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Tag Archives: France
Rice People / Neak sre (1994) Rithy Panh, Peng Phan, Mom Soth, Chhim Naline
In Cambodian refugee camps, when children are asked where rice comes from, they answer, “from UN lorries”. Read More »
The Gendarme gets married / Le gendarme se marie (1968) Jean Girault, Louis de Funès, Jean Lefebvre, Geneviève Grad
The gendarme Cruchot meets the widow Josepha. They quickly fall in love but Cruchot’s daughter Read More »
The Second Time / La seconda volta (1995) Mimmo Calopresti, Nanni Moretti, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Valeria Milillo
Professor Alberto Sajevo sees a woman walking in downtown Turin and starts following her for days Read More »
Salvador Allende (2004) Patricio Guzmán, Salvador Allende, Jacques Bidou
From his childhood in Valparaiso to his death during the Pinochet military coup Read More »
The Cat / Il gatto (1977) Luigi Comencini, Ugo Tognazzi, Mariangela Melato, Michel Galabru
Amedeo and Ofelia, middle aged brother and sister, own jointly an old decadent Read More »
Bernadette Lafont, and God Created the Free Woman / Bernadette Lafont et Dieu créa la femme libre (2016) Esther Hoffenberg, Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Michel Demonteix
A journey in the company of Bernadette Lafont, French Cinema’s most atypical actress. Read More »
Once a Thief (1965) Ralph Nelson, Alain Delon, Ann-Margret, Van Heflin
Eddie Pedak, a convicted criminal, has a steady job, a wife and daughter Read More »
Happy (2015) Arthur Jalta, Isabelle Ryan, Jordan Goldnadel
Florent, a 23 year-old Parisian, meets Alessia, a lost American girl from Texas Read More »
French Provincial / Souvenirs d’en France (1975) André Téchiné, Jeanne Moreau, Michel Auclair, Marie-France Pisier
In the 1930s, we follow the story of the laundress Berthe who marries the eldest son of a bourgeois family. Read More »