Posted on May 8, 2019
Aging opera singer Joachim Dallayrac retires from the stage and retreats to the countryside to school two young singers, Sophie and Jean. Although the rigorous training takes its toll Read More
Posted on May 2, 2019
In eighteenth-century France a girl (Suzanne Simonin) is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior (Madame de Moni, Sister Sainte-Christine, and Madame de Read More
Posted on May 2, 2019
In early twentieth-century Brittany, two peasants marry, have a son, and live in traditional Breton ways: three generations under one roof, a division of labor between the sexes, elders’ Read More
Posted on May 2, 2019
In June of 1791, a group of passengers in a stagecoach find themselves caught up in the events of the French Revolution, when they find themselves in the city Read More
Posted on May 2, 2019
The film is set in rural Québec in the 1830s. Élisabeth at the deathbed of her second husband, Jérôme Rolland, recalls her youth which is conveyed through a series Read More
Posted on May 2, 2019
An inspired production of Giraudoux’ famous play about the conflict between those who see war as the greatest risk of all and the ultimate folly, and those who speak Read More
Posted on May 2, 2019
Louis, a nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Read More
Posted on May 2, 2019
Halifax, 1863. A young woman, Miss Lewly, comes to Halifax to search for Lt Pinson, with whom she is madly in love. Actually, she is Adèle Hugo, the second Read More
Posted on May 2, 2019
Swiss director Claude Goretta has made a film in the tradition of the late Rober to Rossellini’s great “teaching” films, such as THE RISE OF LOUISE XIV and THE Read More
Posted on May 2, 2019
Cardinal Mazarin dies. In the power vacuum, the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin’s fiscal advisor, Colbert, warns against Fouquet, the Surintendant who’s Read More
