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Tag Archives: France
Rome 11:00 (1952) Giuseppe De Santis, Lucia Bosé
Based on an actual incident, this is the story of five girls (told in a slow beginning) who are among the 200 women Read More »
Bacurau (2019) Juliano Dornelles, Bárbara Colen
After the death of her grandmother, Teresa comes home to her matriarchal village Read More »
The Little Chinese Seamstress (2002) Sijie Dai
Two youths sent for a Maoist “re-education” in the mountains fall in love with the village tailor’s granddaughter. Read More »
My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister (1986)
This parody of the detective-story genre merrily detours into spoofing French foibles as well Read More »
The Lover (1992) Jean-Jacques Annaud, Jane March
It is French Colonial Vietnam in 1929. A young French girl from a family that is having Read More »
Lacombe Lucien (1974) Louis Malle, Pierre Blaise
A small town in the south-west of France, summer of 1944. Having failed to join the resistance Read More »
Ghosts (2005) Christian Petzold, Julia Hummer
Nina, an end-of-teenage orphan with mental problems, starts a new job as a garden Read More »
Rewind & Play (2022) Alain Gomis, Thelonious Monk
The lack of respect with which the Black musician Thelonious Monk was treated in Autumn, 1969. Read More »
Victoire (2004) Stéphanie Murat, Sylvie Testud
Victoire is sweet, sensitive, nice and understanding. Read More »