The history of the first victim of modern artillery and its moving agony, amidst conspiracies and betrayals of the powerful. Read More »
Tag Archives: France
The Wing and the Thigh (1976) L’aile ou la cuisse
Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and the publisher of a famous restaurant guide Read More »
Miss Bonaparte (1942) Maurice Tourneur
Cora Pearl, a demi-mondaine under the Second Empire, falls in love with a legitimist while she is the mistress of Jérôme Bonaparte, the cousin of Napoleon III. Read More »
The World Will Shake (1939) Le Monde tremblera
In this sci-fi film, a scientist invents a prescient machine that can tell people when they will die. Read More »
A Woman Escapes (2022)
A woman moves to Paris to tend to the home of a recently deceased friend and begins a video correspondence Read More »
Days of Love (1954) Giorni d’amore
Two young peasants, Angela and Pasquale, promised for several years, are postponing marriage for financial reasons. Read More »
East – West (1999) Est – Ouest – Régis Wargnier
June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. Read More »
Sortez des rangs (1996) Fall Out
11-year-old Michel, whose father was shot in the wake of the 1917 army mutiny Read More »
Ancestral Visions of the Future (2025)
In a dreamlike journey through memory and myth, a young boy’s experiences in Lesotho blend with cinema’s magic Read More »
Sweet Hunters (1969) Ternos Caçadores
An ornithologist goes on a field trip to a deserted island near the mainland with his wife and small son Read More »