Pierre Fresnay plays the title role of a dedicated man Read More »
Tag Archives: France
The Italian of the Roses / L’Italien des Roses (1972) Charles Matton, Richard Bohringer, Isabelle Mercanton, Andrée Fleur
A young man, called The Italian of the Roses, is on the roof edge Read More »
Cigalon (1935) Marcel Pagnol, Arnaudy, Henri Poupon, Marguerite Chabert
Cigalon (Alexandre Arnaudy) manages a restaurant in a small town in Provence. Read More »
Young Soul Rebels (1991) Isaac Julien, Valentine Nonyela, Mo Sesay, Dorian Healy
Youth culture meets identity politics in this part-thriller, part-gay love story set Read More »
I Am Dina (2002) Ole Bornedal, Tony Spataro, Maria Bonnevie, Gérard Depardieu, Christopher Eccleston
Dina grows up in a village at a fjord in 1860s north Norway. Read More »
The Pearls of the Crown / Les perles de la couronne (1937) Sacha Guitry, Jacqueline Delubac, Lyn Harding
Three narrators (French writer Jean Martin, an English royal equerry, and a papal chamberlain) Read More »
King of Thieves / König der Diebe (2004) Ivan Fíla, Lazar Ristovski, Iakov Kultiasov, Katharina Thalbach
Two amateur circus kids from a poor Ukrainian village, ten-year-old Barbu and his older sister Mimma Read More »
The Man Who Loved Women / L’homme qui aimait les femmes (1977) François Truffaut, Charles Denner, Brigitte Fossey, Nelly Borgeaud
Bertrand Morane’s burial is attended by all the women the forty-year-old engineer loved. Read More »
Giorgino (1994) Laurent Boutonnat, Jeff Dahlgren, Mylène Farmer, Joss Ackland
October 1918: After returning to the civil life, the young Doctor Giorgio Volli searches Read More »
The Light Across the Street / La lumière d’en face (1955) Georges Lacombe, Raymond Pellegrin, Roger Pigaut, Brigitte Bardot
Considered the first film to showcase Bardot’s natural sensuality: Story in flashback Read More »