) Philippe Garrel, Louis Garrel, Laura Smet, Clémentine Poidatz
A celebrity is caught by her husband with a young lover. She ends the relationship, but slowly goes insane. Read More »
The Banned Woman AKA La femme défendue (1997) Philippe Harel, Isabelle Carré, Nathalie Conio
39-year-old François meets 22-year-old Muriel, who is a virgin. Read More »
Farrebique ou Les quatre saisons (1946) Georges Rouquier
Farrebique, the first feature-length effort of French documentary filmmaker Read More »
Tomorrow We Move AKA Demain on déménage (2004) Chantal Akerman, Sylvie Testud, Aurore Clément, Jean-Pierre Marielle
The late Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman brings us an intellectual comedy about a mother Read More »
Erotic Witchcraft AKA La goulve (1972) Mario Mercier, Bepi Fontana, Hervé Hendrickx, César Torres, Anne Varèze
Axel, the magician, raises a boy into adulthood. When Axel dies, it’s the young man Read More »
TGV (1998) Moussa Touré, Makena Diop, Al Hamdou Traore, Bernard Giraudeau
The TGV? No, it is not the famous French high-speed train, but instead the rickety and colourful bus operated Read More »
The Beaches of Agnès AKA Les plages d’Agnès (2008) Agnès Varda, André Lubrano, Blaise Fournier
At nearly 80, Agnès Varda explores her memory – growing up in Belgium, living in Sète, Paris, and Noirmoutier Read More »
The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun AKA La petite vendeuse de soleil (1999) Djibril Diop Mambéty, Moussa Baldé, Lissa Balera, Aminata Fall
La petite vendeuse de soleil follows the life of a young girl who moves from her village to Dakar Read More »