Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. Read More »
Tag Archives: french
Forever (2006) Heddy Honigmann, Yoshino Kimura, Bertrand Beyern, Camille Solari
Père-Lachaise – one of the world’s most famous and beautiful cemeteries – is the final resting-place of a gifted group of artists from all eras and corners of the world. Read More »
All about them AKA À trois on y va (2015) Jérôme Bonnell, Anaïs Demoustier, Félix Moati, Sophie Verbeeck
Lille, France. The affairs between a young couple living a tense period of their relationship, and a long term friend of theirs who cannot decide which one she likes the most. Read More »
The Stepford Wives (1975) Bryan Forbes, Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson
The Stepford Wives is about a small suburb where the women happily go about their housework Read More »
The Intruder AKA L’intrus (2004) Claire Denis, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin, Yekaterina Golubeva
Louis Trebor, a man nearing 70, lives alone with dogs in the forest near the French-Swiss border. Read More »
The Xango from Baker Street AKA O Xangô de Baker Street (2001) Miguel Faria Jr., Joaquim de Almeida, Anthony O’Donnell, Maria de Medeiros
Rio de Janeiro, 1886. Actress Sarah Bernhardt performs at the city’s Municipal Theater Read More »
Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky (2009) Jan Kounen, Anna Mouglalis, Mads Mikkelsen, Elena Morozova
Paris 1913. Coco Chanel is infatuated with the rich and handsome Boy Capel, but she is also compelled by her work. Read More »
The Invader AKA L’envahisseur (2011) Nicolas Provost, Isaka Sawadogo, Stefania Rocca, Serge Riaboukine, Dieudonné Kabongo
The struggles of illegal African immigrant Amadou in search for a better life in Brussels. Read More »
Up and Down AKA Parpaillon (1993) Luc Moullet, Jean Abeillé, Clément Boutterin, Brigitte Canaan
A bicycle race is held every year in a pass of the Alps called Parpaillon. Read More »
Shipwrecked on Route D 17 AKA Les naufragés de la D17 (2002) Luc Moullet, Patrick Bouchitey, Iliana Lolitch, Sabine Haudepin
During the Gulf War, the paths of several groups of characters cross in France’s most desert-like region. Read More »
The Cow and I AKA La vache et le prisonnier (1959) Henri Verneuil, Fernandel, Pierre-Louis, Ellen Schwiers
In 1942, a French prisonner of war in Germany decide to escape to France using a cow hold by a lunge as a decoy. He cross all Germany in this way. Read More »
The Legacy AKA L’héritage (2006) Géla Babluani, Temur Babluani, Sylvie Testud, Stanislas Merhar, Olga Legrand
Three French hipsters and their translator travel through rural Georgia to claim a remote, ruined castle that one of them has inherited. Read More »
Sugar Cane Alley AKA Rue Cases Nègres (1983) Euzhan Palcy, Garry Cadenat, Darling Légitimus, Douta Seck
Martinique, in the early 1930s. Young José and his grandmother live in a small village. Read More »
Sweet Ecstasy AKA Douce Violence (1962) Max Pécas, Pierre Brice, Elke Sommer, Vittoria Prada
Olivier, a handsome but callow and moody young student, picks up an enthusiastic actress during a theatre rehearsal Read More »
Yoshiwara (1937) Max Ophüls, Pierre Richard-Willm, Sessue Hayakawa, Michiko Tanaka
Late nineteenth century. Young Kohana is sent to Yoshiwara, a suburb of Tokyo where exercise the profession of geisha. Read More »