France

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 »

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 »

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, an 18th century painter, decides to use as a model a young washerwoman, Marianne, with whom he ends up falling in love.Read More »

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Four police officers of the SDPJ Hauts-de-Seine, Eddie Caplan, Walter Morlighem, Theo Wachevski and Roxane Delgado have their lives turned upside down when their colleague, Max, committed suicide, following a case in which he is unfairly blamed. They then cross the “yellow line”, not hesitating to circumvent the law to achieve their purposes in order to wash the honor of their friend Max.Read More »