Paris 1913. Coco Chanel is infatuated with the rich and handsome Boy Capel, but she is also compelled by her work. Read More »
Tag Archives: France
Who Works Is Lost AKA Chi lavora è perduto (In capo al mondo) (1963) Tinto Brass, Sady Rebbot, Pascale Audret, Tino Buazzelli
Bonifacio is 27 years old and he is roaming about Venice. He is trying to decide whether to accept a job or not. Read More »
Up and Down AKA Parpaillon (1993) Luc Moullet, Jean Abeillé, Clément Boutterin, Brigitte Canaan
A bicycle race is held every year in a pass of the Alps called Parpaillon. Read More »
Shipwrecked on Route D 17 AKA Les naufragés de la D17 (2002) Luc Moullet, Patrick Bouchitey, Iliana Lolitch, Sabine Haudepin
During the Gulf War, the paths of several groups of characters cross in France’s most desert-like region. Read More »
It’s Winter AKA Zemestan (2006) Rafi Pitts, Mitra Hajjar, Ali Nicksaulat, Said Orkani
A man is fired from his job. Having no more options, he decides to go find work abroad, leaving behind his wife and daughter. Read More »
The Cow and I AKA La vache et le prisonnier (1959) Henri Verneuil, Fernandel, Pierre-Louis, Ellen Schwiers
In 1942, a French prisonner of war in Germany decide to escape to France using a cow hold by a lunge as a decoy. He cross all Germany in this way. Read More »
The Treasure of the Silver Lake (1962)
In Arkansas, a stagecoach is robbed by Colonel Brinkley’s gang. Read More »
The Legacy AKA L’héritage (2006) Géla Babluani, Temur Babluani, Sylvie Testud, Stanislas Merhar, Olga Legrand
Three French hipsters and their translator travel through rural Georgia to claim a remote, ruined castle that one of them has inherited. Read More »
Modigliani (2004) Mick Davis, Andy Garcia, Elsa Zylberstein, Omid Djalili
Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Read More »
Love at Twenty (1962) L’amour à vingt ans
“Love at Twenty” unites five directors from around the world to present their different perspectives Read More »