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  • Michel Deville – Les petites demoiselles (1964)

    1961-1970ComedyFranceMichel Deville

    Synopsis: “Four young girls’ love of boys put their newly opened all-services company in peril.”Read More »

  • Michel Deville – Ce soir ou jamais AKA Tonight or Never (1961)

    1961-1970ComedyDramaFranceMichel Deville

    Synopsis:
    ‘Laurent is a poster designer who is about to begin rehearsals for his first stage play, a musical comedy. To celebrate this auspicious event, he holds a party at his apartment, to which his best friends are all invited. News that the lead actress in Laurent’s play has been run over by a bus laden with Dutch tourists puts a damper on the evening, but Laurent wastes no time looking for a replacement, not knowing that his girlfriend Valérie covets the part. As Valérie’s dreams of stardom are crushed she realises that her relationship with Laurent is over – or so she thinks. Either way, the evening will prove decisive for them both…’
    – Films de FranceRead More »

  • Mia Hansen-Løve – Maya (2018)

    2011-2020DramaFranceMia Hansen-Løve

    December 2012. After four months in captivity in Syria, two French reporters are released.
    Gabriel, the younger one, is just shy of 30.
    Following a day of interrogations and medical exams, Gabriel is allowed to see his loved ones: his father, his ex- girlfriend Naomi… His mother lives in India, where he grew up. She has cut ties with everyone.
    A few weeks later, unable to find his bearings, Gabriel decides to leave for India. He moves into his childhood home in Goa, and meets Maya, a young Indian girl.Read More »

  • Hachimiya Ahamada – L’Ivresse d’une Oasis AKA Ashes of Dreams (2011)

    2011-2020African CinemaArthouseComorosDocumentaryHachimiya Ahamada

    On an island in the Indian Ocean, the Comoros archipelago, unoccupied houses await the arrival of their owners. These places without souls and half built abound across the landscape. The myth of eternal return is repeated in the Comorian diaspora.Read More »

  • Jacques Doillon – L’amoureuse (1987)

    1981-1990ArthouseDramaFranceJacques Doillon

    French synopsis:
    Histoire et commentaires
    Des amies se réunissent en Normandie, dans une grande maison de bord de mer pour l’anniversaire de Vanessa. Mais celle-ci, quittée par Michel, n’a pas envie de le fêter. Le temps d’un week-end sur la côte normande, les jeunes filles jouent le jeu de l’amour, chacune vivant à sa manière les méandres de sa vie sentimentale, jusqu’au moment où un jeune américain vient troubler leur intimité. L’une d’elle va succomber à ses charmes, mais l’amoureuse sera-t-elle vraiment amoureuse ?Read More »

  • Alice Diop – La permanence (2016)

    2011-2020Alice DiopDocumentaryFrance

    Synopsis
    In competition at the Cinéma du Réel Film Festival in Paris (March 2016) where it received the Institut français Louis Marcorelles Award, On Call is a film that makes a difference and is necessary as an increasingly fearful Europe faces the influx of refugees and migrants.
    In a small doctor’s office, a fixed camera is placed on one side or the other of the room, allowing either the practitioner or the patient to be seen. How is it that the viewer remains glued to the screen for more than an hour and a half with such a minimalist approach? Glued, moved, in total empathy with those men and women, their pain, their suffering?
    No doubt, it is what Alice Diop felt from the impact of hearing about these dramatic experiences that speak of the terrible evolution of a world where violence has become commonplace.Read More »

  • Gahité Fofana – Un matin bonne heure AKA Early in the Morning (2006)

    2001-2010ArthouseDramaGahité FofanaGuinea

    Two Guinean kids do not manage to find work despite their inventiveness and creativity. That’s why they decide to travel to Europe as aircraft stowaways. Soberly told but moving indictment, based on true events.

    Early in the Morning is a moving indictment and sober and atmospheric narrative that does not mythologise. It is based on a true story. The convincing tone of the film may well result from the background of Gahité Fofana, who had previously made documentaries about AIDS in Africa and about a gang member condemned to death. Fofana: ‘Yaguine and Fodé want to study, combat misery, deny fate. Read More »

  • Jean-Pierre Mocky – Agent Trouble AKA The Man Who Loved Zoos (1987)

    1981-1990FranceJean-Pierre MockyThriller

    Amanda Weber is a museum employee. Her nephew, Victorien, who feels that wild animals should not be kept in zoos, while hitchhiking saw a mysterious bus with 50 dead tourists that later was found by autorities at the bottom of a lake. When Victorien gets in very serious problems due to what he saw Amanda seeks to find out what happened and soon also becomes a target.Read More »

  • Dominique Cabrera & Edmée Doroszlai – Chronique d’une banlieue ordinaire [+Extra] (1992)

    1991-2000DocumentaryDominique CabreraEdmée DoroszlaiFrance

    At the end of the 80’s, four blocs of low cost housing in a Parisian suburb, Val-Fourre are being destroyed. Some people who lived here remember about their lives in these buildings.Read More »

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