French

Two men in their twenties spend their time in Parisian cafes trying to pick up women. They take one girl dancing, and then steal her purse when she prefers to dance with another man.Read More »

Ellias Barnès, 30, is the newly-announced artistic director of a famous Parisian fashion house. But as expectations are high, he starts experiencing chest pain. Out of the blue he is called back to Montreal to organise his estranged father’s funeral and discovers that he may have inherited much worse than his father’s weak heart.Read More »

There are several plot strands that come together like elegantly crafted origami. It’s only by watching each fold intertwine that we arrive at the beautiful final product.
A young girl named Reality (Kyla Kenedy) witnesses her hunter father gut a hog and from the animal’s innards she spots a blue video cassette (remember those). She believes the cassette holds some big secret. Her wacky parents think she’s imagining things…Read More »

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1968 and 1969 in Paris: during and after the student and trade union revolt. François is 20, a poet, dodging military service. He takes to the barricades, but won’t throw a Molotov cocktail at the police. He smokes opium and talks about revolution with his friend, Antoine, who has an inheritance and a flat where François can stay. François meets Lilie, a sculptor who works at a foundry to support herself. They fall in love. A year passes; François continues to write, talk, smoke, and be with Lilie. Opportunities come to Lilie: what will she and François do?Read More »

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Ginette, a young and free lifestyle dressmaker’s apprentice, receives each day a 10,000 francs bill, in an anonymous sealed letter. Her search among some old and wealthy acquaintances is vain. The young Ginette, first disturbed, then worried, eventually becomes used to this wonderful income transforming her life. She gives up – not without insolence – her work at the sewing workshop, and goes on holiday at her mother’s farm, in Saint-Gervais-du-Cantal. The young Parisian is in sharp contrast with her family background and her childhood friends.Read More »

A deceptive lightness distinguishes this farcical second feature made by Claude Autant-Lara while Germany occupied France. During the reign of Napoléon III, a plucky businesswoman (Odette Joyeux) agrees to receive love letters to a prefect’s wife from a young official, and soon finds herself embroiled in a scandal that inflames a town’s class tensions. A transporting period piece with ornate costumes by Christian Dior, Lettres d’amour paints a blithely pointed portrait of life in a highly stratified society.Read More »

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Paul is a 50-something call centre employee who has had enough of hismiserable non-existence.  Married, with children, he lives acrumby life which consists of just one crass, life-sapping mundanityafter another.  One Friday the 13th he watches a televisionprogramme which gives him just the spur he needs to get him out of thegroove he has been trapped in all these years.  He mounts hisracing bike and hastens away from the suburbs, heading for themountains where he will kill himself.  Unfortunately, suicide isnot nearly as straightforward as it seems…Read More »

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This is not the end of the Cocteau story, of course, for as we have constantly witnessed, he is always oriented towards the future due to his undimmed faith in the creative act, and none more so than in the medium of film. Indeed, he was even more advanced in his preparations for death and the after-life of his work than originally thought.Read More »

The young, beautiful virgin Sheherazade (Catherine Zeta-Jones, in her film debut) embarks on an adventure through the legends of the 1001 nights. Aided by a genie living in 1990 London who watches her through his TV, she meets all the great heroes and kings, when she’s not getting stripped completely naked, that is.Read More »