The filmic composition creates a fictive space that conveys the multiple perspectives generated by Fabre’s imaginings. Read More »
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Le golem / The Golem (1936) Julien Duvivier, Harry Baur, Roger Karl, Charles Dorat, Fantasy, Horror
The Golem, a giant creature created out of clay by a rabbi, comes to life in a time of trouble to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
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N.O.I.R. (2015) Yves Christian Fournier, Salim Kechiouche, Julie Djiezion, Jade-Mariuka Robitaille, Crime, Drama, Romance
Kadhafi, Algerian rapper 26 years, ex-member of a street gang and the father of a young boy out of prison and wants to settle down. Will it happen? Read More »
Elle s’appelait Sarah / Sarah’s Key (2010) Gilles Paquet-Brenner, Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Drama, War
One of the darkest moments in French history occurred in 1942 Paris when French officials rounded up over 10,000 Jews and placed them in local camps. Read More »
Huis-clos / No Exit (1954) Jacqueline Audry, Arletty, Frank Villard, Gaby Sylvia, Drama
Jacqueline Audry usually approached her text with great reverence, but here she was revisionist to the point of destruction. Read More »
The Infamous House of Madame X / Le bordel, 1ère époque; 1900 (1974) José Bénazéraf, Malvina Penne, Marie Saint Clair, Jacques Point, Drama, Comedy, Erotic
Various stories intertwine within the walls of a popular Parisian brothel on the eve of the First World War. Read More »
En ville / Iris in Bloom (2011) Valérie Mréjen, Bertrand Schefer, Lola Créton, Stanislas Merhar, Adèle Haenel, Drama
Iris is 16 and finishing her teenage years in a small provincial town when she meets Jean, a 40 year old photographer from Paris. Read More »
Nannerl, la soeur de Mozart / Mozart’s Sister (2010) René Féret, Marie Féret, Marc Barbé, Delphine Chuillot, Biography, Drama, Music
Beginning in 1763, the film follows the Mozart family’s exhausting life on the road, traveling by coach from one royal court to the next Read More »
Hannah Arendt (2012) Margarethe von Trotta, Barbara Sukowa, Axel Milberg, Janet McTeer, Biography, Drama
In 1961, the noted German-American philosopher, Hannah Arendt, gets to report on the trial of the notorious Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann. Read More »
Trois temps après la mort d’Anna / Mourning for Anna (2010) Catherine Martin, Paule Baillargeon, Denis Bernard, Denise Gagnon, Drama
How to go on living afterwards? It is the end of winter. A young violinist is murdered in her apartment by a stranger. Read More »