A man whose wife has died remarries, and his new wife has a daughter of her own from a previous marriage. Read More »
Tag Archives: France
Rey (2017) Niles Atallah, Rodrigo Lisboa, Claudio Riveros
In 1860, a French lawyer dreamed of becoming the King of Patagonia. And he did just that. Or so it seems. Read More »
Nirvana (1997) Gabriele Salvatores, Christopher Lambert, Diego Abatantuono, Sergio Rubini
Jimi, a successful computer game designer, finds that his latest product has been infected by a virus Read More »
Black Crown AKA La corona negra (1951) Luis Saslavsky, María Félix, Rossano Brazzi, Vittorio Gassman
A young engineer, Andrés, welcomes a young woman, María, who suffers from amnesia. Read More »
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel AKA Beaumarchais l’insolent (1996) Édouard Molinaro, Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kiberlain, Manuel Blanc, Michel Aumont
The life story of the titular Beaumarchais (Fabrice Luchini), playwright and adventurer Read More »
The Blonde from Peking AKA La blonde de Pékin (1967) Nicolas Gessner, Claudio Brook, Mireille Darc, Françoise Brion
An amnesic young woman is found fainting on a bench. Read More »
My Enemy’s Enemy (2007) Kevin Macdonald, Raymond Aubrac, Robert Badinter, Klaus Barbie
A look at the history of one-time Gestapo commander Klaus Barbie, infamously known as “The Butcher of Lyon.” Read More »
The Way I Spent the End of the World AKA Cum mi-am petrecut sfârsitul lumii (2006) Cãtãlin Mitulescu, Dorotheea Petre, Timotei Duma, Ioan Albu
Bucharest 1989 – the last year of Ceausescu’s dictatorship. Eva lives with her parents and her 7 year old brother, Lalalilu. Read More »
Manon (1949) Henri-Georges Clouzot, Serge Reggiani, Michel Auclair, Cécile Aubry
An adaptation of Abbe Prevost’s classic French novel ‘Manon Lescaut’, updated to post-World War II France Read More »
The Possessed AKA Les possédés (1988) Andrzej Wajda, Isabelle Huppert, Jutta Lampe, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu
This story begins in 1870 at a little town somewhere in Russia. It processed the real “Nyecsajev story”. Read More »