Ambrosio is a monk who is sexually tempted by an emissary of the Devil, a young girl in monk’s robes. Read More »
Tag Archives: France
Coming Home (2012) Frédéric Videau, Agathe Bonitzer, Reda Kateb, Hélène Fillières
The girl Gaëlle Faroult is kidnapped at school when she is about eight by Vincent Maillard Read More »
Traffic (1971) Jacques Tati, Marcel Fraval, Honoré Bostel
At Altra Motors, Mr. Hulot designs an ingenious camper car with lots of clever features. Read More »
Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981) Marco Ferreri, Ben Gazzara, Ornella Muti, Susan Tyrrell
After a lecture where a poem is read out to a group of bored students, the alcoholic and sex addicted poet Read More »
Blow to the Heart (1983) Gianni Amelio, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Laura Morante, Sonia Gessner
Emilio, the son of Darius, a left-wing professor, is an introverted teenager who feels jealous of the relationship between his father and alumni. Read More »
The Day the Hot Line Got Hot (1968) Etienne Périer, Charles Boyer, Robert Taylor, Marie Dubois
The most ultra-secret telephone number of all is that of the “Hot’Line’ that links the heads of state of the United States and Moscow. Read More »
Tuesday’s Guest (1950) Jacques Deval, Bernard Blier, Michel Auclair, Madeleine Robinson
Charles is a good husband; he is not handsome but he contents himself with his collection of stamps, his slippers and his crepes. Read More »
1900 (1976) Bernardo Bertolucci, Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda
Set in Italy, the film follows the lives and interactions of two boys/men Read More »
Colonel Chabert (1994) Yves Angelo
Colonel Chabert has been severely wounded in the French-Russian Napoleonic war Read More »
Raphael or the Debauched One (1971) Michel Deville, Maurice Ronet, Françoise Fabian, Jean Vilar
1830, somewhere in France. Aurore is a young, beautiful and virtuous widow. She meets Raphael, a man of leisure, a debauchee. Read More »