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Tag Archives: France
The Finger Man / Le doulos (1962) Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Jean Desailly
Fresh out of prison and hell-bent on revenge, the recently paroled burglar, Maurice Faugel Read More »
The Aquarium / Genainat el-Asmak (2008) Yusri Nasrullah, Hind Sabri, Amr Waked, Gamil Ratib
A 48-hour journey into Modern Cairo following the parallel lives of Youssef and Leila. Read More »
Corsage (2022) Marie Kreutzer, Vicky Krieps, Colin Morgan, Tamás Lengyel
A fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. Read More »
The Big Night (1959) La notte brava
In Rome, small-time thieves Scinttilone and Ruggeretto steal four rifles Read More »
Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (2021) Arthur Harari
When Japan surrenders at the end of World War II, soldier Hiroo Onoda Read More »
Between Love and Duty / Le bois des amants (1960) Claude Autant-Lara, Laurent Terzieff, Erika Remberg, Horst Frank
WW2, in occupied Brittany: a military German woman comes to visit her husband, a Kommandatur officer. Read More »
Courier of Lyons / L’affaire du courrier de Lyon (1937) Claude Autant-Lara, Maurice Lehmann, Pierre Blanchar, Dita Parlo, Jacques Copeau
Historical drama based on a true case of miscarriage of justice, the “Joseph Lesurques case” of 1796. Read More »
The Heart’s Cry / Le cri du coeur (1994) Idrissa Ouedraogo, Richard Bohringer, Saïd Diarra, Félicité Wouassi
Moctar lives in Mali with his mother Saffi and his ailing grandfather. Read More »
Killing Mad Dogs / Sagkoshi (2001) Bahram Beizai, Mozhdeh Shamsai, Majid Mozaffari, Reza Kianian
Golrokh an Iranian lady who is a talented author struggles to settle her presumably disloyal Read More »