Posted on July 27, 2018
Le Cid is a five-act French tragicomedy written by Pierre Coreille, first performed in December 1636 in Paris and published the same year. It is based on Guillén de Read More
Posted on July 27, 2018
An interview with renowned French author Aimé Césaire that explores his inspiration, political views, and literary techniques. This monumental, study introduces audiences to the celebrated Martinican author who coined Read More
Posted on July 27, 2018
This monumental, three-part study introduces audiences to the celebrated Martinican author who coined the term “négritude” and launched the movement called the “Great Black Cry”. Euzhan weaves Césaire’s life and poetry Read More
Posted on July 27, 2018
Mathilde and her husband, who works in a minister’s office, are not rich. Mathilde, however, loves beautiful clothes and her husband loves her so much that he lets her Read More
Posted on July 27, 2018
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
Posted on July 27, 2018
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
Posted on July 27, 2018
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
Posted on July 27, 2018
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
Posted on July 27, 2018
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
Posted on July 27, 2018
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
