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Author Archives: rarefilm
Little Cheung (1999) Fruit Chan, Yuet-Ming Yiu, Wai-Fan Mak, Yuet-Man Mak

In 1997, Little Cheung is a street-wise nine-year-old boy living in a bustling neighbourhood of Hong Kong Read More »
Time Lock (1957) Gerald Thomas, Robert Beatty, Lee Patterson, Betty McDowall

A boy is accidentally locked in a bank vault. With less than 10 hours of oxygen left in the vault, it becomes a race to save the boy. Read More »
Fear (1954) Roberto Rossellini, Ingrid Bergman, Mathias Wieman, Renate Mannhardt

Irene Wagner, the wife of prominent scientist Albert Wagner, finds herself blackmailed about her affair by her lover’s jealous ex-girlfriend. Read More »
Le printemps / Spring (1972) Marcel Hanoun, Michael Lonsdale, Raymonde Godeau, Véronique Andriès

One could only enumerate the elements to let the film tell itself. Read More »
Série noire (1979) Alain Corneau, Patrick Dewaere, Myriam Boyer, Marie Trintignant, Bernard Blier

Franck Poupart is a slightly neurotic door-to-door salesman in a sinister part of Paris’ suburbs. Read More »
The Return of the Native (1994) Jack Gold, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Clive Owen, Ray Stevenson

Eustacia Vye, an exquisite beauty despairing at her boring life on an English moor Read More »
Mistress AKA Maîtresse (1976) Barbet Schroeder, Gérard Depardieu, Bulle Ogier, André Rouyer

After breaking into a house he believes is empty, thief Olivier is caught by the owner Read More »
Stín kapradiny / The Shadow of the Ferns (1984) Frantisek Vlácil, Marek Probosz, Zbigniew Suszynski, Miroslav Machácek

Based on the only extensive prose work by the surrealist painter Josef Capek, Shades of Fern most Read More »
Le Baron Fantôme / The Phantom Baron (1943) Serge de Poligny, André Lefaur, Odette Joyeux, Jany Holt

Elfy, Countess of Saint-Hélié’s daughter, was brought up with her foster sister Anne Read More »