French

Seven girls, a mansion perched on a Cycladic rock, a cycle of lessons on discipline, desire and demise-infinitely.Read More »

A girl’s obsession with firemen causes her to start a fire at her own home in order to trap a fireman in her room. The film features the last onscreen performance by Dionys Mascolo (writer, political activist, known for his voiceover in India Song and for his love affair with Marguerite Duras) and one of the earliest appearances of Pascal Greggory.Read More »

After his wife deserted him, Frédéric Grimaud had to bring up his four daughters alone. Today, as his daughters approach womanhood, they dutifully help him out in his busy bookshop. Rosine, the youngest, has fallen in love with Francis, the handsome fiancé of her sister Edith. Desperate, Rosine telephones Francis to let him know she intends to kill herself. Overhearing this conversation, a young doctor decides to come to the aid of the distressed adolescent…Read More »

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Amanda Shell, who has a toy boy, is trying to sell a house in the country. She has two nieces, Tina Loren and Valerie Vinal who play tennis on the court attached to the house wearing no knickers. They are watched by Jean-Pierre Armand who is trying to persuade Marilyn Jess to have sex with him. He succeeds by winning a bet with her that the other two girls play knickerless tennis. The two nieces seduce the prospective buyer, Jean-Pierre has it away with Marilyn, who also has it away with the prospective buyer, and so on.Read More »

Reluctantly, a sulky adolescent returns to her parents’ house for yet another boring summer vacation, dabbling in desire and the art of desirability, eventually mixing reality with vision, caged fantasies with the fierce female sexuality.Read More »

Grenouilles (Frogs) is perhaps Arrieta’s strangest film. Anne Wiazemsky plays a beautiful Russian spy, Nora, who arrives on an island in the middle of the ocean, to avenge the betrayal of her lover, the artist Tibor. Other characters include a spy from UNESCO, a mysterious stranger who is plotting the end of the world, and a gang of thieves disguised as frogmen…Read More »

Synopsis:
As the scarlet flames lick her pale and desperate face while the feeble body is eager to succumb, a vindictive unrepentant witch doomed by the Grand Inquisitor Jeffries and Lady de Winter to die at the stake vomits her last malignant and sulphurous curse to all those guilty of her ordeal. As a result, petrified and with the curse of demise upon the accusers’ heads, Lord and Lady de Winter set out to trace the witch’s dark bloodline, and in particular, her daughters Kathleen and Margaret who have been raised as Sisters in the Blackmoor convent since childhood. But within the nunnery’s thick stone walls, rabid desire and evil possession govern, furthermore, only one daughter is the curse’s true heir. Which one is granted the power of retribution?Read More »

About two novelists, one returning from Japan with an adventure story she has not completed, the other in Japan, at work typing his next novel.Read More »

We have the impression of seeing the segment with François Cluzet and Frédérique Bel in L’art d’aimer, but the gamy flesh side in addition.Read More »