Posted on January 28, 2022
Hypochondriac Argan’s household revolves around his obsession with his chronic imaginary illnesses. Served by a pair of unscrupulous doctors, Argan even goes so far as to try to marry Read More
Posted on April 16, 2021
‘Berenice’ is the fifth of nine plays written by Jean Racine between 1664 and 1677 before his sudden and still unexplained decision to give up the theater. One of Read More
Posted on March 15, 2021
In the absence of her royal husband, Theseus, thought to be dead, Phèdre declares her love to Hippolyte, Theseus’s son from a previous marriage. Marie Bell enacts the role Read More
Posted on March 15, 2021
The film revolves around the French king Louis XIV’s rise to power after the death of his powerful advisor, Cardinal Mazarin. To achieve this political autonomy, Louis deals with Read More
Posted on February 26, 2021
In a magical, faraway land, a widower king (Jean Marais) decrees that he will wed his daughter, the princess (Catherine Deneuve), because she’s the only woman able to match Read More
Posted on February 26, 2021
Kourou (Papa Wemba) is a young man seeking fame and fortune as a singer in Zaire’s capital, Kinshasa. He finds work with Mamou (Landu Nzunzimbu Matshia), the wife of Read More
Posted on February 23, 2021
A young girl crosses paths with a witch who has the power to satisfy her curiosity about men by changing her into one. Re-imagining several folk tales into a Read More
Posted on February 23, 2021
Mossane is a beautiful 14-year-old girl who has just reached marriageable age in a village in Senegal. She has many suitors, including a simple-minded farmer’s son who plans to Read More
Posted on February 23, 2021
Vivacious dissident Karmen Geï (Djeinaba Diop Gai), stuck in a Senegalese prison, performs a dance so erotic and mesmerizing that she seduces the warden, Angelique (Stephanie Biddle), and is Read More
Posted on February 23, 2021
After being kicked out of her African village three decades earlier for getting pregnant out of wedlock, Linguere (Ami Diakhate) has returned home. While Linguere has done well for Read More
