The final installment in Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy, ‘Paradise: Hope’ tells the story of overweight thirteen-year-old Melanie and her first love. Read More »
Tag Archives: France
A Purple Taxi (1977) Yves Boisset, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Noiret, Peter Ustinov
With his mauve taxi, the old philosopher Dr. Seamus Scully (Fred Astaire) runs around the small green roads of the south of Ireland Read More »
The Gypsy (1975) José Giovanni, Alain Delon, Paul Meurisse, Annie Girardot
Hugo Sennart is a French Gypsy, wanted by the police for theft. Read More »
Sunflower (1970) Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Lyudmila Saveleva
At the end of World War II, Giovanna, a war bride living near Milan refuses to accept that her husband Read More »
Mascara (1987) Patrick Conrad, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Sarrazin, Derek de Lint
A respected police commissioner has a reputation as a fervent opera lover Read More »
Riverbanks (2015) Panos Karkanevatos, Diamantis Adamantidis, Efi Drosou, Taxiarhis Hanos
John is an introvert young soldier serving as a minesweeper in Evros. Read More »
Paradise: Faith (2012) Ulrich Seidl, Maria Hofstätter, Nabil Saleh, René Rupnik
Anna Maria, a single woman in her 50s, devotes her summer vacation to doing missionary work Read More »
Through the Forest (2005) Jean-Paul Civeyrac, Jehnny Beth, Aurélien Wiik, Morgane Hainaux
After the death of Renaud, her boyfriend, Armelle can’t possibly take him out of her mind. Read More »
Colossal Youth (2006) Pedro Costa, Ventura, Vanda Duarte, Beatriz Duarte
After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon Read More »
Too Early, Too Late (1982) Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Bahgat Elnadi, Gérard Samaan
A sequence of shots of rural landscapes accompanied by readings of texts about the struggles of poor farmers. Read More »