A Raiz do Coração (A Root of the Heart) is a Portuguese film set in the Lisbon during the festivities Read More »
Tag Archives: France
Burnt by the Sun / Utomlennye solntsem (1994) Nikita Mikhalkov, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Oleg Menshikov
Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his village Read More »
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 »