Tango Negro, The African Roots of Tango by Angolan filmmaker Dom Pedro explores the expression Read More »
Tag Archives: french
The Reluctant Spy / L’honorable Stanislas agent secret (1963) Jean-Charles Dudrumet, Jean Marais, Geneviève Page, Maurice Teynac
Stanislas Dubois is the manager of a successful advertising agency. Read More »
Omar Killed Me / Omar m’a tuer (2011) Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Denis Podalydès, Maurice Bénichou
In the summer of 1991 an elderly woman Ghislaine Marchal Read More »
Q / Sexual Desire (2011) Laurent Bouhnik, Déborah Révy, Hélène Zimmer, Gowan Didi
Set in Cheg, France and in a social context deteriorated by a countrywide economic crisis Read More »
Marianne (1997) Benoît Jacquot
A romance of 18th-century Paris: Virginie Ledoyen plays a lovely and graceful orphan Read More »
France société anonyme / French Anonymity Society (1974) Alain Corneau, Michel Bouquet, Allyn Ann McLerie, Roland Dubillard
Year 2222. A former drug dealer who keeps someone alive artificially, tells how, in France in the 70s Read More »
Rue des Prairies (1959) Denys de La Patellière
Life in a one-parent family with a focus on the parent, Henri Neveu (Jean Gabin) Read More »
Jerk (2021) Gisèle Vienne, Jonathan Capdevielle, Catherine Robbe-Grillet, Serge Ramon
From Dennis Cooper’s short novel, based upon true events. Texas, mid-1970’s. Read More »
All the Mornings of the World (1991) Alain Corneau, Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Anne Brochet
It’s late 17th century. The viola da gamba player Monsieur de Sainte Colombe comes home to find that his wife died while he was away. Read More »
The String / Le fil (2009) Mehdi Ben Attia, Claudia Cardinale, Antonin Stahly Viswanadhan, Salim Kechiouche
Malik has a lot on his plate when he returns home to Tunisia after living in France. Read More »