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Tag Archives: french
Deux hommes dans Manhattan / Two Men in Manhattan (1959) Jean-Pierre Melville, Pierre Grasset, Christiane Eudes, Ginger Hall

A French UN delegate has disappeared into thin air, sending reporter Moreau (Jean-Pierre Melville) Read More »
The Taste of Violence / Le goût de la violence (1961) Robert Hossein, Giovanna Ralli, Mario Adorf

This European “western” by Robert Hossein (scripter, director, and lead) is set in an unnamed Latin American country suffering under a dictator. Read More »
Liar’s Moon (1982) David Fisher, Matt Dillon, Cindy Fisher, Hoyt Axton

Against the wishes of both families, a poor boy and a wealthy banker’s daughter elope Read More »
La femme de Gilles / Gilles’ Wife (2004) Frédéric Fonteyne, Emmanuelle Devos, Clovis Cornillac, Laura Smet

Gilles’ wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him Read More »
The Xango from Baker Street / O Xangô de Baker Street (2001) Miguel Faria Jr., Joaquim de Almeida, Anthony O’Donnell, Maria de Medeiros

Rio de Janeiro, 1886. Actress Sarah Bernhardt performs at the city’s Municipal Theater Read More »
The Girl with the Golden Eyes (1961) Jean-Gabriel Albicocco, Marie Laforêt, Paul Guers, Françoise Prévost

A skirt-chasing fashion photographer meets a charming young woman who captures his interest immediately. Read More »
Milou en mai / May Fools (1990) Louis Malle, Miou-Miou, Michel Piccoli, Michel Duchaussoy

Like Vanya, in Malle’s last film, Milou never left the family estate. His mother dies during the May 1968 student uprising in Paris. Read More »
Red (1970) Gilles Carle, Daniel Pilon, Geneviève Robert, Gratien Gélinas

A half-cast used cars salesman wants anything from the white society and is ready to do anything to get it. Read More »
Moolaadé (2004) Ousmane Sembene, Fatoumata Coulibaly, Maimouna Hélène Diarra, Salimata Traoré

When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart. Read More »