France

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Legendary 93-year old director Lana reflects on her mother Nutsa, Georgia’s trailblazing first female filmmaker, whose work spotlighted humanity, feminism, love, and anti-violence in dark times.Read More »

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The evolution of life, from the drop of water where hundreds of microscopic animals live to that of the great primates. Essential behaviors (feeding and reproducing) are innate, automatic, and never show any variation. The struggle for life and interspecies aggressiveness are found in all animals, with significant differences. The ancestors of the great primates learned to anticipate the outcome of their actions and to assess the risks they needed to take in order to survive…Read More »

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French director Francois Truffaut’s newest film is a tribute to American film noir. It is based on a 1962 novel by Charles Williams that blends mystery and comedy genres. Jean-Louis Trintignant plays Julien, a real estate agent who finds himself under suspicion for the murder of a friend. When his wife is killed shortly afterwards, Julien goes into hiding.
Barbara (Fanny Ardant), his feisty secretary who secretly loves him despite his penchant for beautiful blondes, volunteers to help clear his name. Donning a trench coat appropriate for the challenge at hand, she sallies forth on her own investigation. She soon discovers confusing clues and meets sinister figures, including a pimp, a movie-house cashier, a priest, and a smooth talking lawyer.Read More »

An innkeeper and his wife have a second career involving the robbery and murder of stagecoach travellers staying at their isolated inn. And it’s up to a monk to stop the mayhem…Read More »

A young mother, alone with her daughter, confides in a friend who happens to be the director herself. Chantal Akerman, although she sympathizes with the mother, does not say a word.Read More »

Accompanied by a film crew, a paleobotanist searches for native plants in Normandy to recreate an ancient garden, sharing insights on their etymology and scientific properties.Read More »

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Colonel Chabert is mistaken for dead during the Napoleonic war with Russia. When he returns to Paris some years later, he finds that his wife, Anne, has married the Count Ferraud, and is using Chabert’s wealth to finance Ferraud’s social advancement. When his wife refuses to recognise him, Chabert approaches a lawyer, Derville, to reinstate his honour and his wealth. Unfortunately, Anne Ferraud realises that she risks losing everything if she acknowledges Chabert as her husband, and intends to fight her former husband every inch of the way…Read More »

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Making a rare visit to Canada, Claude Chabrol cowrote and directed the low-pressure psychological melodrama Blood Relatives (Les Liens de sang). Donald Sutherland and Donald Pleasence head the cast in this story of the aftermath of a brutal murder. The victim, a 17-year-old girl, was apparently raped before she died, leading Carella (Sutherland) to believe that she was killed by a sex maniac. Pedophile Doniac (Pleasence) tops the suspect list, but don’t be too sure. The truth is much “closer to home” than anyone realizes at first. Lisa Langlois, who made something of a career of Canadian scare flicks, makes her screen debut in Blood Relatives; also appearing, is Chabrol’s wife Stephane Audran. Blood Relatives was based on a novel by Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter), of 87th Precinct fame; the film was released in the US in 1981, three years after its completion.Synopsis:

Making a rare visit to Canada, Claude Chabrol cowrote and directed the low-pressure psychological melodrama Blood Relatives (Les Liens de sang). Donald Sutherland and Donald Pleasence head the cast in this story of the aftermath of a brutal murder. The victim, a 17-year-old girl, was apparently raped before she died, leading Carella (Sutherland) to believe that she was killed by a sex maniac. Pedophile Doniac (Pleasence) tops the suspect list, but don’t be too sure. The truth is much “closer to home” than anyone realizes at first. Lisa Langlois, who made something of a career of Canadian scare flicks, makes her screen debut in Blood Relatives; also appearing, is Chabrol’s wife Stephane Audran. Blood Relatives was based on a novel by Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter), of 87th Precinct fame; the film was released in the US in 1981, three years after its completion.Read More »

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Pianist Catherine Miller, married and mother of a little boy, leads a hectic and exhausting life. At the end of the concert, she meets television journalist Gilles Bollème with whom she spends a pleasant late evening.

Later that night, she receives a phone call asking her to replace one of her colleagues at the last minute and perform Ravel’s third concerto. Catherine revolts and thinks it is a joke, since Ravel has only written two concertos. But everyone tells her that she is wrong and she feels she is slipping gradually into madness.

In the morning, Catherine realises that it was all just a dream and she meets Gilles who has to take her to the airport.

Back in his television office, Gilles learns that the plane Catherine was in has just exploded on takeoff.Read More »