Her parents and a former lover try to help a woman out of an apparently unjustified catatonic condition. Read More »
Tag Archives: France
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 »
Le Sex Shop (1972) Claude Berri, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Juliet Berto, Claude Berri
The owner of a bookshop in Paris suffers a personal crisis. Read More »
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 »