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Tag Archives: France
Jimmy P. (2013) Arnaud Desplechin, Benicio Del Toro, Mathieu Amalric, Gina McKee

A troubled Native American veteran forms an extraordinary friendship with his maverick French psychoanalyst Read More »
Retour à Kotelnitch (2003) Emmanuel Carrère

Kotelnitch is a small town 800 km east of Moscow. The author went on the trail of a Hungarian prisoner Read More »
The Night of Truth / La nuit de la vérité (2004) Fanta Régina Nacro, Moussa Cissé, Georgette Paré, Adama Ouédraogo

La Nuit de la Vérité is situated in an imaginary West African country. After ten years of civil war between Read More »
Aïcha (2024) Mehdi Barsaoui, Fatma Sfarr, Hela Ayed, Ala BenHamad

Aya, thirty-year-old Tunisian, lives in Tozeur, a city in southern Tunisia, at the gates of the desert. Read More »
Les Témoins / The Witnesses (2007) André Téchiné, Michel Blanc, Emmanuelle Béart, Sami Bouajila

June 1984 to June 1985, from happy days to war to summer’s return. A middle-aged doctor in Paris, Adrien Read More »
Je veux tout (1978) Claude Pierson, Marie-Dominique Cabanne, France Lomay, Claude Janna

Jenny Feeling – Ragazza alla Pari – is a maid always willing to have sex with her host’s grandson in the kitchen. Read More »
Ça commence aujourd’hui (1999) Bertrand Tavernier, Philippe Torreton, Maria Pitarresi, Nadia Kaci

In a mining town which has been blighted by economic downturns, an elementary school headmaster struggles Read More »
The Wild Goose Chase (1975) Claude Zidi, Pierre Richard, Jane Birkin, Michel Aumont

The whole intrigue is centered around carte-blanche documents kept in a vault. Read More »
Lumière (1966) Marc Allégret, Auguste Lumière, Claude Dauphin

This film comprises material filmed by Louis, Auguste and their staff in Europe and America between 1894 and 1900. Read More »