Klein (Delon), a Parisian art dealer, is delivered a copy of a An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.Discretion is the better part of valour, they say. On lakeside summer holiday, a conflicted older man is dared to have a flirt with two beautiful teenage stepsisters despite his betrothal to a diplomat's daughter and the fact that the girls have boyfriends.The fifth and most accessible of Rohmer's six 'moral tales', Claire's Knee is the story of the temptation of an affianced diplomat (Brialy) while on holiday, and its successful suppression. A film about the French general's youth and early military career.Bambi Ballard's latest restoration of cinema's supreme, grandiloquent epic (63 mins longer than the version premiered by Kevin Brownlow in 1979, tinted and with an extended three-screen climax) is the closest we're ever likely to IP5, l'île aux pachydermes, A French village doctor becomes the target of poison-pen letters sent to village leaders, accusing him of affairs and practicing abortion.David Thomson calls Clouzot's a 'cinema of total disenchantment'. Director: Claude Sautet Avec : Two neurotics, working for a suicide hotline on the night of Christmas Eve, get caught up in a catastrophe when a pregnant woman, her abusive boyfriend, and a transvestite visit their office.This film ranked #21 in Time Out's list of the 100 greatest French films. Violence.
An erratic young woman's family desperately tries to prevent her increasingly erotic ways.15-year-old Suzanne (Bonnaire) seems unable to progress beyond a rather doleful promiscuity in her relations with boys. Rate. It is a musical in which every line of dialogue is sung.
Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. The film won the Prix Méliès, and was nominated for nine César Awards: Best Film, Best Director, Most Promising Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Music, Best Production Design and Best Sound. Several ordinary Frenchmen, helping British pilots avoid Nazi captivity, go on epic voyage through the occupied country to the Swiss border.La Grande Vadrouille literally "The Great Stroll"; originally released in the United States as Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!)
They start a love affair, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stand staying away from her.Those whose knowledge of French nouvelle vague linchpin François Truffaut begins with ‘The 400 Blows’ and ends with
The chauvinist Alexandre balances relationships with several women, including the maternal Marie and the sexually liberated Veronika, in the post-1968 intellectual scene of Paris.Three-and-a-half hours of people talking about sex sounds like a recipe for boredom; in Eustache's hands, it is anything but.
Anne-Marie Stretter, wife of a French diplomat, lives in 1930s India. François has lost his ideals and practices medicine for the money; his wife grows distant, even hostile. Director: Marcel Carné.
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Will Thomas still lead a life of crime and cruelty, just like his thuggish father, or will he pursue his dream of becoming a pianist?Remaking James Toback's 1978 Fingers, director Jacques Audiard (Read My Lips) has turned the story of Tom (Duris), a petty 24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs the day after a violent riot.Twenty-four hours in the Paris projects: an Arab boy is critically wounded in hospital, gut-shot, and a police revolver has found its way into the hands of a young Jewish skinhead, Vinz (Cassel), who vows to even the score Advertising. And you couldn’t imagine a more discreet tribute to the heroes of the wartime French Resistance than this terrific late-’60s thriller by the ex-Maquis member
He meets friends, acquaintances and women, trying to find a reason to continue living.
A man begins to believe his wife is cheating on him.One of Chabrol's mid-period masterpieces, a brilliantly ambivalent scrutiny of bourgeois marriage and murder that juggles compassion and cynicism in a way that makes Hitchcock look obvious.
And as diversion, this serial saga (in 10 episodes) of a band of robbers whose principals include Satanas, who keeps a howitzer behind the Will Mr Klein clear his name?The action of Losey's film takes place against the Nazi deportation of French Jews - a set of circumstances which the film doesn't so much explore as get lost in. Although the setting is changed from Big City USA to the dismal, wintry Paris suburbs, this neo-noir retains the outline of Jim
Three separate stories about the same thing: le plaisir (pleasure).Ophüls' second French film following his return from the USA was adapted from three stories by Maupassant. A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.Banned on its original release as 'too demoralising', and only made available again in its original form in 1956, Renoir's brilliant social comedy is epitomised by the phrase 'everyone has their reasons'. A woman narrates the contemplative writings of a seasoned world traveler, focusing on contemporary Japan.Imagine getting letters from a friend in Japan, letters full of images, sounds and ideas.