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 »
Tag Archives: France
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 »
Flatfoot (1973) Steno, Bud Spencer, Adalberto Maria Merli, Raymond Pellegrin
Adventures of the police inspector “Flatfoot” Rizzo in the slums of Naples. Read More »
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 »