A picaresque tale. Odd Horton is dependable and contained: he’s a train engineer retiring Read More »
Tag Archives: France
Françoise Steps Out / Rue de l’Estrapade (1953) Jacques Becker, Daniel Gélin, Louis Jourdan, Anne Vernon
While Henri Laurent speeds along on the racing circuits, his pretty wife Françoise goes from luxury boutique Read More »
Tell Me / Dis-moi (1980)
Chantal Akerman interviews her mother, and other elderly women who survived the Holocaust. Read More »
Antoine and Colette / Antoine et Colette (1962) François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Patrick Auffay
Antoine Doinel is 17, lives in a hotel and works in a factory making records; he loves music. Read More »
No Problem! / Pas de problème! (1975) Georges Lautner, Miou-Miou, Jean Lefebvre, Bernard Menez
Following a car chase and shootout, a man stumbles into a girl’s apartment and dies. Read More »
Once Upon A Forest / Il était une forêt (2013) Luc Jacquet, Francis Hallé, Michel Papineschi
From the creators of March of the Penguins and The Fox and the Child. Read More »
Life Together / La vie a deux (1958) Clément Duhour, Pierre Brasseur, Danielle Darrieux, Sophie Desmarets
The writer Pierre Carot became rich and famous with his book “Life as a Couple” Read More »
Gangsters (2002) Olivier Marchal, Richard Anconina, Anne Parillaud, François Levantal
Franck Chaievski and Nina Delgado are two undercover detectives of a French special force Read More »
Women Are Like That / Comment qu’elle est! (1960) Bernard Borderie, Eddie Constantine, Françoise Brion, Alfred Adam
FBI agent Lemmy Caution arrives from the USA, his mission to uncover a dangerous spy named Varley. Read More »
Twentynine Palms (2003) Bruno Dumont, Yekaterina Golubeva, David Wissak
David is an independent American photographer in pursuit of unspoiled natural locations Read More »