
After a spending the night with his girlfriend Alice (Jeanne Moreau), trucker Jean (Jean Gabin) encounters a dead body on the road home. Read More »
Tag Archives: France
Women of Devil’s Island / Le prigioniere dell’isola del diavolo (1962) Domenico Paolella, Guy Madison, Michèle Mercier, Federica Ranchi

Female prisoners are shipped to Devil’s Island penal colony. Read More »
Manor House / Malmkrog (2020) Cristi Puiu, Agathe Bosch, Ugo Broussot, Frédéric Schulz-Richard

A landowner, a politician, a countess, a General and his wife gather in a spacious manor Read More »
R.M.N. (2022) Cristian Mungiu, Marin Grigore, Judith State, Macrina Barladeanu

A few days before Christmas, having quit his job in Germany, Matthias returns Read More »
A Girl Missing / Yokogao (2019) Kôji Fukada, Mariko Tsutsui, Mikako Ichikawa, Sôsuke Ikematsu

Ichiko is a care-giver and a nurse. She provide home-care to the Oishos’ elderly woman Read More »
Razzia (2017) Nabil Ayouch, Maryam Touzani, Arieh Worthalter, Amine Ennaji

The streets of Casablanca provide the centerpiece for five separate narratives that all collide into one. Read More »
The Vertical Ray of the Sun / Mùa hè chieu thang dung (2000) Anh Hung Tran, Nu Yên-Khê Tran, Quynh Nhu, Khanh Le

With the brilliant Vietnamese summer as a setting Vertical Ray of the Sun is beautiful from beginning to end. Read More »
Wild Side (2004) Sébastien Lifshitz, Stéphanie Michelini, Yasmine Belmadi, Edouard Nikitine

In Paris, the thirty-two years old travesty Stéphanie a.k.a. Pierre is a streetwalker that lives Read More »
Three Rooms in Manhattan / Trois chambres à Manhattan (1965) Marcel Carné, Annie Girardot, Maurice Ronet, O.E. Hasse

When his wife leaves him, a young French actor, François Combe Read More »
Le Diable et les dix commandements (1962) Julien Duvivier, Michel Simon, Lucien Baroux, Claude Nollier

The ageing warden of a convent is berated by the Mother Superior for his bad language. Read More »