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Tag Archives: french
Lady Paname (1950) Henri Jeanson, Louis Jouvet, Suzy Delair, Henri Guisol
Paris, 1925. A young woman, Caprice, has great ambitions of becoming a famous music hall singer Read More »
Declaration of War (2011) Valérie Donzelli, Jérémie Elkaïm, César Desseix
Roméo and Juliette are two young actors. They fall in love at first sight, move in together and make a baby. Read More »
There Is No Sexual Rapport (2011) Raphaël Siboni, Hervé P. Gustave, Cindy Dollar, Michael Cerrito
An amusing and poignant examination of one man’s career as a director-performer of pornography. Read More »
Queen of Montreuil (2012) Sólveig Anspach, Florence Loiret Caille, Didda Jónsdóttir, Úlfur Ægisson
It’s early summer and Agathe is back in France, at home in Montreuil. Read More »
Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman (1973) Roger Vadim, Brigitte Bardot, Robert Hossein, Mathieu Carrière
Jeanne lives in Paris and believes she is the reincarnation of Don Juan. She visits a priest and tells him she has killed a man. Read More »
Tower of Nesle (1955) Abel Gance, Pierre Brasseur, Silvana Pampanini, Paul Guers
France, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy Read More »
Who Knows? (2001) Jacques Rivette, Jeanne Balibar, Sergio Castellitto, Marianne Basler
The theatre world is a familiar setting for the films of Rivette. In Va savoir, the characters, all quick-witted Read More »
My Crimes After Mein Kampf (1940) Alexandre Ryder, Roger Karl, Line Noro, Pierre Labry
The film shows the seizure of power by the Nazis and Hitler wants a trial, at a time when France has just declared war on Germany (Sept. 3, 1939). Read More »
The Escort (1999) Michel Blanc, Daniel Auteuil, Stuart Townsend, Liza Walker
Tom is a male escort boy for ladies, a gigolo. His friend Pierre doesn’t find this out until later Read More »