Aaron (Zohar Shtrauss), a respected butcher and a family man in an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Read More »
Tag Archives: France
The Flesh of the Orchid / La chair de l’orchidée (1975) Patrice Chéreau, Charlotte Rampling, Bruno Cremer, Edwige Feuillère
A disturbed young woman is kept prisoner in a castle by her aunt for her money. Read More »
The Enemy (2001) Tom Kinninmont, Luke Perry, Olivia d’Abo, Roger Moore
A C.I.A. Agent and a geneticist battle to keep a deadly biological weapon Read More »
The Smugglers / Les Contrebandières (1968) Luc Moullet, Françoise Vatel, Monique Thiriet, Johnny Monteilhet
Two young women leave the claustrophobic existence of the big city behind and move to a small border town. Read More »
A Girl Cut in Two / La fille coupée en deux (2007) Claude Chabrol, Ludivine Sagnier, Benoît Magimel, François Berléand
Gabrielle is a young woman with a future: she’s the weather girl on a local TV station Read More »
In the Name of the Law / Au nom de la loi (1932) Maurice Tourneur, Marcelle Chantal, Régine Dancourt, Gabriel Gabrio
A policeman is killed when he tries to investigate a case involving cocaine traffic. Read More »
Now Showing (2008) Raya Martin, Ness Roque, Adriana Agcaoili, Via Antonio
Now Showing captures the joyful and carefree ways of a young Filipina in the time Read More »
How I Killed My Father / Comment j’ai tué mon père (2001) Anne Fontaine, Michel Bouquet, Charles Berling, Natacha Régnier
Jean-Luc is an established gerontologist who can do no wrong; he runs a private clinic Read More »
Henri 4 / Henry of Navarre (2010) Jo Baier, Julien Boisselier, Joachim Król, Andreas Schmidt
A wide-ranging, energetic period piece tracing the rise of the Protestant Henry of Navarre Read More »
A Woman Kills / La femme bourreau (1968) Jean-Denis Bonan, Claude Merlin, Solange Pradel, Myriam Mézières
Paris, in the 1960s. A series of crimes troubles the public tranquility. Read More »