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Je suis a Toi (All Yours)

Posted on December 9, 2015 by

A rent boy needs a home, a baker needs love and the bakery assistant needs someone to adore her. Set in a smallish town in Belgium, the three needy characters form a trio that bends and breaks the rules of … Continue reading →

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Villa Amalia

Posted on December 8, 2015 by

A study of a musician’s mind: Isabelle Huppert’s performance takes us with magnificence to a place of pleasurable distraction and quiet meditation Continue reading →

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Parisiennes

Posted on December 4, 2015 by

Eriko Takeda plays Kyoko as a woman who knows her own mind, but at the same time welcomes Paris and wills it to change her. Continue reading →

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Fidelio : L’Odyssée D’Alice

Posted on October 11, 2015 by

Originally posted on French Film Stories:
Director Lucie Borleteau’s first feature is a gentle persistent ocean wave, carrying a young woman on a voyage of erotic desire and self-questioning. Alice (Ariane Labed), a thirty-year old mechanic, leaves her boyfriend, Félix (Anders Danielsen Lie)…

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Conte d’Été (A Summer’s Tale)

Posted on September 8, 2015 by

Source: Conte d’Été (A Summer’s Tale)

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Les Femmes du 6e Étage (The Women on the 6th Floor)

Posted on August 22, 2015 by

Watching Fabrice Luchini fall in love, bemused, is a comforting pleasure. He’s something of a bourgeois older-Prince: a romantic heart, papered-over by routine, cynicism and gentle cowardice. It’s early-sixties Paris and stock-broker Jean-Louis (Luchini) and his socialite wife Suzanne (Sandrine … Continue reading →

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Marie Rivière et l’adoration profonde d’Eric Rohmer pour les femmes

Posted on June 25, 2015 by

Eric donne les rôles principaux à des femmes qui sont parfois indépendant du rôle des hommes. Mais pourquoi? Peut-être qu’il est plus à l’aise avec les femmes. Peut-être qu’il transmet sa part féminine. Parce que ça se rapporte toujours à lui : la solitude, l’idéal, les pensées. (Marie Rivière) Continue reading →

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La French (The Connection)

Posted on June 23, 2015 by

Jean Dujardin and Gilles Lellouche latest on-screen collaboration places them on the opposite sides of a heady 70s Marseille landscape. Based on real-events at the time, La French sees magistrate Pierre Michel’s (Dujardin) attempts to break-up Marseille’s roaring heroin trade and … Continue reading →

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Timbuktu

Posted on June 13, 2015 by

An elegiac, much-lauded film, in which love, family, music, faith and football (plus a little eccentricity) bind the town of Timbuktu, despite the controlling, uncompromising presence of the Jihadists. Abderrahmane Sissako directs and writes with a poet’s sensibility, seeking emotional … Continue reading →

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La Femme De L’Aviateur (The Aviator’s Wife)

Posted on May 17, 2015 by

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Love, jealousy and misunderstanding feel like soft rain in the first of Eric Rohmer’s ‘Comedies and Proverbs’ series. Here are two very different 1980s Parisian women. One is Anne (Marie Rivière): she’s a 25…

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