Pierre, 44, contentedly divorced, takes his teen daughter to the Côte d’Azur along with his friend Jacques and Jacques’ own teen daughter, Françoise. Read More »
Tag Archives: France
The Profession of Arms (2001) Il mestiere delle armi
The history of the first victim of modern artillery and its moving agony, amidst conspiracies and betrayals of the powerful. Read More »
The Wing and the Thigh (1976) L’aile ou la cuisse
Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and the publisher of a famous restaurant guide Read More »
Miss Bonaparte (1942) Maurice Tourneur
Cora Pearl, a demi-mondaine under the Second Empire, falls in love with a legitimist while she is the mistress of Jérôme Bonaparte, the cousin of Napoleon III. Read More »
The World Will Shake (1939) Le Monde tremblera
In this sci-fi film, a scientist invents a prescient machine that can tell people when they will die. Read More »
A Woman Escapes (2022)
A woman moves to Paris to tend to the home of a recently deceased friend and begins a video correspondence Read More »
Days of Love (1954) Giorni d’amore
Two young peasants, Angela and Pasquale, promised for several years, are postponing marriage for financial reasons. Read More »
East – West (1999) Est – Ouest – Régis Wargnier
June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. Read More »
Sortez des rangs (1996) Fall Out
11-year-old Michel, whose father was shot in the wake of the 1917 army mutiny Read More »
Ancestral Visions of the Future (2025)
In a dreamlike journey through memory and myth, a young boy’s experiences in Lesotho blend with cinema’s magic Read More »