France, WWI. Landru, the father of four children, contacts Parisian women through newspaper ads, seduces and eventually kills them. Read More »
Tag Archives: France
A Spiral of Mist AKA Una spirale di nebbia (1977) Eriprando Visconti, Marc Porel, Claude Jade, Carole Chauvet
The lovely Maria Teresa is unhappily married with the impotent lawyer Marcello. Read More »
The Day the Sky Exploded AKA La morte viene dallo spazio (1958) Paolo Heusch, Mario Bava, Paul Hubschmid, Madeleine Fischer, Fiorella Mari
Scientists discover that a group of meteors are hurtling on a collison course with Earth, and if they hit, the planet will be destroyed. Read More »
Dreams of Dust AKA Rêves de poussière (2006) Laurent Salgues, Makena Diop, Adama Ouédraogo, Rasmané Ouédraogo
A Nigerian peasant comes looking for work in Essakane, a dusty gold mine in Northeast Burkina Faso, where he hopes to forget the past that haunts him. Read More »
The Dinner Game AKA Le dîner de cons (1998) Francis Veber, Thierry Lhermitte, Jacques Villeret, Francis Huster, Daniel Prévost
To amuse themselves at a weekly dinner, a few well-heeled folk each bring a dimwit along who is to talk about his pastime. Read More »
El cantor (2005) Joseph Morder, Lou Castel, Luis Rego, Françoise Michaud
William’s great surprise, his cousin Clovis, whom he did not see again since around thirty years, arrives from New York to visit him. Read More »
A Girl Is a Gun AKA Une aventure de Billy le Kid (1971) Luc Moullet, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Rachel Kesterber, Jean Valmont
Despite most Cahiers du cinéma critics admired many western authors, when they themselves became filmmakers few dared to overtly revisit that genre. Read More »
I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse AKA J’irai comme un cheval fou (1973) Fernando Arrabal, Emmanuelle Riva, George Shannon, Hachemi Marzouk
When his mother dies, the police want to talk to Aden Rey, but Aden, a guilt-ridden epileptic, has left for the desert. Read More »
Trap for the Assassin AKA Roger la Honte (1966) Riccardo Freda, Georges Géret, Irene Papas, Jean-Pierre Marielle
In the period following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, Roger Laroque became the owner of a small factory. Read More »
Élisa (1995) Jean Becker, Vanessa Paradis, Gérard Depardieu, Clotilde Courau, Sekkou Sall
Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. Read More »