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A countess married to Russia’s envoy to the court of Louis XVI is a gambling addict and doesn’t seem to mind that she loses nightly at the card table.Until a mysterious count entrusts her with a dangerous secret.Read More »

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A propaganda film produced by the French Communist Party (PCF) for the campaign for the May 1936 elections – which brought the Popular Front to power – “La vie est à nous”, by Jean Renoir, was shot by a team of militant filmmakers and technicians.Read More »

When Robert agrees to keep an eye on his friend’s girlfriend, Jocelyne, while he is out of the country, she assures him that he’ll soon come to appreciate her “special talent” to convince any woman to join them for an intimate relationship.Read More »

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“C’est un film simple sur des choses compliquées”, this is how J.L. Godard once described Le mépris : “It’s a simple film about complicated things.”Read More »

Jean-Paul Belmondo delivers a subtly sensual performance in the hot-under-the-collar Léon Morin, Priest (Léon Morin, prêtre), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. The French superstar plays a devoted man of the cloth who is desired by all the women of a small village in Nazi-occupied France. He finds himself most drawn to a sexually frustrated widow—played by Emmanuelle Riva—a religious skeptic whose relationship with her confessor turns into a confrontation with both God and her own repressed desire. A triumph of mood, setting, and innuendo, Léon Morin, Priest is an irreverent pleasure from one of French cinema’s towering virtuosos.Read More »

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Mathias is a Belgian linguist, living with French theatre producer Anne. After a quarrel about moral questions, they take a train to attend a congress. While Mathias sleeps, Anne disappears. The train stops in the middle of the country and Mathias gets off the train with an older man, Hernhutter, and a young one, Val. The train moves off without them being able to catch it up. They will find a village, but cannot get any help because they do not understand a word of what the inhabitants say…Read More »

Claé and Bruó, two secret agents working for enemy kingdoms, who are dispatched to the Enchanted Forest. They finally discovered they’re on the same mission: To save the Perlimps from the terrible Giants that have surrounded the Forest.Read More »

“Offer yourself everything that makes you happy!.” This is the unwise telegram sent by unfaithful husband to his wife that he abandoned on the day of their wedding anniversary to join a young and fiery mistress in London. The abandoned wife seeks then revenge by taking the word “happy” to mean pleasure in the carnal sense of the word and discovers ecstasies she had hitherto forgotten. And in a sauna she seduces her Indian-looking house maid, next persuades a parking attendant not to write her a parking ticket – in a phone box blowing his dick – and so on.
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