Francesca, a 17-year old school girl, has a vivid dream of making love to Enrico Read More »
Tag Archives: France
Samba Traoré (1992) Idrissa Ouedraogo, Bakary Sangaré, Mariam Kaba, Abdoulaye Komboudri
Samba Traore returns to his village flush with funds. Read More »
The Gate of Sun / Bab el shams (2004) Yusri Nasrullah, Hiam Abbass, Fadi Abi Samra, Hussein Abou Seada
Yousry Nasrallah’s powerful adaptation of Lebanese writer Elias Khoury’s epic novel of fifty years of Palestinian dispossession Read More »
Histoires d’Amérique: Food, Family and Philosophy (1989) Chantal Akerman, Mark Amitin, Eszter Balint, Kirk Baltz
The stories of Jewish immigrants in New York City are told with characteristic humor. Read More »
The Taste of Others / Le goût des autres (2000) Agnès Jaoui, Anne Alvaro, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Alain Chabat
Three men, three women, opposites, possibilities, and tastes. Castella owns a industrial steel barrel plant in Rouen Read More »
Ways of Love / Jofroi (1933) Marcel Pagnol, Vincent Scotto, Henri Poupon, Annie Toinon
In a country town of Provence, a landowner threatens to kill himself after Read More »
Skin of Man, Heart of Beast / Peau d’homme coeur de bête (1999) Hélène Angel, Serge Riaboukine, Bernard Blancan, Pascal Cervo
Its the story of a guy who returns to his family after being gone for fifteen years. Read More »
Eyes Wide Open / Einaym Pkuhot (2009) Haim Tabakman, Zohar Shtrauss, Ran Danker, Tinkerbell
Aaron (Zohar Shtrauss), a respected butcher and a family man in an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Read More »
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 »