
In Lausanne, the aspirant pianist Jeanne Pollet has lunch with her mother Louise Pollet, her boyfriend Axel and his mother. Read More »
Tag Archives: France
The Horse of Pride (1980) Claude Chabrol, Jacques Dufilho, Bernadette Le Saché, François Cluzet

In early twentieth-century Brittany, two peasants marry, have a son, and live in traditional Breton ways: three generations under one roof Read More »
A Story of Women (1988) Claude Chabrol, Isabelle Huppert, François Cluzet, Marie Trintignant, Drama, Romance

Marie Latour, a woman of limited schooling, raises two children in a ratty flat during World War II in occupied France. Read More »
An Andalusian Dog (1929) Luis Buñuel, Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Short, Fantasy, Horror

In a dream-like sequence, a woman’s eye is slit open–juxtaposed with a similarly shaped cloud obsucuring the moon moving in the same direction Read More »
Hell on the Beach (1966) José Bénazéraf, Marina Nicolaïdes, Georges Planchon, Georges Claess, Crime, Drama

Alex, a former mercenary out of business, lives on a yacht anchored off Antibes with his wife, the beautiful and tight Helen and John, a former lover of it. Read More »
The Golden Mass (1975) Beni Montresor, Lucia Bosé, Maurice Ronet, Eva Axén, Drama, Erotic

David and Helene are a bored, rich, bourgeois couple stuck in a stale sexless marriage, who lives in a lush Art Nouveau chateau on the outskirts of Paris, France. Read More »
The Man from Acapulco (1973) Philippe de Broca, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacqueline Bisset, Vittorio Caprioli, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Francois Merlin is an espionnage-book writer. He likes to mix every-day character he can met in his book. Read More »
I Killed Rasputin (1967) Robert Hossein, Gert Fröbe, Peter McEnery, Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Grigori Rasputin becomes a fixture of Russia’s Imperial Court after saving the life of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, the haemophiliac heir to the throne. Read More »
The Red and the Black (1954) Claude Autant-Lara, Gérard Philipe, Danielle Darrieux, Antonella Lualdi, Drama, Romance

It’s no holds barred for Julian in pursuit of upward mobility. Although expected to channel career aspirations into the Church of the post- Napoleonic era Read More »
Nelly and Mr. Arnaud (1995) Claude Sautet, Emmanuelle Béart, Michel Serrault, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Drama

When Nelly, a woman being just divorced, meets by chance M. Arnaud, a mature salesman just retired, begins a strange and special relationship between the two personalities. Read More »