After having been forced to leave the Soviet Union 1929 Trotsky has ended up in Mexico 1940. Read More »
Tag Archives: France
The Wooden Camera (2003) Ntshaveni Wa Luruli, Junior Singo, Dana de Agrella, Innocent Msimango
Kayelitsha, South-Africa, today. 2003 A township, close to Cape-town, after the end of Apartheid. Read More »
Unhook the Stars (1996) Nick Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Marisa Tomei, Gérard Depardieu
Mildred is a widow who discovers a whole new world when her grown children move away. Read More »
Bluebeard AKA Landru (1963) Claude Chabrol, Michèle Morgan, Danielle Darrieux, Hildegard Knef
France, WWI. Landru, the father of four children, contacts Parisian women through newspaper ads, seduces and eventually kills them. Read More »
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 »