Paris, 1925. A young woman, Caprice, has great ambitions of becoming a famous music hall singer Read More »
Tag Archives: France
Rock the Casbah (2012) Yariv Horowitz, Yon Tumarkin, Roy Nik, Henry David
The year is 1989. In an era of Palestinian demands for independence, the State of Israel sends young soldiers Read More »
Garibaldi (1961) Roberto Rossellini, Renzo Ricci, Paolo Stoppa, Franco Interlenghi
How Italy’s historic national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi led a military campaign Read More »
Declaration of War (2011) Valérie Donzelli, Jérémie Elkaïm, César Desseix
Roméo and Juliette are two young actors. They fall in love at first sight, move in together and make a baby. Read More »
There Is No Sexual Rapport (2011) Raphaël Siboni, Hervé P. Gustave, Cindy Dollar, Michael Cerrito
An amusing and poignant examination of one man’s career as a director-performer of pornography. Read More »
Queen of Montreuil (2012) Sólveig Anspach, Florence Loiret Caille, Didda Jónsdóttir, Úlfur Ægisson
It’s early summer and Agathe is back in France, at home in Montreuil. Read More »
Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman (1973) Roger Vadim, Brigitte Bardot, Robert Hossein, Mathieu Carrière
Jeanne lives in Paris and believes she is the reincarnation of Don Juan. She visits a priest and tells him she has killed a man. Read More »
Tower of Nesle (1955) Abel Gance, Pierre Brasseur, Silvana Pampanini, Paul Guers
France, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy Read More »
Who Knows? (2001) Jacques Rivette, Jeanne Balibar, Sergio Castellitto, Marianne Basler
The theatre world is a familiar setting for the films of Rivette. In Va savoir, the characters, all quick-witted Read More »
Kommunalka (2008) Françoise Huguier, Mano Siri
In Saint Petersburg in Russia, there still exists communal apartments, vestiges of the Soviet system. Read More »