France

  • Yannick Bellon – L’amour nu (1981)

    Yannick Bellon1981-1990DramaFranceRomance
    L'amour nu (1981)
    L’amour nu (1981)

    In this film, bilingual UNESCO interpreter Claire meets oceanographer Simon at an international conference. The two are drawn to each other, and romance blossoms. Just as they begin to establish a stable relationship, she discovers that she has breast cancer and can’t bring herself to tell her new boyfriend.Read More »

  • Robert Kramer – Walk the Walk (1996)

    Robert Kramer1991-2000ArthouseDramaFrance
    Walk the Walk (1996)
    Walk the Walk (1996)

    PLOT: The story of several trips, that of Raye, a young girl who leaves the family home for one or other European countries, that of her father, Abel, former athlete and finally that of Nellie, his wife, who does not not but travel among the micro-organisms that she studies with her microscope.Read More »

  • Benoît Jacquot – Les ailes de la colombe AKA The Wings of the Dove (1981)

    Benoît Jacquot1981-1990DramaFranceRomance
    Les ailes de la colombe (1981)
    Les ailes de la colombe (1981)

    A mature lady approaches a young actor and offers him a great amount of money to get acquainted with her lonely daughter, who suffers of an incurable illness. Eventually a true romance emerges, as mother has secret feelings for the man, while he truly falls in love with the daughter. After the expected death of the daughter, the man leaves in grief rejecting the money, and the mature woman stays in deep loneliness, trying to cope with a double loss.Read More »

  • Michel Houellebecq – La Possibilité d’une île AKA The Possibility of an Island (2008)

    Michel Houellebecq2001-2010DramaFrance
    La Possibilité d'une île (2008)
    La Possibilité d’une île (2008)

    The Possibility of an Island, based on a novel by Houllebecq himself in 2005, certainly has an intriguing enough concept: it reads like a disjointed surrealist take on science fiction — a post-apocalyptic mash-up of A Boy and His Dog, Solaris and The Holy Mountain, with cloning and bikini contests thrown in for good measure. Whether or not it will actually succeed is another matter; thus far, critics have not been kind. The Guardian’s Geoffrey MacNab sat down with Houllebecq to discuss the process of moviemaking, how it differs from writing, and whether or not he intends to contune on as a filmmaker. “Maybe it is a superficial motivation,” he says of filming many of the movie’s scenes in Andalucian Spain, “but I always go to the locations when I write a novel. In this case, some of the locations were so impressive that the idea for the film came from that…I enjoyed the preparation of the movie. I mean, the period immediately before the shooting when you choose everything, all the details. When you create the world.”Read More »

  • Mona Achache – Little Girl Blue (2023)

    2021-2030DocumentaryDramaFranceMona Achache
    Little Girl Blue (2023)
    Little Girl Blue (2023)

    In 2016, French writer and photographer Carole Achache took her own life. After Carole’s death, her daughter Mona Achache, a film director, discovers thousands of photos, letters and recordings that Carole left behind, but these buried secrets make her disappearance even more of an enigma. Through the power of filmmaking and the beauty of incarnation with the help of actress Marion Cotillard, the director brings her mother back to life to retrace her journey and find out who she really was.Read More »

  • Jean-Claude Biette – Le complexe de Toulon (1996)

    1991-2000ComedyFranceJean-Claude Biette
    Le complexe de Toulon (1996)
    Le complexe de Toulon (1996)

    The story of two brothers and an essay writer who’s become a theater comedian, switching between dream and reality — knowing that dream is always closer to reality…Read More »

  • Jean Grémillon – Daïnah la métisse (1932)

    1931-1940DramaFranceJean GrémillonMystery
    Daïnah la métisse (1932)
    Daïnah la métisse (1932)

    Synopsis:
    Shades of Othello loom in this engrossing exploration of class, race, and murder set on an ocean liner. Young Dainah encounters an engineer on board who mistakes pleasantries for flirtation. When she disappears the next day, suspicion spreads not only to the engineer but also to Dainah’s husband. Forward-thinking and absorbing.Read More »

  • Maureen Fazendeiro – Motu Maeva (2014)

    Maureen Fazendeiro2011-2020ArthouseDocumentaryFrance
    Motu Maeva (2014)
    Motu Maeva (2014)

    A journey through the memories of Sonja André, an adventurer from the 20th century who lives in a shelter she built herself on the island of Motu Maeva. Without following a specific route, her images bring back major events and small anecdotes while chronicling her life between the 1950s and 1970s.Read More »

  • Philippe Le Guay – Les femmes du 6ème étage AKA The Women on the 6th Floor (2010)

    France2001-2010ComedyPhilippe Le Guay
    Les femmes du 6ème étage (2010)
    Les femmes du 6ème étage (2010)

    The year is 3084. Man has settled interplanetary space but space is still full of secrets. On a research mission to a newly discovered galaxy heads the most advanced spaceship, Delta, operated by an extremely powerful electronic brain. Project Delta was conceived in order to establish a dialogue between intergalactic civilizations. Soon after an alien journalist, Alma, is allowed to board the spaceship, she and the captain notice that the super-brain that controls the ship is acting autonomously. No one, however, counts on the fact that this artificial super intelligence will want to explore the area of human emotions and feelings. Eventually, they realize that the journalist’s beauty is the reason for the brain’s odd behavior. She has become its muse. The enamored machine becomes out of control and threatens all living things around them.Read More »

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