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  • Philippe de Broca – Chère Louise AKA Dear Louise (1972)

    Philippe de Broca1971-1980DramaFrance

    Quote:
    A young woman, Louise, is a lecturer in a provincial town where she meets an Italian immigrant. The film retraces their relationship.Read More »

  • José Bénazéraf – Perverse Isabelle AKA Bedside Manor (1985)

    1981-1990ComedyEroticaFranceJosé Bénazéraf

    A pretty young nurse is hired to take care of a bedridden young man at a private mansion. She soon discovers that the estate is a hotbed of sexual depravity nd excesses, and that she and the other nurses are expected to provide the kind of services that they didn’t learn in nursing school.Read More »

  • José Bénazeraf – Du Foutre Plein Le Cul AKA Breaking And Entering(1984)

    1981-1990EroticaExploitationFranceJosé Bénazéraf

    In the South of France a naughty band of female cat burglars decides to rob a ritzy villa for kicks. Breaking and Entering, the girls discover a treasure trove of love toys and lingerie that proves to be a real party pleaser until the long, long arm of the law catches up with them. These gendarmes go for the gusto using their “nightsticks” to probe the girls for information. Then the owners of the villa show up and are mistaken as thieves but it really doesn’t matter. They seem to enjoy “the intrusion” even more then the girls do!Read More »

  • Benoît Jacquot – Jacques Lacan: la psychanalyse 1 (1974)

    1971-1980Benoît JacquotDocumentaryFrancePhilosophy on ScreenTV

    Quote:
    In 1973 Benoit Jacquot shot two films on Jacques Lacan, Psychanalyse I and II, broadcast on French television the same year. Les Éditions du Seuil published the text the following year; the English version appeared in 1990 under the imprint of W.W. Norton.Read More »

  • Werner Schroeter – Malina (1991)

    1991-2000ArthouseDramaFranceWerner Schroeter

    Quote:
    Based on an introspective feminist book by Ingeborg Bachmann which I haven’t read but is described as a difficult fragmented work that exposes emotional reactions and stream-of-consciousness meditations on her identity vs. three men in her life, two lovers who try to control her or take over her identity, her obsessive love, and her scary father. The author, Bachmann, died in hospital after a fire in her house. Schroeter takes these real-life and written elements and applies his own treatment to the whole mess, showing scattered fragments of her life mixed with many and endless emotional breakdowns, fire and mirrors used as artsy symbols, a writer’s block, existential explorations on identity, some references to her interests in Wittgenstein, and various surreal imagery involving violinists, her father in a Nazi uniform, and lots of flames, all together in one jumbled emotional mess, like the inside of a schizophrenic woman’s mind. Unrewarding arthouse piece.Read More »

  • José Bénazéraf – Révolution [French Cut] (1985)

    1981-1990EroticaExploitationFranceJosé Bénazéraf

    A coup d’etat turns into a menage a trois when the amorous ambassador from the fictitious South American country of Youraway and his more-than-willing wife [Olinka Hardiman ] pay a state visit to El Presidente at his palace. This sexual revolution is out of control as El Presidente’s wife tries a little foreign intervention on the ambassador by adding raunchy new dimensions to the “Good Neighbour Policy”. Not to be outdone, El Presidente takes Olinka on a tour of the palace and they soon indulge in a little target practice that proves to be the “Bang Heard Around The World”. This is one erotic uprising you will not soon forget.Read More »

  • Mélanie Laurent – Respire (2014)

    Mélanie Laurent2011-2020DramaFrance

    Plot:
    It is tale of two teenage girls who develop an intense and dangerous friendship. Charlie is a 17-year-old girl tortured by doubt, disillusionment and solitude. When the beautiful and self-confident Sarah arrives and the two become inseparable, Charlie is thrilled to feel alive, fulfilled and invincible in their intense friendship. But as Sarah tires of Charlie and begins to look elsewhere for a new friend, their friendship takes an ominous turn.Read More »

  • Marc Allégret – Julietta (1953)

    1951-1960ComedyFranceMarc Allégret

    Julietta Valendor is a romantic and dreamy girl who accepts with difficulty the fifth-year-old fiancé chosen by her mother: the very worldly prince of Alpen. One day she is given the opportunity to meet the man of her dreams in the person of lawyer André Landrecourt.Read More »

  • Roy Stuart – Glimpse Gold Vol.1 (2019)

    2011-2020ArthouseEroticaFranceRoy Stuart

    The ultimate Roy Stuart anthology !

    Be kind, rewind.
    Vintage lovers rejoice, the good old days are back! Studio C digs up the past with a new Roy Stuart movie collection. Return to where it all started with Glimpse Gold, an all new feature with never seen before footage! Glimpse Gold Volume 1 focuses on the 90’s with more than 2 hours of torrid adventures, castings and behind the scenes exclusive footage.Read More »

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