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Tag Archives: France
Gabrielle (2005) Patrice Chéreau, Isabelle Huppert, Pascal Greggory, Claudia Coli

Paris shortly before World War I. Wealthy and self-satisfied, Jean Hervey is returning home from work Read More »
The Wolf of the Malveneurs (1943) Guillaume Radot, Madeleine Sologne, Pierre Renoir, Gabrielle Dorziat

There’s a curse on the Malveneur family. There’s a black legend which tells that one of their ancestors sold his soul to the devil Read More »
The Gardener of Argenteuil (1966) Jean-Paul Le Chanois, Jean Gabin, Liselotte Pulver, Pierre Vernier

Under his daring look of flower lover and naive painter, Father Tulipe is a counterfeiter who only makes small cuts to improve his ordinary. Read More »
The Mourning Forest (2007) Naomi Kawase, Yôichirô Saitô, Kanako Masuda, Machiko Ono

A care-giver at a small retirement home takes one of her patients for a drive to the country Read More »
Lady Chatterley (2006) Pascale Ferran, Marina Hands, Jean-Louis Coulloc’h, Hippolyte Girardot

A French adaptation of the second (and much less well-known) version of D.H. Lawrence’s erotic tale. Read More »
No, or the Vain Glory of Command (1990) Manoel de Oliveira, Luís Miguel Cintra, Diogo Dória, Miguel Guilherme

Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier Read More »
Edge of Sanity (1989) Gérard Kikoïne, Anthony Perkins, Glynis Barber, Sarah Maur Thorp

When Henry Jekyll’s experiments with cocaine have gotten out of control, he transforms into the hideous Jack Hyde. Read More »
Keep It for Yourself (1991) Claire Denis, Sophie Simon, Sarina Chan, Vincent Gallo

Sophie comes to New York from France with the intention of joining a man she met a few months before. Read More »
Ki lo sa? (1986) Robert Guédiguian, Ariane Ascaride, Pierre Banderet, Jean-Pierre Darroussin

Here, Guédiguian regulars Ariane Ascaride, Gérard Meylan, Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Pierre Banderet play four disparate individuals who Read More »