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Tag Archives: France
Frontier of the Dawn / La frontière de l’aube (2008) Philippe Garrel, Louis Garrel, Laura Smet, Clémentine Poidatz
A celebrity is caught by her husband with a young lover. She ends the relationship, but slowly goes insane. Read More »
The Banned Woman / La femme défendue (1997) Philippe Harel, Isabelle Carré, Nathalie Conio
39-year-old François meets 22-year-old Muriel, who is a virgin. Read More »
Farrebique ou Les quatre saisons (1946) Georges Rouquier
Farrebique, the first feature-length effort of French documentary filmmaker Read More »
The Secrets / Ha-Sodot (2007) Avi Nesher, Fanny Ardant, Ania Bukstein, Michal Shtamler
In The Secrets, two brilliant young women discover their own voices in a repressive Read More »
Tomorrow We Move / Demain on déménage (2004) Chantal Akerman, Sylvie Testud, Aurore Clément, Jean-Pierre Marielle
The late Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman brings us an intellectual comedy about a mother Read More »
Erotic Witchcraft / La goulve (1972) Mario Mercier, Bepi Fontana, Hervé Hendrickx, César Torres, Anne Varèze
Axel, the magician, raises a boy into adulthood. When Axel dies, it’s the young man Read More »
TGV (1998) Moussa Touré, Makena Diop, Al Hamdou Traore, Bernard Giraudeau
The TGV? No, it is not the famous French high-speed train, but instead the rickety and colourful bus operated Read More »
Empty Nest / El nido vacío (2008) Daniel Burman, Oscar Martínez, Cecilia Roth, Inés Efron
A chronicle of the emptiness felt when ones children have left home Read More »
The Beaches of Agnès / Les plages d’Agnès (2008) Agnès Varda, André Lubrano, Blaise Fournier
At nearly 80, Agnès Varda explores her memory – growing up in Belgium, living in Sète, Paris, and Noirmoutier Read More »