The President of France’s daughter falls for her father’s attaché and asks to be his mistress. Read More »
Tag Archives: France
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom / Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1975) Pier Paolo Pasolini, Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto Paolo Quintavalle
Four fascist libertines round up 9 teenages boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental and sexual torture. Read More »
Springtime in a Small Town / Xiao cheng zhi chun (2002) Zhuangzhuang Tian, Jingfan Hu, Jun Wu, Bai Qing Xin
Liyan and Yuwen live in post-war torpor, childless but with Liyan’s school-aged sister. Read More »
I moschettieri del mare (1962) Massimo Patrizi, Steno, Pier Angeli, Channing Pollock, Aldo Ray
Three pirates escaped a shipwreck of a galleon and take possession along with some Read More »
Field Diary (1982) Amos Gitai
In 1982, Amos Gitai and a film crew travel around the occupied territories of the Gaza Strip Read More »
Eternity Has no Door of Escape (2018) Arthur Borgnis, Laurent Danchin, Jean Dubuffet, Savine Faupin
This documentary focuses on the work of outsider artists like Jean Dubuffet Read More »
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (2011)
What is experimental film, and why is it called that? Artists and poet working in celluloid Read More »
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot / L’histoire très bonne et très joyeuse de Colinot Trousse-Chemise (1973) Nina Companeez, Francis Huster, Nathalie Delon, Brigitte Bardot
Colinot is a young, happy man, until the day three highway robbers abduct his fiancee. Read More »
The Palermo Connection / Dimenticare Palermo (1990) Francesco Rosi, Jim Belushi, Mimi Rogers, Joss Ackland
Carmine Bonavia wins election as the mayor of New York on a promise to legalize drugs. Read More »
That Is the Dawn / Cela s’appelle l’aurore (1956) Luis Buñuel, Georges Marchal, Lucia Bosé, Julien Bertheau
The wife of a physician who diligently cares for the poor, grows weary of their dull South France factory town Read More »