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Tag Archives: France
The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968) Jack Cardiff, Marianne Faithfull, Alain Delon, Roger Mutton

Newly-married Rebecca leaves her husband’s Alsatian bed on her prized motorbike Read More »
Savage Souls / Les âmes fortes (2001) Raoul Ruiz, Laetitia Casta, Frédéric Diefenthal, Arielle Dombasle

At a wake one night in 1945, a group of aged women recall the life of one of their number. Read More »
Outsiders / Ceddo (1977) Ousmane Sembene, Tabata Ndiaye, Alioune Fall, Moustapha Yade

The Ceddo try to preserve their traditional African culture against the onslaught of Islam Read More »
House of Tolerance / L’Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close) (2011) Bertrand Bonello, Noémie Lvovsky, Hafsia Herzi, Céline Sallette

Life in an elegant Parisian brothel in the early twentieth century. Read More »
A Heart in Winter / Un coeur en hiver (1992) Claude Sautet, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, André Dussollier

Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel Read More »
The Night of the Sunflowers / La noche de los girasoles (2006) Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo, Carmelo Gómez, Judith Diakhate, Celso Bugallo

As the dead body of a sexually assaulted young woman rests hidden in a sunflower field Read More »
A Woman Like Satan / La femme et le pantin (1958) Julien Duvivier, Brigitte Bardot, Antonio Vilar, Lila Kedrova

Handsome and rich Spanish gentleman abandons his wife and riches for his love of a young girl Read More »
Where are you going, Aida? / Quo vadis, Aida? (2020) Jasmila Zbanic, Jasna Djuricic, Izudin Bajrovic, Boris Ler

Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. Read More »
Stealing Beauty (1996) Bernardo Bertolucci, Jeremy Irons, Liv Tyler, Carlo Cecchi

For 20 years many visitors have come to the villa on an Italian hilltop owned by an English artist. Read More »