At the ripe old age of 7, Lina’s started wondering about her well-loved but firmly separated parents. Read More »
Tag Archives: french
Faces of Love AKA Repérages (1977) Michel Soutter, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Delphine Seyrig, Lea Massari
The director Victor decides to bring Chekhov’s play ‘The Three Sisters’ to the screen. Read More »
Male of the Century AKA Le mâle du siècle (1975) Claude Berri, Juliet Berto, Yves Afonso
A woman is taken hostage during the attack on a bank. Read More »
Qu’est-ce qu’on attend pour être heureux! (1982) Coline Serreau, Annick Alane, Bernard Alane, Michel Berto
In this film that sends up the foibles of filmmaking, a standard crew of actors Read More »
The Big Night AKA Le grand soir (1976) Francis Reusser, Niels Arestrup, Jacqueline Parent, Arnold Walter
In Lausanne, Léon is involved by accident with a small Leninist group Read More »
The Child of Paris AKA L’enfant de Paris (1913) Léonce Perret, Louis Leubas, Maurice Lagrenée
A series of misfortunes befalls young Marie-Laure. Her army captain father goes missing in action Read More »
The Negro AKA Le nèg’ (2002) Robert Morin, Iannicko N’Doua-Légaré, Robin Aubert, Emmanuel Bilodeau
In the middle of the night, in the Quebec countryside, all hell breaks loose Read More »
The Hour of Truth AKA L’heure de la vérité (1965) Henri Calef, Karlheinz Böhm, Brett Halsey, Corinne Marchand
A German Jewish engineer is the only survivor of a concentration Read More »
The Satin Slipper AKA Le soulier de satin (1985) Manoel de Oliveira, Luís Miguel Cintra, Patricia Barzyk, Anne Consigny
During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman Read More »
Jenatsch (1987) Daniel Schmid, Michel Voïta, Christine Boisson, Vittorio Mezzogiorno
A journalist is assigned to interview an eccentric anthropologist who has exhumed Read More »
World Without Sun AKA Le monde sans soleil (1964) Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Pierre Bidault, Louis Bidegant, Christian Bonnici
Fascinating underwater documentary filmed with hand-held cameras by frogmen Read More »
Don’t Look Back AKA Ne te retourne pas (2009) Marina de Van, Sophie Marceau, Monica Bellucci, Andrea Di Stefano
Jeanne, a writer, married with two children – starts to see unsettling changes in her home. Read More »
Monsieur Fabre (1951) Henri Diamant-Berger, Pierre Fresnay, Elina Labourdette, André Randall
Pierre Fresnay plays the title role of a dedicated man Read More »
The Italian of the Roses AKA L’Italien des Roses (1972) Charles Matton, Richard Bohringer, Isabelle Mercanton, Andrée Fleur
A young man, called The Italian of the Roses, is on the roof edge Read More »
Cigalon (1935) Marcel Pagnol, Arnaudy, Henri Poupon, Marguerite Chabert
Cigalon (Alexandre Arnaudy) manages a restaurant in a small town in Provence. Read More »