Noel Annequin is the black sheep of a social-climbing bourgeois family who married Read More »
Tag Archives: France
Four Flights to Love AKA Paradis perdu (1940) Abel Gance, Fernand Gravey, Elvire Popesco, André Alerme
Before World War I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre Leblanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker’s assistant. Read More »
The Violin Case Murders AKA Schüsse aus dem Geigenkasten (1965) Fritz Umgelter, George Nader, Heinz Weiss, Sylvia Pascal
The first Jerry Cotton movie is a good one. Jerry’s after crooks who pose as a musical band. Read More »
The Bar at the Crossing AKA Le bar de la fourche (1972) Alain Levent, Jacques Brel, Rosy Varte, Malka Ribowska
In 1916, Vincent van Horst leaves Europe to return to his Canadian homeland. Read More »
L for Leisure (2014) Whitney Horn, Lev Kalman, Gabriel Abrantes, Melissa Barrera, Bene Coopersmith
L for Leisure is a comedy following a group of graduate students across 10 vacations in 1992 Read More »
Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories AKA Cha và con và… (2015) Dang Di Phan, Thi Hai Yen Do, Ha Phong Nguyen, Cong Hoang Le
It is the late nineties, Vietnam is in economic turmoil and overpopulation has sparked political concern. Read More »
La noia AKA The Empty Canvas (1963) Damiano Damiani, Bette Davis, Horst Buchholz, Catherine Spaak
The son of a wealthy American woman and a deceased Italian nobleman, Dino, dabbles away at painting. Read More »
My Father Is an Engineer AKA Mon père est ingénieur (2004) Robert Guédiguian, Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan
Her parents and a former lover try to help a woman out of an apparently unjustified catatonic condition. Read More »
The Woman with Red Boots / La femme aux bottes rouges (1974) Juan Luis Buñuel, Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Adalberto Maria Merli
After a chance meeting with avant garde writer Francoise, an elderly millionaire starts to manipulate her life Read More »
Devil’s Ransom / Senza via d’uscita (1970) Piero Sciumè, Marisa Mell, Philippe Leroy, Lea Massari
A couple of blackmailers abduct a child from a married couple Read More »