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  • Richard Dindo – Ernesto Che Guevara, le journal de Bolivie (1994)

    1991-2000DocumentaryFranceRichard Dindo
    Ernesto Che Guevara, le journal de Bolivie (1994)
    Ernesto Che Guevara, le journal de Bolivie (1994)

    On October 9, 1967, Che Guevara was executed by the Bolivian Army, aided by the CIA. Che’s diary, a detailed, personal account of his futile, attempt to spark a revolution in Bolivia, is the basis of this intimate portrait.Read More »

  • Léandre-Alain Baker – Ramata (2009)

    2001-2010DramaLéandre-Alain BakerRomanceSenegal
    Ramata (2009)
    Ramata (2009)

    Quote:
    Ramata is a spellbindingly beautiful woman in her fifties. She has been married for thirty years now to Matar Samb, a very rich man, a former prosecutor who is now Minister of Justice. They live in Les Almadies, an elegant neighborhood of Dakar. Ngor Ndong is twenty-five. He is young, strong, mysterious and homeless. He is an occasional petty crook, known to the police. One evening, in a taxi that Ngor Ndong just happens to be driving, Ramata, reticent at first, finally agrees to follow this young man half her age to the Copacabana, a dive in the seediest part of Dakar.Read More »

  • Adrien Beau – Le Vourdalak AKA The Vourdalak (2023)

    2021-2030Adrien BeauArthouseFranceHorror
    Le Vourdalak (2023)
    Le Vourdalak (2023)

    James Gracey on Eye For Film wrote:
    Based on a 19th century Gothic novella by Aleksey Tolstoy (previously adapted for cinema by Mario Bava as a segment in his 1963 anthology, Black Sabbath), The Vourdalak is the debut feature film from French writer-director Adrien Beau. It tells of the Marquis d’Urfé (Kacey Mottet Klein), an emissary of the King of France who seeks shelter with a family when he becomes lost travelling through Eastern Europe. The family are anxiously awaiting the return of their patriarch, Gorcha, who has gone to capture an outlaw. Before leaving, he forewarned his family that if he does not return within six days, he has been killed and, if he reappears, they must refuse him entry to the house as he has become a vourdalak; a walking corpse returned from the grave seeking the blood of its loved ones…Read More »

  • Joann Sfar – Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque) (2010)

    Joann Sfar2001-2010DramaFranceMusical
    Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque) (2010)
    Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque) (2010)

    Synopsis
    A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.Read More »

  • Robin Campillo – L’île rouge AKA Red Island (2023)

    Robin Campillo2021-2030DramaFrance
    L'île rouge (2023)
    L’île rouge (2023)

    Thomas lives in a military base on colony of Madagascar. His parents and their circle, gradually becomes aware of politics both territorial and sexual while finding an outlet for his imagination in the exploits of crimebuster Fantômette.Read More »

  • Julien Duvivier – Le paquebot Tenacity aka S.S. Tenacity (1934)

    Drama1931-1940ClassicsFranceJulien Duvivier
    Le paquebot Tenacity (1934)
    Le paquebot Tenacity (1934)

    Paris, at the time of the Great Depression. Bastien, a manual worker, persuades his timid friend, Ségard, to leave with him for Canada, to start a new life in a country where, according to the publicity films, everything is possible. The two men arrive in the port of Le Havre, ready to depart on the ocean liner Tenacity. They take lodgings at a boarding house where they both fall under the spell of the charming serving girl Thérèse. When the boat’s departure is delayed, Bastien takes advantage of the hiatus to court Thérèse. One evening, he gets her drunk and lures her into bed with him, without his friend knowing. The next day, Bastien has made up his mind to stay in France with Thérèse…Read More »

  • Léonard Keigel – Leviathan (1962)

    Léonard Keigel1961-1970DramaFrance
    Leviathan (1962)
    Leviathan (1962)

    In this movie based upon Julian Green’s novel, we follow Paul’s downfall as he is torn between his love for Angele, a local prostitute, as he finds out too late, and Madame Grosgeorge’s love for him.Read More »

  • Michel Brault & Pierre Perrault – Pour la suite du monde aka For Those Who Will Follow (1963)

    Michel Brault1961-1970CanadaDocumentaryEpicPierre Perrault
    24 avril 2008
    24 avril 2008

    Pour la suite du monde, or “when cinema recreates life, old gesture and future…”

    Film Reference Library wrote:
    For centuries the inhabitants of Île-aux-Coudres, a small island in the St. Lawrence River, trapped beluga whales by sinking a weir of saplings into the offshore mud at low tide. After 1920 the practice was abandoned.

    In 1962, Michel Brault and Pierre Perrault, and a team of filmmakers from the NFB, arrived on the island to document life on Île-aux-Coudres and the resumption of the traditional whale trapping practice.Read More »

  • Ronit Elkabetz & Shlomi Elkabetz – Ve’Lakhta Lehe Isha AKA To Take a Wife (2004)

    Ronit Elkabetz2001-2010DramaIsraelShlomi Elkabetz
    Ve'Lakhta Lehe Isha (2004)
    Ve’Lakhta Lehe Isha (2004)

    The story takes place in Haifa, Israel, in 1979, during three days before the Shabbat. A young woman trying to raise three children, work from home, and observe the strict Moroccan traditions of her family finds herself at constant odds with her husband and her brothers, who want her to stay married and leave behind the notions of being loved and free.Read More »

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