Mario di Donati, a deserter from the Italian army, lives in Paris under Read More »
Tag Archives: Emmanuelle Riva
Kapò (1960) Gillo Pontecorvo, Susan Strasberg, Laurent Terzieff, Emmanuelle Riva
Kapo is a black and white film that tells the story of a Jewish teenager Read More »
The Eyes, the Mouth AKA Gli occhi, la bocca (1982) Marco Bellocchio, Lou Castel, Ángela Molina, Emmanuelle Riva
Burned-out, over-the-hill actor Giovanni returns to Bologna for the funeral of his twin, Pippo Read More »
I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse AKA J’irai comme un cheval fou (1973) Fernando Arrabal, Emmanuelle Riva, George Shannon, Hachemi Marzouk
When his mother dies, the police want to talk to Aden Rey, but Aden, a guilt-ridden epileptic, has left for the desert. Read More »
Thérèse Desqueyroux (1962) Georges Franju, Emmanuelle Riva, Philippe Noiret, Edith Scob, Drama
After Thérèse is acquitted of trying to poison her husband, Bernard Desqueyroux, she recalls the events that lead to her being charged. Read More »
Hiroshima mon amour (1959) Alain Resnais, Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Drama, Romance
A French woman and a Japanese man have an affair while she is in Japan making a film about peace and the impact of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, The man, an architect, lost his family in the bombing. Read More »
Thomas l’imposteur / Thomas the Impostor (1965) Georges Franju
In the First World War, when Paris is expected to fall to the Germans, the attractive widow, Princesse de Bormes, organises a convoy of cars to evacuate the wounded from the front, and bring them back to her villa in Paris to recuperate. The authorities will not give them passes until an innocent 16-year-old boy, Guillaume Thomas de Fontenoy, joins them and is mistaken as the nephew of the popular General de Fontenoy. The Princess is enraptured by Thomas and her daughter, Henriette, falls in love with him. However Thomas feels impelled to see more of the action of the war.
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