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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

Divertimento

  Jacques Rivette’s “Divertimento” is a real cinematic curiosity. It’s an alternate version of a film widely considered one of the director’s best: The spellbinding 1990 “La Belle Noiseuse,” a Read More

Breathless

  Michel Poiccard, an irresponsible sociopath and small-time thief, steals a car and impulsively murders the motorcycle policeman who pursues him. Now wanted by the authorities, he renews his relationship Read More

Boeing, Boeing

  American playboy Bernard Lawrence has cleverly designed a system using the airline timetables to keep three affairs going with three different flight attendants. However, his life soon starts to Read More

The Beast

  Under the condition that within six months from the death of the accomplished businessman Philip Broadhurst, his beloved daughter and heiress to his immense fortune Lucy gets married to Read More