In the prohibition years, the ‘rumrunners’ travel through the Caribbean Sea with the forbidden liquor barely escaping the ship patrols. Read More »
Tag Archives: french
Smoking/No Smoking (1993) Alain Resnais, Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi, Peter Hudson, Comedy
In Yorkshire, Toby Teasdale is the alcoholic director of a school and married with two children with Celia Teasdale that is very unhappy. Read More »
End of the Earth (1929) Jean Epstein, Gibois, Jean-Marie Laot, Malgorn, Drama
On the islet Bannec, off the coast of Brittany, four fishermen have set up camp for three months to harvest seaweed. Read More »
Feelings (2003) Noémie Lvovsky, Nathalie Baye, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Isabelle Carré, Drama, Romance
Two seemingly happily married French couples are forced to contend with a number of issues Read More »
The Chasers (1959) Jean-Pierre Mocky, Jacques Charrier, Charles Aznavour, Dany Robin, Drama
Two young men, one shy and one self-confident, spend a fast-paced night in Paris trying to pick up chicks. They confront every possible difficulty. Read More »
Money (1983) Robert Bresson, Christian Patey, Sylvie Van den Elsen, Michel Briguet, Crime, Drama
A forged 500-franc note is cynically passed from person to person and shop to shop Read More »
The Minister (2011) Pierre Schoeller, Olivier Gourmet, Michel Blanc, Zabou Breitman, Drama
Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. Read More »
Not on the lips (2003) Alain Resnais, Sabine Azéma, Isabelle Nanty, Audrey Tautou, Comedy, Musical, Romance
A musical drawing room farce set in Paris in October, 1925. Gilberte, in middle-age, flirts with men but loves her husband Georges, wishing he were more demonstrative. Read More »
Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to? (1973) Robert Lamoureux, Jean Lefebvre, Pierre Mondy, Aldo Maccione, War, Action, Comedy
1940: During the chaotic running fights of the French army the 7th company disappears – nobody knows they’ve been taken captive. Read More »
Diary of a Chambermaid (1964) Luis Buñuel, Jeanne Moreau, Georges Géret, Michel Piccoli, Crime, Drama
Celestine, the chambermaid, has new occupation around the nation. The Monteils, that works for are a bunch of odd men and women. Read More »