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Tag Archives: France
Désiré (1937) Sacha Guitry, Jacqueline Delubac, Jacques Baumer
Shavian social satire. Odette is an actress who’s now the mistress of a government minister. Read More »
Sacro GRA (2013) Gianfranco Rosi, Francesco De Santis, Gaetano Finocchi, Roberto Giuliani
After the India of Varanasi’s boatmen, the American desert of the dropouts Read More »
Atlantic Wall / Le Mur de l’Atlantique (1970) Marcel Camus, Bourvil, Peter McEnery, Sophie Desmarets
In 1944, Léon Duchemin , a restaurant owner living in Normandy, leads a peaceful life. Read More »
Gigi (1958) Vincente Minnelli, Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan
Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training Read More »
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 »