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Tag Archives: France
Valmont (1989) Milos Forman, Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly

Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. Read More »
The Skin AKA La pelle (1981) Liliana Cavani, Marcello Mastroianni, Ken Marshall, Alexandra King

After the Allies liberate Naples in 1943, the life for the locals is not much easier, especially for women. Read More »
Ayka (2018) Sergei Dvortsevoy, Samal Yeslyamova, Zhipara Abdilaeva, Sergey Mazur

A poor migrant woman in Moscow struggles with her life. Read More »
George Who? AKA George qui? (1973) Michèle Rosier, Anne Wiazemsky, Alain Libolt, Denis Gunsbourg

This interrogation of famed 19th century French writer, proto feminist George Sand Read More »
I Married a Shadow AKA J’ai épousé une ombre (1983) Robin Davis, Nathalie Baye, Francis Huster, Richard Bohringer

After a train accident, a woman survives and is mistaken for an other woman she just met on a train before the accident. Read More »
Fengming: A Chinese Memoir AKA He Fengming (2007) Bing Wang, Fengming He

Fengming looks back at over 30 years of her life… Read More »
Set Me Free / Emporte-moi (1999) Léa Pool, Karine Vanasse, Pascale Bussières, Predrag ‘Miki’ Manojlovic

Canadian/Swiss/French production that tells the tale of Hannah, a tomboyish 13 year-old hitting puberty in 1963. Read More »
The Charterhouse of Parma AKA La chartreuse de Parme (1948) Christian-Jaque, Renée Faure, Lucien Coëdel, Louis Salou

Fabrice del Dongo, a young archbishop, gives his all to romance rather than to the Church, creating complications for everyone around. Read More »
Ophélia (1963) Claude Chabrol, Alida Valli, Claude Cerval, André Jocelyn

A young man becomes enraged when his mother remarries his wealthy uncle after his father dies. Read More »