Tells the story of Vladek who sneaks into a smuggling gang. He manages to get women and dough. Read More »
Tag Archives: France
Room Temperature (2025) Dennis Cooper
A family’s annual haunted house tradition becomes dominated by the father’s obsessive vision Read More »
Servant and Mistress (1977) Servante et maîtresse
When a rich man dies, his maid Maria unexpectedly becomes his heir. Read More »
Les cinéphiles 3 – Les ruses de Frédéric (2007)
More young cinephiles in part three of Skorecki’s three part film. Read More »
Un meurtre est un meurtre (1972) Murder Is a Murder
Paul Kastner’s wife dies in tragic circumstances. Although Paul is, or seems, blameless, a stranger soon appears in town who maintains he has evidence to show Paul in fact murdered the woman. Read More »
La doublure (2006) The Valet – Francis Veber
A Parisian valet loves a woman who rejects him: she’s in debt to open a bookshop, and he’s not her ideal man. Read More »
Summer Lights (2016) Lumières d’été
On the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Akihiro, a native Japanese filmmaker living in Paris Read More »
Les cinéphiles 2 – Eric a disparu (1989)
Continuation of the essay on the cinema of Louis Skorecki through the relations of some young cinephiles. Read More »
Sait-on jamais… (1957) No Sun in Venice
Cute Sophie is an amoral French girl living in a sumptuous Venetian palazzo. She is the kept woman of a very rich but undesirable fellow named Eric von Bergen, an ex-nazi turned forger. Read More »
Once You’re Born You Can No Longer Hide (2005)
A young Italian boy accidentally falls overboard while yachting with his father on the Mediterranean. Read More »