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  • Jacques Toulemonde Vidal – Anna (2015)

    2011-2020DramaFranceJacques Toulemonde Vidal

    Anna is a young Colombian woman living in Paris, daily struggling with her emotional frailty. She tries to spend more time with her ten-year-old son, Nathan, but Philippe, her former husband, doesn’t trust her anymore and threatens her to take full custody of the child. Having no other choice, she convinces her boyfriend Bruno to help her, and the three of them fly away to Colombia. During this journey, Anna will strive to build a new family, and will face the difficulty of being a mother.Read More »

  • Yann Coquart – Les mondes de Philip K. Dick AKA The Worlds of Philip K. Dick (2016)

    2011-2020DocumentaryFranceYann Coquart

    imdb:
    In this documentary film, viewers learn about the life of Philip K. Dick including his early work as a pulp fiction novelist, his successful career with Hollywood, and his obsession with artificial intelligence. Friends and experts remember the man, his importance in the literary world, and the psychoses that drove his work. Hear excerpts of Dick talking about his own work.Read More »

  • Bertrand Mandico – Notre-Dame des Hormones AKA Our Lady of Hormones (2015)

    2011-2020Bertrand MandicoFranceShort Film

    Two actresses rehearse a play during a week-end in a country house. But one of them digs up a strange thing from earth while walking in the woods. A creature the size of a seal, without any holes nor members. The mass of flesh and skin, covered with hair, breathes loudly. The creature becomes an object of lust for both women. The relationship between the two actresses becomes tense. Both women are desperate to own the thing. This leads to a series of burlesque and violent situations. The two actresses have no idea that they have unearthed Our Lady of Hormones.Read More »

  • Sophie Fillières – Ma vie ma gueule AKA This Life of Mine (2024)

    2021-2030ComedyDramaFranceSophie Fillières

    Plot: Barbie, once an attractive, devoted mother and partner, faces newfound challenges as she turns 55, descending into darkness, violence, and absurdity while grappling with her identity, relationships, and life’s complexities.Read More »

  • Sylvain Chomet – Les triplettes de Belleville AKA The Triplets of Belleville [+Commentary] (2003)

    2001-2010AnimationDramaFranceSylvain Chomet

    Voice From Rogerebert wrote:
    With the voices of Michelle Caucheteux, Jean-Claude Donda, Michel Robin, Monica Viegas, Beatrice Bonifassi and Charles Prevost Linton.
    “The Triplets of Belleville” will have you walking out of the theater with a goofy damn grin on your face, wondering what just happened to you.Read More »

  • Thierry de Peretti – Les Apaches AKA Apaches (2013)

    2011-2020DramaFranceThierry de Peretti

    While thousands of tourists invade the beaches and clubs of the picturesque island of Corsica, five local teenagers spend their days aimlessly hanging out in the streets. One summer night, one invites the others to a vacant luxury villa he knows, where they spend the night swimming, drinking and hooking up. When they leave, they steal several valuables from the home, including two prize rifles. Upon returning from Paris to discover the theft and vandalism, the homeowner turns to a local crime boss for help, quickly igniting a chain reaction of violence and revenge the teens had never anticipated.
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  • Olivier Assayas – L’heure d’été AKA Summer Hours (2008)

    2001-2010DramaFranceOlivier Assayas

    Quote:
    Olivier Assayas is about as protean as today’s great filmmakers come, but the last thing I expected from the mad genius behind the globe-trotting, gorgeously kinetic Boarding Gate is a Chekhovian chamber drama whose mantra could be essentially reduced to: posterity cares. If Boarding Gate convincingly documented a 21st century where human beings can be bought, sold, and shipped from New York to Paris to Hong Kong like shares on the NASDAQ, Summer Hours is the sobering requiem for the safety of objects, for the shape and weight of everything we leave behind when we give in to perpetual flux. Together the two films offer a deeply affecting inquiry into the meaning (and market necessity) of attachment in an age of unfettered globalization.Read More »

  • Maurice Tourneur – Katia (1938)

    1931-1940ClassicsDramaFranceMaurice Tourneur

    Synopsis
    Set during the mid-19th century, the film dwells upon the foredoomed romance between Russian princess Katia (Danielle Darrieux) and the married Czar Alexander II (John Loder). Impressed by her forthrightness and courage, Alexander finds Katia a breath of fresh air when compared with the usual obsequious noblemen who nip at his heels. When their love affair becomes public during a state ball, the ensuing scandal forces Katia to flee to Paris…Read More »

  • Claude d’Anna – L’Ordre et la sécurité du monde aka Last In, First Out aka Last Priority [English dub] (1978)

    1971-1980Claude d'AnnaFranceThriller

    Synopsis:
    In the film, Helen (Laure Dechasnel), a married woman, leaves Paris for Zurich after breaking up with her lover. Near the border, a fellow passenger, mistakenly takes her passport. This sets up a situation which plunges her into the midst of international intrigue, a violent struggle between multinational corporations abetted by national secret agencies. This production features such international stars as Joesph Cotten, Donald Pleasence, Dennis Hopper and Bruno Cremer.Read More »

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