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Tag Archives: France
The Green Mare / La jument verte (1959) Claude Autant-Lara, Bourvil, Francis Blanche, Sandra Milo
The story is set during the latter half of the 19th century and follows two feuding peasant families. Read More »
White Lies / …Comme elle respire (1998) Pierre Salvadori, Marie Trintignant, Guillaume Depardieu, Jean-François Stévenin
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 »
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 (1968) L’étrangère
François, a journalist, is approached on the train home by a pretty blonde. Read More »
Thirteen Days of Love (1935) Escale
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 »