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Tag Archives: french
Isabelle Huppert: A Gypsy Life AKA Isabelle Huppert, une vie pour jouer (2001) Serge Toubiana, Isabelle Huppert

Serge Toubiana followed Isabelle Huppert and her lifestyle for one year. Read More »
Daguerrotype (2016) Le secret de la chambre noire

When an assistant to a daguerreotypy photographer falls in love Read More »
In Praise of Love AKA Éloge de l’amour (2001) Jean-Luc Godard, Bruno Putzulu, Cécile Camp, Jean Davy

In part one there is talk of a project on the subject of love, with the example of three couples Read More »
Time of the Hunt AKA Le temps d’une chasse (1972) Francis Mankiewicz, Guy L’Ecuyer, Marcel Sabourin, Pierre Dufresne

Willy, Richard, and Lionel, three blue-collar friends from Montreal East, leave the city and travel to the countryside for a weekend of hunting. Read More »
Bluebeard AKA Landru (1963) Claude Chabrol, Michèle Morgan, Danielle Darrieux, Hildegard Knef

France, WWI. Landru, the father of four children, contacts Parisian women through newspaper ads, seduces and eventually kills them. Read More »
Dreams of Dust AKA Rêves de poussière (2006) Laurent Salgues, Makena Diop, Adama Ouédraogo, Rasmané Ouédraogo

A Nigerian peasant comes looking for work in Essakane, a dusty gold mine in Northeast Burkina Faso, where he hopes to forget the past that haunts him. Read More »
The Dinner Game AKA Le dîner de cons (1998) Francis Veber, Thierry Lhermitte, Jacques Villeret, Francis Huster, Daniel Prévost

To amuse themselves at a weekly dinner, a few well-heeled folk each bring a dimwit along who is to talk about his pastime. Read More »
El cantor (2005) Joseph Morder, Lou Castel, Luis Rego, Françoise Michaud

William’s great surprise, his cousin Clovis, whom he did not see again since around thirty years, arrives from New York to visit him. Read More »
A Girl Is a Gun AKA Une aventure de Billy le Kid (1971) Luc Moullet, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Rachel Kesterber, Jean Valmont

Despite most Cahiers du cinéma critics admired many western authors, when they themselves became filmmakers few dared to overtly revisit that genre. Read More »