
Rene is a “ripou”, a rotten cop who makes ends meet by accepting bribes, presents and free drinks from the people he should be putting in jail. Read More »
Tag Archives: France
Le Joueur d’Echecs / The Chess Player (1927) Raymond Bernard, Pierre Blanchar, Charles Dullin, Édith Jéhanne, Drama, Fantasy

In 1776, an inventor conceals a Polish nobleman in his chess-playing automaton, a machine whose fame leads it to the court of the Russian empress. Read More »
Secret défense / Secret Defense (1998) Jacques Rivette, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Grégoire Colin, Crime, Drama

A young biologist (Sylvie) is thrown into confusion when her brother (Paul) tries to persuade her that their father, who fell off a train five years ago Read More »
Cztery noce z Anna / Four Nights With Anna (2008) Jerzy Skolimowski, Artur Steranko, Kinga Preis, Jerzy Fedorowicz, Crime, Drama, Thriller

A worker, Leon, is deeply in love with Anna. (None of them are really young). During night time Leon will enter an open window and merely be sitting and looking at the sleeping Anna. Read More »
Toute une nuit / A whole night (1982) Chantal Akerman, Aurore Clément, Tchéky Karyo, Angelo Abazoglou, Drama

Following over two dozen different people in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, Akerman examines acception and rejection in the realm of romance. Read More »
Cantando dietro i paraventi / Singing Behind Screens (2003) Ermanno Olmi, Bud Spencer, Jun Ichikawa, Sally Ming Zeo Ni, Drama, History, Music, War

A young Western student, of unusual candor, due to a misunderstanding of address, is led to a theater-brothel for customers inclined to strong and transgressive emotions. Read More »
Le fate ignoranti / The Ignorant Fairies (2001) Ferzan Ozpetek, Margherita Buy, Stefano Accorsi, Serra Yilmaz, Drama, Romance

AIDS doctor Antonia’s husband is killed by a car. She gets depressed until she learns he had been cheating on her with a man. Read More »
Afriques: Comment ça va avec la douleur? / Africa, How Are You with Pain? (1996) Raymond Depardon, Documentary

Only a microphone on his camera, Raymond Depardon has surveyed Africa from July 1993 to February 1996. Read More »
Amarcord / I Remember (1973) Federico Fellini, Magali Noël, Bruno Zanin, Pupella Maggio, Comedy, Drama

One year in a small northern Italian coastal town in the late 1930s is presented. Read More »
Amer (2009) Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani, Cassandra Forêt, Charlotte Eugène Guibeaud, Marie Bos, Horror, Thriller

Three key moments, all of them sensual, define Ana’s life. Her carnal search sways between reality and colored fantasies becoming more and more oppressive. Read More »