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  • Michel Gondry – Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?: An Animated Conversation with Noam Chomsky (2013)

    2011-2020AnimationDocumentaryFranceMichel Gondry
    Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? An Animated Conversation with Noam Chomsky (2013)
    Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? An Animated Conversation with Noam Chomsky (2013)

    This is a beautiful documentary with hand-drawn animations for the most part. The film gives the linguistics theories of Noam Chomsky a proper medium of expression to make them understandable even for people who had not any previous contact with the field.
    This could be the perfect educational material for the introduction of linguistics to people of almost any age above 10!Read More »

  • Claire Denis – 35 rhums AKA 35 Shots of Rum (2008)

    Claire Denis2001-2010ArthouseDramaFrance
    35 rhums (2008)
    35 rhums (2008)

    Lionel has brought up his daughter, Josephine, on his own since his wife’s accidental death. Over the years, their life together has grown to resemble that of a couple. Josephine has now reached the age at which the roles begin to be inverted. She is now the one who seems to want to take care of her father. Lionel knows that he has one more thing to do: to convince Josephine to make her own way in the world, to become a woman and to leave him.Read More »

  • Anne-Sophie Birot – Les Filles ne Savent pas Nager aka Girls Can’t Swim (2000)

    Anne-Sophie Birot1991-2000ArthouseDramaFrance
    Les Filles ne Savent pas Nager (2000)
    Les Filles ne Savent pas Nager (2000)

    Quote:
    Even though they grew up in opposite parts of France, Gwen (Isild Le Besco) and Lise (Karen Alyx) are best friends and spend every summer vacation together on the Brittany coast where Gwen lives and Lise’s family has a summer home. But this summer is different because Lise’s family isn’t going on vacation for reasons that she won’t explain to Gwen. Sick of her parents bickering about money and missing her bosom buddy, Gwen finds a boyfriend and mingles with some horny out-of-towners. Now fifteen, she’s discovered that summer can be fun even if Lise isn’t there. Then suddenly, Lise shows up at Gwen’s house uninvited to stay for a couple of weeks. Read More »

  • Gaston Ravel – Tao (1923)

    1921-1930DramaFranceGaston RavelSilent
    Tao (1923)
    Tao (1923)

    Quote:
    Jacques Chauvry, the new government delegate for a French protectorate in Cambodia, meets the young Soun who, due to a series of circumstances, will become heir to land that houses a large oil field. Tao , an evil mestizo, along with his minions, tries to get hold of these lands, terrorizing the locals by appearing disguised as the “spirit of evil”.Read More »

  • 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 »

  • 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 »

  • Marcel L’Herbier – L’argent (1928)

    Silent1921-1930DramaFranceMarcel L'Herbier
    L'argent (1928)
    L’argent (1928)

    Quote:
    Adapted from Émile Zola’s novel of the same name, Marcel L’Herbier’s L’Argent [Money] is an opulent classic of late-silent era cinema. Filmed in part on location at the Paris stock exchange, it reveals a world of intrigue, greed, decadence, and ultimately corruption and scandal when business dealings and amorous deceit combine. Business tycoons Saccard and Gunderman lock horns when the former attempts to raise capital for his faltering bank. To inflate the price of his stock, Saccard concocts a duplicitous publicity stunt involving the unwitting aviator Hamelin and a flight across the Atlantic to drill for oil, much to the dismay of his wife Line.Read More »

  • Noel Keserwany & Michelle Keserwany – Les chenilles (2023)

    Noel Keserwany2021-2030DramaFranceMichelle KeserwanyShort Film
    Les chenilles (2023)
    Les chenilles (2023)

    Golden Bear for Best Short Film / Berlinale, Berlin International Film Festival 2023

    Asma and Sarah, two women originally from the Levant, find themselves working in the same restaurant in the city of Lyon in France. Both bear the weight of a home they were forced to leave behind. Initially wary of each other, they gradually discover a common thread that binds them – one that dates back to when the Silk Road connected Lyon to their home countries.
    In the midst of forced migrations, can we move past our animosity to find solace in each other?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 »

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