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Tag Archives: 1990s
Salt on Our Skin (1992) Andrew Birkin, Greta Scacchi, Vincent D’Onofrio, Anaïs Jeanneret
A Scottish woman who attends school in Paris comes home for the summer and helps take in the straw Read More »
Parklands (1996) Kathryn Millard, Cate Blanchett
Rosie returns to her home city on the death of her father, a former policeman. Read More »
Human Resources AKA Ressources humaines (1999) Laurent Cantet, Jalil Lespert, Jean-Claude Vallod, Chantal Barré
The 35-hour work week has all of France in its thrall. This film turns it into a feature about economic and familial politics. Read More »
Mad at the Moon (1992) Martin Donovan, Lori Ashton, Hart Bochner, Pat Atkins
A young woman on the frontier marries a meek farmer who has an annoying habit of going through a rather drastic change every full moon. Read More »
Short Sharp Shock AKA Kurz und schmerzlos (1998) Fatih Akin, Mehmet Kurtulus, Aleksandar Jovanovic, Adam Bousdoukos
Hamburg, Germany. The small crime scene. Three friends: Gabriel from Turkey and just out of prison Read More »
The Pear Tree AKA Derakhte Golabi (1998) Dariush Mehrjui, Homayoun Ershadi, Golshifteh Farahani, Mohammad Reza Shaban-Noori
A man contemplates life and compares it to a pear tree in his yard which stops producing fruit. Read More »
Catherine the Great (1996) Marvin J. Chomsky, John Goldsmith, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Paul McGann, Ian Richardson
In this romanticized biography, a small German principality’s inexperienced princess, Catherine Read More »
Madame Bovary (1991) Claude Chabrol
In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire (Emma Rouault) marries a dull country doctor (Charles Bovary). Read More »
Last Light (1993) Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Clancy Brown
Awaiting execution, Denver Bayliss gains an unlikely friend and confidant in Fred Whitmore Read More »