Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training Read More »
Tag Archives: France
Youth Without Youth (2007) Francis Ford Coppola, Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz
1938, Romania: at 70, a professor of language and philosophy, Dominic Matei, contemplates suicide: the love of his life is dead Read More »
Dangerous Pleasures / Una voglia da morire (1965) Duccio Tessari, Raf Vallone, Annie Girardot, Alberto Lionello
Two women on vacation decide to see who the better seductress is. Read More »
The Hussy / La drôlesse (1979) Jacques Doillon, Claude Hébert, Madeleine Desdevises, Paulette Lahaye
Twenty-something François collects boxes and bottles and resells them to shopkeepers. Read More »
The Shoe / Kurpe (1998) Laila Pakalnina, Ivars Brakovskis, Igors Buraks, Viktors Cestnovs
The Shoe is set in a seaside Latvian town in the 1950s and deals with absurd laws of life in a border state. Read More »
A Few Days with Me / Quelques jours avec moi (1988) Claude Sautet, Daniel Auteuil, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Pierre Marielle
After being discharged from a mental institution, a man is tasked by his mother to revive a struggling supermarket in Limoges. Read More »
What Price Murder? / Une manche et la belle (1957) Henri Verneuil, Henri Vidal, Mylène Demongeot, Isa Miranda
Betty Farnwell, a rich widow living in Nice, decides to marry Philippe Read More »
Quadrille (1997) Valérie Lemercier, André Dussollier, Sandrine Kiberlain
What happens when two women fall in love with the same two men Read More »
Port Arthur (1936) Nicolas Farkas
Espionage, war and romance in the Far East in 1904: Russian naval officer Boris Ranewsky Read More »
Spring Blossom / Seize printemps (2020) Suzanne Lindon, Arnaud Valois, Frédéric Pierrot
Suzanne is sixteen. She is bored with people her own age. Read More »