This excoriating satire of the fashion industry follows 20-year-old Brooklyn-born fashion model Polly Maggoo in Paris Read More »
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Nationale 7 (2000) Jean-Pierre Sinapi, Nadia Kaci, Olivier Gourmet, Lionel Abelanski
Foul-tempered René Amistadi suffers from muscular dystrophy. He wants to make love to a woman while there’s still time. Read More »
News from Home (1977) Chantal Akerman
Chantal Akerman, the Belgian filmmaker, lives in New York. Read More »
In Their Sleep AKA Dans ton sommeil (2010) Caroline du Potet, Éric du Potet, Anne Parillaud, Arthur Dupont, Thierry Frémont
Sarah and her husband have moved to a house in the country Read More »
Girl’s Apartment / L’appartement des filles (1963) Michel Deville, Mylène Demongeot, Sylva Koscina, Renate Ewert
A charming gold smuggler tries to recruit equally charming air hostesses to transport gold bars to Bombay. Read More »
The Nada Gang AKA Nada (1974) Claude Chabrol, Fabio Testi, Maurice Garrel, Lou Castel
A group of anarchist leftist called “Nada” and led by the terrorist Buenaventura Diaz Read More »
News Items AKA Faits divers (1983) Raymond Depardon
This documentary follows the daily life of a section of the police station of the fifth “arrondissement” (district) of Paris. Read More »
Frantz (2016) François Ozon, Pierre Niney, Paula Beer, Ernst Stötzner
In 1919 Quedlinburg, Germany, a young woman named Anna is still mourning the death of her fiance Read More »
Last Year at Marienbad AKA L’année dernière à Marienbad (1961) Alain Resnais, Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff
At a weekend gathering, a man tries to convince a woman that they had met there and spent some time together the previous year. Read More »
Elle (2016) Paul Verhoeven, Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny
Michèle seems indestructible. Head of a successful video game company Read More »