Aging opera singer Joachim Dallayrac retires from the stage and retreats to the countryside Read More »
Tag Archives: France
The Pearl Button AKA El botón de nácar (2015) Patricio Guzmán, Martín Calderón, Cristina
The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those that come from outer space. Read More »
Au bonheur des dames (1930) Julien Duvivier, Dita Parlo, Ginette Maddie, Andrée Brabant
Denise, an orphaned girl, moves to Paris where she hopes to find work at her uncle’s store. Read More »
The Day of the Jackal (1973) Fred Zinnemann, Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair
It is the early 60s in France. The remaining survivors of the aborted French Foreign Legion have made repeated attempts to kill DeGaulle. Read More »
No and Me AKA No et moi (2010) Zabou Breitman, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Nina Rodriguez, Antonin Chalon
Thirteen-year-old Lou Bertignac is a gifted but lonely child. At high school she is already in fifth grade Read More »
Operation Sunflower AKA Mivtza Hamaniya (2014) Avraham Kushnir, Yehoram Gaon, Baruch Brener, Daniella Kertesz
The Iranians are bringing missiles out of their bunkers and within an hour and a half they will be prepared Read More »
The invention of Morel AKA L’invention de Morel (1967) Claude-Jean Bonnardot, Alain Saury, Juliette Mills, Didier Conti
Escaped from prison, Luis finds refuge on a distant island where, it’s said, many individuals have died long back of a mysterious ailment. Read More »
The Living Dead Girl AKA La morte vivante (1982) Jean Rollin, Marina Pierro, Françoise Blanchard, Mike Marshall
A toxic spill revives a beautiful, dead heiress who, with the help of her childhood friend, must quench her insatiable thirst for blood. Read More »
Climates AKA Iklimler (2006) Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ebru Ceylan, Nazan Kesal
Man was made to be happy for simple reasons and unhappy for even simpler ones – just as he is born for simple reasons and dies for even simpler ones… Read More »
Il divo (2008) Paolo Sorrentino, Toni Servillo
The narration spans the period since the seventh election of Andreotti as Prime Minister of Italy in 1992 Read More »