French

This is a Vichy-sponsored propaganda film proposing to expose the occult power of the Freemasons.Read More »

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.Read More »

PLOT: Short of cash for his private clinic, a French psychiatrist accepts money from a NATO Intelligence agent to shelter a defecting Soviet-bloc scientist but enemy spies are closing-in.Read More »

Bouanani’s first short film—adapted from a 16th century poem by a legendary Moroccan bard—tells the story of a man from Tarfaya who, from his early childhood, penetrated by the grandeur of his country, the power of its beauty and the normal life of his ancestors, set off for the looking for a great folk poet whom he had been told about, and who would be able to teach him wisdom, music, and the wonderful art of song and poetry.Read More »

Jacques Averil leads an idle life that plunges him into lassitude and melancholy.
When he learns of his father’s suicide, a banker ruined by a shady ore speculation in Iceland,
he decides to take matters into his own hands.
An old friend of his father offers him the chance to sign on as a sailor aboard a terre-neuvas.
On the trawler, the law of the strongest, even the fiercest even the most ferocious…Read More »

PLOT: The last days of Jesus into Jerusalem, from the perspective of an unexpected Judas, presented as the closest of his disciples.Read More »

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All those who, like me, see auction rooms as places charged with poetry and mystery […] cannot fail to be deeply moved by Jamais plus toujours. Not only because of the melancholy charm and subtle refinement of this visual poem, but because this happens to be a poem dedicated to the object, and it is high time that we considered the place of the object in our civilisation. – Claude Lévi-StraussRead More »

unifrance.org” wrote:
Fabrice Luchini recites from La Fontaine, Céline, Flaubert and other great writers, followed and filmed through his performances by Benoît Jacquot. Alone on stage, Luchini speaks, recites, narrates and acts out some of the finest pearls of French literature.Read More »

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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 »