
Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the village itself. Read More »
Tag Archives: France
The Beast (1975) Walerian Borowczyk, Sirpa Lane, Lisbeth Hummel, Elisabeth Kaza

“La Bête” by Walerian Borowczyk is based on the short story “Lokis” written by Prosper Merimée. Read More »
The Killing Game (1967) Alain Jessua, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claudine Auger, Michel Duchaussoy

Two cartoonists meet a playboy who lives out the fantasies created in their cartoons. Read More »
The Land of the Wandering Souls (2000) Rithy Panh

In 1999 a fibre-glas wire was installed from Thailand to Vietnam straight trough Cambodia. Read More »
The Oak (1992) Lucian Pintilie, Maia Morgenstern, Razvan Vasilescu, Victor Rebengiuc

A description of Romania before Ceausescu’s downfall, through the story of Nela. Read More »
Far (2001) André Téchiné, Stéphane Rideau, Lubna Azabal, Mohamed Hamaidi

Serge is a long distance lorry driver between Morocco and Europe. In Tangier, he tries to reconcile with his former girlfriend, Sarah. Read More »
Violanta (1977) Daniel Schmid, Lucia Bosé, Maria Schneider, Lou Castel

A young man raises the dead in a high valley where the power is held by Violanta. Read More »
Coral Reefs (1939) Maurice Gleize, Jean Gabin, Michèle Morgan, Saturnin Fabre

The adventures of a sailor (Lennard) from Mexico to a lagoon in the Pacific ocean, and the meeting with a lonely girl (Lilian White). Read More »
Mina de Vanghel (1953) Maurice Barry, Maurice Clavel, Odile Versois, Marie Sabouret, Alain Cuny

A romantic German girl is brought to France. After an interlude with an old roue Read More »
The Adolescent (1979) Jeanne Moreau, Simone Signoret, Francis Huster, Laetitia Chauveau

The summer of 1939. Marie, at 13, goes with her parents to visit her grandmother in a small town near Avignon. Read More »