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Tag Archives: french
Black Girl (1966) Ousmane Sembene, Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek, Robert Fontaine, Drama

A Senegalese woman is eager to find a better life abroad. She takes a job as a governess for a French family Read More »
Xala (1975) Ousmane Sembene, Thierno Leye, Myriam Niang, Seune Samb, Comedy

It is the dawn of Senegal’s independence from France, but as the citizens celebrate in the streets we soon become aware that only the faces have changed. Read More »
A Gentle Woman (1969) Robert Bresson, Dominique Sanda, Guy Frangin, Jeanne Lobre, Drama, Romance

A young woman kills herself, leaving no explanation to her grief-stricken pawnbroker husband. Read More »
Les Enfants Terribles (1950) Jean-Pierre Melville, Nicole Stéphane, Edouard Dermithe, Renée Cosima, Drama

In a snowball fight between schoolboys the handsome Dargelos hits the chest of Paul, who drops unconscious to the ground. Read More »
Entre Nous (1983) Diane Kurys, Miou-Miou, Isabelle Huppert, Guy Marchand, Biography, Drama, War

In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Read More »
The Wild Reeds (1994) André Téchiné, Élodie Bouchez, Gaël Morel, Stéphane Rideau, Drama

In a village in the Southwest of France, 1962. Maite and Francois are 18 years old. Read More »
Brief Crossing (2001) Catherine Breillat, Sarah Pratt, Gilles Guillain, Marc Filipi, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Desire for a subject that functions like a brief fling with no future as such, yet embellished by that very fact. Read More »
Rum Runners (1971) Robert Enrico, Lino Ventura, Brigitte Bardot, Bill Travers, Adventure, Comedy

In the prohibition years, the ‘rumrunners’ travel through the Caribbean Sea with the forbidden liquor barely escaping the ship patrols. Read More »
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 »