French

Celebrating movie theaters’ magic, a film enthusiast follows the footsteps of Paul Dédalus. Memories, fiction, and discoveries intertwine in a torrential flow of cinematic imagery.Read More »

Five young mothers living in a shelter strive for a better future for themselves and kids amidst challenging upbringings.Read More »

Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with La haine, a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically the low-income banlieue districts on Paris’s outskirts. Aimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Hubert (Hubert Koundé), and Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui)—Jewish, African, and Arab, respectively—give human faces to France’s immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their marginalization slowly simmering until it reaches a climactic boiling point. A work of tough beauty, La haine is a landmark of 1990s French cinema and a gripping reflection of its country’s ongoing identity crisis.Read More »

The artistic life of Jacques Tati, from his beginnings as a mime to his last film. A low-budget first feature film, which struggled for a year to find a distributor, before becoming a huge hit… The creation of an eccentric character, who immediately entered the annals of cinema… A Special Jury Prize at Cannes and an Oscar in Hollywood … Then a massive project. A gigantic set, a three-year shoot, a storm, impatient bankers, a lens seized in the middle of filming, a mortgaged house. And in the end, a masterpiece… as well as a financial wreck. His company was liquidated, his films were placed in receivership… But he never stopped creating.Read More »

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During his honeymoon a man, who is very much a Don Juan, suddenly becomes impotent and strives to regain his virility. His wife, his friends and everyone joins in to find a solution, giving rise to hilarious scenes. Finally, it is a wise man who manages to put his finger on the bobo, so to speak.Read More »

Judith, a French journalist meets Salvador Dali on several occasions, one of the main representatives of surrealism and one of the most famous painters of the twentieth century for a documentary film project which never gets to start shooting…Read More »

When lawyer Marc Delmas learns that his wife Jeanne has invited her new lover Antoine to move in with her, his reaction is to hire a call girl, Samantha Page. To his surprise, Samantha is intelligent and sensitive, as well as beautiful, and he immediately falls in love with her. His relationship with Jeanne well and truly over, Marc starts an affair with Samantha, and the couple live an idyllic life alongside Jeanne and Antoine. Things suddenly go wrong for everyone when one of Samantha’s ex-boyfriends turns up unexpectedly… @filmsdefranceRead More »

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A young student meets an elderly antiques-loving couple looking for a help. They like her very much, and she’s hired on the spot.Read More »

Run escapes… He just killed the Prime Minister of his country. In order to do so, he had to act as if he was a crazy man, wandering through the city. His life comes back by flashes ; his childhood with Tourou when his dream was to become a rain miracle-worker, his adventures with Gladys the eater, and his past as a young member of militia, in the heart of the politic and military conflict in Ivory Coast. All those lives, Run didn’t choose them. Everytime, he felt in by running from another life. That’s the reason why his name’s Run.
—Philippe LacôteRead More »