Tag Archives: France
The Secret Spring / Koenigsmark (1923) Léonce Perret, Karl Heyl, Huguette Duflos, Henry Houry

Grand Duchess Aurora if forced into an unhappy marriage with Grand Duke Rudolph. Read More »
July 14 / Quatorze Juillet (1933) René Clair, Annabella, George Rigaud, Raymond Cordy

Jean is a young cab driver. Anna, a flower-girl neighbour, is in love with him. Read More »
Angele (1934) Marcel Pagnol, Orane Demazis, Fernandel, Henri Poupon

Angèle, the daughter of Clarius, a farmer in the mountain of Provence, lives with her parents and their valet Saturnin. Read More »
Treasure Island (1986) Raúl Ruiz, Vic Tayback, Martin Landau, Anna Karina

Raúl Ruiz’s fabulist modern-day riff on Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel. Read More »
The Ape Woman (1964) La donna scimmia

A modest Neapolitan man meets a young woman with excessive hairiness. Read More »
Brother and Sister / Frère et soeur (2022) Arnaud Desplechin, Marion Cotillard, Melvil Poupaud, Golshifteh Farahani

The story revolves around a brother and sister who are nearing their fifties – Alice is an actress Read More »
New Year’s Eve at Bob’s / Réveillon chez Bob (1984) Denys Granier-Deferre, Jean Rochefort, Guy Bedos, Agnès Soral

On New Year’s Eve, among the tower blocks of a huge housing estate in Paris Read More »
The Story of My Wife / A feleségem története (2021) Ildikó Enyedi, Léa Seydoux, Gijs Naber, Louis Garrel

Jacob Störr, a sea captain, makes a bet in a café with a friend, to marry Read More »
Rene the Cane (1977) Francis Girod

Rene and Marchand are best friends. What makes their friendship special is that Rene Read More »
