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Tag Archives: France
La Ronde (1950) Max Ophüls, Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani

An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. Read More »
The Raven (1943) Henri-Georges Clouzot, Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey

A vicious series of poison-pen letters spreads rumours, suspicion and fear among the inhabitants of a small French town Read More »
Car Cemetery (1983) Fernando Arrabal, Alain Bashung, Juliet Berto, Micha Bayard

Combining punk rock and post-apocalyptic mayhem, Arrabal’s outrageous adaptation of his infamous stage play is a gallows-humor romp in a wretched dystopia. Read More »
Night Sun (1990) Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, Julian Sands, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Massimo Bonetti

Young nobleman Baron Sergio Giuramondo, after discovering that his bride-to-be was the king’s mistress Read More »
The General of the Dead Army (1983) Luciano Tovoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Michel Piccoli

In the early 1960s, nearly 20 years since the Second World War ended, an Italian general Read More »
Quay of the Goldsmiths (1947) Henri-Georges Clouzot, Louis Jouvet, Simone Renant, Bernard Blier

Jenny Lamour wants to succeed in music hall. Her husband and accompanist is Maurice Martineau, a nice but jealous guy. Read More »
Michel Strogoff (1926) Viktor Tourjansky, Ivan Mozzhukhin, Nathalie Kovanko, Acho Chakatouny

Things look bleak for Russia when the invading Tartars cut off all telecommunications between the border cities and the capital. Read More »
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky, Lars Rudolph, Peter Fitz, Hanna Schygulla

This story takes place in a small town on the Hungarian Plain. In a provincial town, which is surrounded with nothing else but frost. Read More »
Donne-moi tes yeux (1943) Sacha Guitry, Geneviève Guitry, Aimé Clariond

A renowned sculptor aged about fifty years, François Bressolles falls for the young Catherine Collet Read More »