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Tag Archives: France
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 »
Journey to the Lost City (1960) Fritz Lang
An architect travels to the remote city of Eschnapur to oversee some work being done at the bequest of the local Maharajah. Read More »
Room of Death (2007) Alfred Lot, Mélanie Laurent
Two unemployed computer technicians discover 2 million euros next to a dead body in a field of windmills. Read More »