The Thirty Years’ War is seen from the point of view in this satirical slapstick Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Hay Country Swingers / Beichte einer Liebestollen (1971) Alois Brummer, Karin Götz, Johannes Buzalski, Sandra Reni
Kicked out of her home after her new stepfather tries to yank her into bed Read More »
Between Love and Duty / Le bois des amants (1960) Claude Autant-Lara, Laurent Terzieff, Erika Remberg, Horst Frank
WW2, in occupied Brittany: a military German woman comes to visit her husband, a Kommandatur officer. Read More »
Unbranded (2015) Phillip Baribeau, Ben Masters, Jonny Fitzsimons, Thomas Glover
Sixteen mustangs, four men, one dream: to ride border to border, Mexico to Canada Read More »
Remainder (2015) Omer Fast, Tom Sturridge, Cush Jumbo, Ed Speleers
Hit by a falling object in a freak accident, an unnamed man (Tom Sturridge) awakens Read More »
Courier of Lyons / L’affaire du courrier de Lyon (1937) Claude Autant-Lara, Maurice Lehmann, Pierre Blanchar, Dita Parlo, Jacques Copeau
Historical drama based on a true case of miscarriage of justice, the “Joseph Lesurques case” of 1796. Read More »
The Heart’s Cry / Le cri du coeur (1994) Idrissa Ouedraogo, Richard Bohringer, Saïd Diarra, Félicité Wouassi
Moctar lives in Mali with his mother Saffi and his ailing grandfather. Read More »
Killing Mad Dogs / Sagkoshi (2001) Bahram Beizai, Mozhdeh Shamsai, Majid Mozaffari, Reza Kianian
Golrokh an Iranian lady who is a talented author struggles to settle her presumably disloyal Read More »
Today / Aujourd’hui (2012) Alain Gomis, Saul Williams, Djolof Mbengue, Anisia Uzeyman
Satché is about to die. He decides to make his last day on this world the day of his life. Read More »
The Very Same Munchhausen / Tot samyy Myunkhgauzen (1979) Mark Zakharov, Oleg Yankovskiy, Inna Churikova, Elena Koreneva
A philosophical and poetic portrait of the famous (or maybe infamous?) Baron Munchhausen. Read More »