Young Florentines take refuge from the black plague and engage in bawdy adventures and lusty exchanges. Read More »
Tag Archives: France
Elle s’appelait Sarah / Sarah’s Key (2010) Gilles Paquet-Brenner, Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Drama, War
One of the darkest moments in French history occurred in 1942 Paris when French officials rounded up over 10,000 Jews and placed them in local camps. Read More »
Huis-clos / No Exit (1954) Jacqueline Audry, Arletty, Frank Villard, Gaby Sylvia, Drama
Jacqueline Audry usually approached her text with great reverence, but here she was revisionist to the point of destruction. Read More »
The Infamous House of Madame X / Le bordel, 1ère époque; 1900 (1974) José Bénazéraf, Malvina Penne, Marie Saint Clair, Jacques Point, Drama, Comedy, Erotic
Various stories intertwine within the walls of a popular Parisian brothel on the eve of the First World War. Read More »
En ville / Iris in Bloom (2011) Valérie Mréjen, Bertrand Schefer, Lola Créton, Stanislas Merhar, Adèle Haenel, Drama
Iris is 16 and finishing her teenage years in a small provincial town when she meets Jean, a 40 year old photographer from Paris. Read More »
Nannerl, la soeur de Mozart / Mozart’s Sister (2010) René Féret, Marie Féret, Marc Barbé, Delphine Chuillot, Biography, Drama, Music
Beginning in 1763, the film follows the Mozart family’s exhausting life on the road, traveling by coach from one royal court to the next Read More »
Hannah Arendt (2012) Margarethe von Trotta, Barbara Sukowa, Axel Milberg, Janet McTeer, Biography, Drama
In 1961, the noted German-American philosopher, Hannah Arendt, gets to report on the trial of the notorious Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann. Read More »
Bal / Honey (2010) Semih Kaplanoglu, Bora Altas, Erdal Besikçioglu, Tülin Özen, Drama
The young boy Yusuf’s best friend is his father, who supports his family’s modest life with the honey he collects from tall trees in the forests of the remote Turkish countryside. Read More »
Flammen & Citronen / Flame And Citron (2008) Ole Christian Madsen, Thure Lindhardt, Mads Mikkelsen, Stine Stengade, Drama, History, Thriller
During Nazi occupation, red-headed Bent Faurschou-Hviid (“Flame”) and Jørgen Haagen Schmith (“Citron”), assassins in the Danish resistance, take orders from Winther, who’s in direct contact with Allied leaders. Read More »
Jacquot de Nantes (1991) Agnès Varda, Philippe Maron, Edouard Joubeaud, Laurent Monnier, Biography, Drama
Jacquot Demy is a little boy at the end of the thirties. His father owns a garage and his mother is a hairdresser. Read More »