Life’s a rotten business, says Jean, a deserter who arrives at night in Le Havre, looking to leave the country. Read More »
Tag Archives: french
Regarde les hommes tomber / See How They Fall (1994) Jacques Audiard, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Yanne, Mathieu Kassovitz
Simon is a sales representative about fifty. When Mickey, his cop friend, is being shot, he leaves everything to find the murderers. Read More »
Le bonheur / Happiness (1965) Agnès Varda, Jean-Claude Drouot, Claire Drouot, Olivier Drouot, Drama, Romance
Francois is a young carpenter married with Therese. They have two little children. All goes well, life is beautiful, the sun shines and the birds sing. Read More »
The Island at the Top of the World (1974) Robert Stevenson, David Hartman, Donald Sinden, Jacques Marin, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A Victorian gentleman hopes to find his long-lost son, who vanished whilst searching for a mysterious Viking community in a volcanic valley somewhere in uncharted Arctic regions. Read More »
Gigi (1949) Jacqueline Audry, Gaby Morlay, Jean Tissier, Yvonne de Bray, Comedy, Romance
Gilberte is a sixteen year old girl raised by her aunt and grandmother to be a demimondaine. Read More »
Chéri (1950) Pierre Billon, Jean Desailly
Fred Peloux nicknamed Chéri, the handsome son of Charlotte Peloux, a former demimondaine, lives in the small circle of his mother’s friends, all high class prostitutes past their best. Read More »
Les ripoux / My New Partner (1984) Claude Zidi, Philippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte, Régine, Comedy, Crime
Rene is a “ripou”, a rotten cop who makes ends meet by accepting bribes, presents and free drinks from the people he should be putting in jail. Read More »
Secret défense / Secret Defense (1998) Jacques Rivette, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Grégoire Colin, Crime, Drama
A young biologist (Sylvie) is thrown into confusion when her brother (Paul) tries to persuade her that their father, who fell off a train five years ago Read More »
Toute une nuit / A whole night (1982) Chantal Akerman, Aurore Clément, Tchéky Karyo, Angelo Abazoglou, Drama
Following over two dozen different people in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, Akerman examines acception and rejection in the realm of romance. Read More »
Afriques: Comment ça va avec la douleur? / Africa, How Are You with Pain? (1996) Raymond Depardon, Documentary
Only a microphone on his camera, Raymond Depardon has surveyed Africa from July 1993 to February 1996. Read More »