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Tag Archives: France
Le soupirant / The Suitor (1962) France Arnel, Pierre Étaix, Laurence Lignières

Pierre is a shy man whose sole focus in life is studying astrology in solitude Read More »
More (1969) Barbet Schroeder, Mimsy Farmer, Klaus Grünberg, Heinz Engelmann

In the late 1960s, after graduating in Mathematics, the German Stefan Brückner Read More »
La vallée / The Valley (1972) Barbet Schroeder

Viviane, a French Consul’s wife, is in New Guinea to find exotic feathers for export to Paris. Read More »
Adorable menteuse / Adorable Liar (1962) Michel Deville, Marina Vlady, Macha Méril, Michel Vitold
Without a doubt, lovely Juliette loves to play the game of deception. Indeed, Juliette can’t resist Read More »
The Cat / Le chat (1971) Pierre Granier-Deferre, Jean Gabin, Simone Signoret, Annie Cordy

Courbevoie (France), 1971. Julien Bouin, a former typographist, and his wife Clemence Read More »
The Country Teacher / Venkovský ucitel (2008) Bohdan Sláma, Pavel Liska, Zuzana Bydzovská, Ladislav Sedivý

Petr, youthful, quiet, and sensitive, comes from Prague to teach natural science in a country town. Read More »
The Seventh Juror (1962) Georges Lautner, Bernard Blier, Maurice Biraud, Francis Blanche

In a moment of madness a respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Read More »
Marked Girls / Prisons de femmes (1938) Roger Richebé, Viviane Romance, Renée Saint-Cyr, Marguerite Deval

Juliette, an innocent woman, is wrongly sentenced to prison for attempted murder. Read More »
Nuit docile (1987) Guy Gilles, Patrick Jouané, Claire Nebout, Pascal Kelaf

A man decides one night to leave the woman he loves. He tells him by phone. All night, he calls her. Read More »
