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Tag Archives: France
Map of the Human Heart (1992) Vincent Ward, Jason Scott Lee, Anne Parillaud, Patrick Bergin

Fantastic improbabilities, happenstance and the undying bridge of love are part of this romantic fantasy about an Inuit who crosses years Read More »
Everybody’s Fine / Stanno tutti bene (1990) Giuseppe Tornatore, Marcello Mastroianni, Michèle Morgan, Valéria Cavalli

Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat (responsible mainly for the writing of birth certificates) and a father of five children Read More »
Shoah: Four Sisters / Les quatre soeurs (2018) Claude Lanzmann, Paula Biren, Ruth Elias

Four interviews done in the 1970s with women who survived the Holocaust. Read More »
Guendalina (1957) Alberto Lattuada, Jacqueline Sassard, Raf Mattioli, Sylva Koscina

A teenage girl vacations in the Italian Riviera during the summer with her wealthy parents. Read More »
The Punishment / La punition (1962) Jean Rouch, Nadine Ballot, Jean-Claude Darnal, Modeste Landry

Nadine, an eighteen-year-old high school student in her final year, arrives late for the philosophy lesson. Read More »
Les compères / The ComDads (1983) Francis Veber, Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu, Anny Duperey

Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth Read More »
Hamaca paraguaya / Paraguayan Hammock (2006) Paz Encina, Ramon Del Rio, Georgina Genes, Jorge López

Set in 1935, a couple of aged smallholders are waiting for their son, for rain, for better days. Read More »
Il pirata dello sparviero nero / The Pirate of the Black Hawk (1958) Sergio Grieco, Gérard Landry, Pina Bottin, Andrea Aureli

Manfred, backed by Saracen pirates, deposes the Duke of Montfort, takes over the throne and kidnapped the Duke’s young son. Read More »
Buffet froid (1979) Bertrand Blier

Black comedy about solitude and the dehumanization of the modern world, through the adventures of three men. Read More »