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Daguerrotype AKA Le secret de la chambre noire (2016) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Tahar Rahim, Constance Rousseau, Olivier Gourmet
When an assistant to a daguerreotypy photographer falls in love Read More »
The Blue Room AKA La chambre bleue (2014) Mathieu Amalric, Léa Drucker, Stéphanie Cléau
A man and a woman, secretly in love, alone in a room. They desire each other, want each other, and even bite each other. Read More »
In Praise of Love AKA Éloge de l’amour (2001) Jean-Luc Godard, Bruno Putzulu, Cécile Camp, Jean Davy
In part one there is talk of a project on the subject of love, with the example of three couples Read More »
Time of the Hunt AKA Le temps d’une chasse (1972) Francis Mankiewicz, Guy L’Ecuyer, Marcel Sabourin, Pierre Dufresne
Willy, Richard, and Lionel, three blue-collar friends from Montreal East, leave the city and travel to the countryside for a weekend of hunting. Read More »
Bluebeard AKA Landru (1963) Claude Chabrol, Michèle Morgan, Danielle Darrieux, Hildegard Knef
France, WWI. Landru, the father of four children, contacts Parisian women through newspaper ads, seduces and eventually kills them. Read More »
Dreams of Dust AKA Rêves de poussière (2006) Laurent Salgues, Makena Diop, Adama Ouédraogo, Rasmané Ouédraogo
A Nigerian peasant comes looking for work in Essakane, a dusty gold mine in Northeast Burkina Faso, where he hopes to forget the past that haunts him. Read More »
The Dinner Game AKA Le dîner de cons (1998) Francis Veber, Thierry Lhermitte, Jacques Villeret, Francis Huster, Daniel Prévost
To amuse themselves at a weekly dinner, a few well-heeled folk each bring a dimwit along who is to talk about his pastime. Read More »
El cantor (2005) Joseph Morder, Lou Castel, Luis Rego, Françoise Michaud
William’s great surprise, his cousin Clovis, whom he did not see again since around thirty years, arrives from New York to visit him. Read More »
A Girl Is a Gun AKA Une aventure de Billy le Kid (1971) Luc Moullet, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Rachel Kesterber, Jean Valmont
Despite most Cahiers du cinéma critics admired many western authors, when they themselves became filmmakers few dared to overtly revisit that genre. Read More »
To Die of Love AKA Mourir d’aimer… (1971) André Cayatte, Annie Girardot, Bruno Pradal, Claude Cerval
A love story between a teacher, Daniele, 32 years and one of her students Gerard Read More »
Moolaadé (2004) Ousmane Sembene, Fatoumata Coulibaly, Maimouna Hélène Diarra, Salimata Traoré
In an African village this is the day when six 4-9-year-old girls are to be ‘cut’ (the act of female genital mutilation) Read More »
Sign of the Lion AKA Le signe du lion (1962) Éric Rohmer, Jess Hahn, Michèle Girardon, Van Doude
Pierre Wesselrin is a 40-year-old American who lives in Paris by sponging off his working friends and various wealthy acquaintances. Read More »
I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse AKA J’irai comme un cheval fou (1973) Fernando Arrabal, Emmanuelle Riva, George Shannon, Hachemi Marzouk
When his mother dies, the police want to talk to Aden Rey, but Aden, a guilt-ridden epileptic, has left for the desert. Read More »
Trap for the Assassin AKA Roger la Honte (1966) Riccardo Freda, Georges Géret, Irene Papas, Jean-Pierre Marielle
In the period following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, Roger Laroque became the owner of a small factory. Read More »