Jeanne is a young weirdo girl who flies to Paris, and is hired by an old lady called Madeleine as an au pair. Read More »
Tag Archives: France
Gervaise (1956) René Clément, Maria Schell, François Périer, Jany Holt
An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction Read More »
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 »