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Monthly Archives: August 2023
Act of Sorrow / Atto di dolore (1990) Pasquale Squitieri, Claudia Cardinale, Bruno Cremer, Karl Zinny

In Milan, Elena is a widow and has to raise alone her two children, Martina and Sandro. Read More »
Love Like Poison / Un Poison Violent (2010) Katell Quillévéré, Clara Augarde, Lio, Michel Galabru

Anna a young teenager comes home from her Catholic boarding school for the holidays Read More »
I’ve Been Waiting So Long / Une vie à t’attendre (2004) Thierry Klifa, Nathalie Baye, Patrick Bruel, Géraldine Pailhas

A married Frenchwoman living in Brazil returns to her native country to visit her ailing elderly mother. Read More »
Mother and Son / Un petit frère (2022) Léonor Serraille, Annabelle Lengronne, Stéphane Bak, Kenzo Sambin

In the late 1980s, Rose moves from the Ivory Coast to Paris with her two young sons. Read More »
Keep Your Right Up / Soigne ta droite (1987) Jean-Luc Godard, Jane Birkin, Dominique Lavanant, Pauline Lafont

A film with idiotic prince and Rita Mitsouko who records a new album. Read More »
Summerspell (1983) Lina Shanklin, Louise Davis, Edna Wisdom, Vernon Lafon

Family celebrations and tensions, Independence Day, Texas 1948. Read More »
Day Is Done (2006) Mike Kelley, Melissa Sills, Max Shippee, Oscar Avalos

Day Is Done is a carnivalesque opus, a genre-smashing epic in which vampires Read More »
Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996) Elia Suleiman, Nazira Suleiman, Fuad Suleiman

A Palestinian expatriate filmmaker (Elia Suleiman) documents the loss of national identity in Israel’s Arab population. Read More »
Bank Robber (1993) Nick Mead, Patrick Dempsey, Lisa Bonet, Judge Reinhold

Billy, a hopeless romantic, robs banks wearing business suits, in a desperate Read More »