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Long Live Life (1984) Claude Lelouch, Charlotte Rampling, Michel Piccoli, Jean-Louis Trintignant

The movie starts with an interview with director Claude Lelouch. He pleads viewers not to disclose Read More »
Tartarin of Tarascon (1934) Raymond Bernard, Raimu, Fernand Charpin, Sinoël

Tartarin is the local hero in the small provincial town of Tarascon. He shows off about imaginary adventures in Africa Read More »
La Main du Diable / Carnival of Sinners (1943) Maurice Tourneur, Pierre Fresnay, Josseline Gaël, Noël Roquevert, Fantasy, Horror

A man arrives at an isolated mountain inn clutching a small box. The man is panic-struck when Read More »
Elles (1997) Luís Galvão Teles, Miou-Miou, Carmen Maura, Marthe Keller

Five women, all near the wrong side of forty, face life’s ups and downs together with laughter, tears, and sometimes irony. Read More »
Retour à Kotelnitch (2003) Emmanuel Carrère

Kotelnitch is a small town 800 km east of Moscow. The author went on the trail of a Hungarian prisoner Read More »
Bulldozer (1974) Pierre Harel, Yvan Ducharme, Pauline Julien, Raymond Lévesque

A film of losers, Abitibian dumps, underground and marginality against the musical background of Offenbach Read More »
Les Témoins / The Witnesses (2007) André Téchiné, Michel Blanc, Emmanuelle Béart, Sami Bouajila

June 1984 to June 1985, from happy days to war to summer’s return. A middle-aged doctor in Paris, Adrien Read More »
Ça commence aujourd’hui (1999) Bertrand Tavernier, Philippe Torreton, Maria Pitarresi, Nadia Kaci

In a mining town which has been blighted by economic downturns, an elementary school headmaster struggles Read More »
The Wild Goose Chase (1975) Claude Zidi, Pierre Richard, Jane Birkin, Michel Aumont

The whole intrigue is centered around carte-blanche documents kept in a vault. Read More »