An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction Read More »
Tag Archives: France
Sin with a Stranger / L’étrangère (1968) Sergio Gobbi, Marie-France Boyer, Pierre Vaneck, Pierre Massimi
François, a journalist, is approached on the train home by a pretty blonde. Read More »
Thirteen Days of Love / Escale (1935) Louis Valray, Colette Darfeuil, Samson Fainsilber, Serge Arola
The decline of Eva, torn by her love for Jean, a naval officer, and her lust for Dario, a sly smuggler. Read More »
Four Daughters / Les filles d’Olfa (2023) Kaouther Ben Hania, Olfa Hamrouni, Eya Chikhaoui, Tayssir Chikhaoui
Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. Read More »
The Absence / L’absence (1992) Peter Handke, Bruno Ganz, Jeanne Moreau, Alex Descas
Four nameless people — the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler Read More »
Carrington (1995) Christopher Hampton, Emma Thompson, Jonathan Pryce, Steven Waddington
The story of This relationship between painter Dora Carrington and Writer Lytton Strachey Read More »
My Baby Is Black! / Les lâches vivent d’espoir (1961) Claude Bernard-Aubert, Gordon Heath, Françoise Giret, Aram Stephan
Daniel and Françoise are an interracial couple. When Daniel is introduced to Françoise’s Read More »
Alien Crystal Palace (2018) Arielle Dombasle, Nicolas Ker, Michel Fau
A scientist finds the secret that predispose to the formation of the ideal couple. Read More »
Vanishing Exercises / Exercices de disparition (2011) Claudio Pazienza, Jacques Sojcher
Does mourning have a use-by date… like yogurts? Read More »
Man to Man (2005) Régis Wargnier, Joseph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Iain Glen
1870. Dr. Jamie Dodd (Joseph Fiennes) is elated. He has finally succeeded in capturing not one, but two pygmies. Read More »