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Tag Archives: France
François Premier / Francis the First (1937) Christian-Jaque, Fernandel, Mona Goya, Alexandre Rignault, Comedy
Honorin (Fernandel) is the simple and naive stage manager of a traveling theatre troupe, whose one ambition is to once play the role of the cavalier in the opera “Francis I, or the Loves of the Beautiful Ferroniere”.
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La Dolce Vita (1960) Federico Fellini, Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Comedy, Drama
Journalist and man-about-town Marcello struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome’s elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.
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Le rapport Darty (1989) Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville, Politics, Philosophy
A daring deconstruction of consumerist behaviour featuring a robot and Miss Clio Darty, with a voiceover by Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, this philosophical “report,” like so many of Godard’s commissions, was rejected by its funders.
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La captive du désert / Captive of the Desert (1990) Raymond Depardon, Sandrine Bonnaire, Dobi Koré, Fadi Taha, Drama
Based on the ordeal of Francoise Claustre, who was taken hostage by the Toubous, a nomadic tribe in the African desert.
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Hair Under the Roses AKA Du poil sous les roses (2000) Jean-Julien Chervier, Agnès Obadia, Julie Durand, Alexis Roucout, Alice Houri
Roudoudou, 14, is deeply in love. She makes a secret wish : to have big tits like her mother. Read More »
The Age of Ignorance / L’âge des ténèbres (2007) Denys Arcand, Marc Labrèche, Diane Kruger, Sylvie Léonard, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Jean-Marc is a man without qualities living in times that are out of joint. His wife and children ignore him; he’s a mid-level civil servant in Montreal doing his job without care.
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Inch’Allah dimanche (2001) Yamina Benguigui, Fejria Deliba, Rabia Mokeddem, Amina Annabi, Biography, Drama
The story of an immigrant woman struggling against old world traditions. Zouina leaves her homeland with her three children to join her husband in France, where he’s been living for the past ten years.
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Johanna D’Arc of Mongolia (1989) Ulrike Ottinger, Badema, Lydia Billiet, Christoph Eichhorn, Comedy, Drama
A group of cosmopolitan women passengers aboard the Trans-Siberian/Mongolian Railway are taken prisoner by Ulan Iga, a warrior princess.
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Les quatre cents coups / The 400 Blows (1959) François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy, Guy Decomble, Crime, Drama
Seemingly in constant trouble at school, 14 year-old Antoine Doinel returns at the end of every day to a drab and unhappy home life. His parents have little money and he sleeps on a couch that’s been pushed into the kitchen. He knows his mother is having an affair and his parents bicker constantly. Read More »