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Last Year at Marienbad

  In a huge, old-fashioned luxury hotel a stranger tries to persuade a married woman to run away with him, but it seems she hardly remembers the affair they may Read More

Rupture

  In 1961, Pierre Étaix co-wrote and co-directed an 11-minute short subject entitled Rupture.  Apart from the opening scenes in which Étaix dodges cars and pedestrians to hurry home to Read More

La Pointe Courte

  The great Agnès Varda’s film career began with this graceful, penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village. Both Read More

Indochine

  In colonial-era Vietnam, Jean-Baptiste (Vincent Perez), a dashing French naval captain; Eliane (Catherine Deneuve), a wealthy plantation owner of French parentage; and her adopted Vietnamese daughter, Camille (Linh Dan Read More

How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman

  A Frenchman (Arduíno Colassanti), who is part of a faction from his country trying to stake a claim to Brazil before the Portuguese colonize it, is held by a Read More

Heal the Living

  Three teenage boys meet up before dawn to go surfing. They huddle together, zipping up their wet suits, and then plunge into the cold, heaving ocean. Waves surge up, Read More

Germinal

  The story is a simple one. We meet the Maheu family, who live crowded together in a cold and smoky cottage not far from the mines.  They do backbreaking Read More

Gemma Bovery

  Martin (Fabrice Luchini), an ex-Parisian with a deep appreciation for Gustave Flaubert, has settled in a village in Normandy as a baker. He sees a British couple moving into Read More

Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask

  Explores the life and work of the psychoanalytic theorist and activist Frantz Fanon who was born in Martinique, educated in Paris and worked in Algeria. Examines Fanon’s theories of Read More

Faat Kiné

  A forty-year-old woman refuses to give into the stigma of unwed motherhood and climbs the ladder of success in a male dominated field. Set in present-day Dakar, Sengal, the Read More