While filming the Olympics, a filmmaker encounters a Japanese girl. Manchurian born and French educated, she’s an intriguing anomaly. Read More »
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Statues Also Die (1953) Ghislain Cloquet, Chris Marker, Jean Négroni, François Mitterrand, Pope Pius XII
Documentary about the disintegration and desecration of black African art by white Europeans Read More »
The Last Mistress (2007) Catherine Breillat, Asia Argento, Fu’ad Aït Aattou, Roxane Mesquida
At 30, boyish penniless aristocrat Ryno de Marigny has separated from Villini, a passionate Spaniard and his mistress of 10 years. Read More »
The Flower of Evil (2003) Claude Chabrol, Nathalie Baye, Benoît Magimel, Suzanne Flon
Anne runs for re-election to the town council, shepherded by Matthieu, her fellow candidate and campaign manager. Read More »
For a Cops Hide (1981) Alain Delon, Mireille Darc, Anne Parillaud
In Paris, the ex-cop Choucas is a private detective that works with a mysterious partner, Tarpon, and the secretary Charlotte. Read More »
Daens (1992) Stijn Coninx, Jan Decleir, Gérard Desarthe, Antje de Boeck
In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible Read More »
Beauties of the Night (1952) René Clair, Gérard Philipe, Martine Carol, Gina Lollobrigida
Young Claude, teacher by day, is a struggling composer by night. Alas, everyone around him seems to prefer noise to music. Read More »
Houseboat (1958) Melville Shavelson, Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer
Tom Winters, a widower, is trying to understand and raise three precocious children alone. Read More »
The Bloodiest (2005) Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Adèle Ado, Dorylia Calmel, Emile Abossolo M’bo
A futuristic film set in a dystopian Cameroonian city vaguely reminiscent of the dystopian Los Angeles in Ridley Scott’s classic BladeRunner Read More »
Nightcap (2000) Claude Chabrol, Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Anna Mouglalis
In Lausanne, the aspirant pianist Jeanne Pollet has lunch with her mother Louise Pollet, her boyfriend Axel and his mother. Read More »