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Secret Defense

  Sylvie, a young biologist, is thrown into confusion when her brother, Paul, tries to persuade her that their father’s death five years ago was not a suicide. Paul is Read More

That Man from Rio

  Farce, spy spoof, and adventure. Swarthy thieves ignore jewels to steal an Amazon figurine from the Museum of Man in Paris’ Trocadero Palace and kidnap the world’s authority on Read More

Two English Girls

  At the beginning of the 20th century, Claude Roc, a young middle-class Frenchman meets in Paris Ann Brown, a young Englishwoman. They become friends and Ann invites him to Read More

Total Eclipse

  In 1871, Paul Verlaine (1844-1896), an established poet, invites boy genius Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) to live with Paul and his young pregnant wife, Mathiltde, in her father’s home in Read More

Rosetta

  Belgian 17-year-old Rosetta (Émilie Dequenne) lives in a dilapidated trailer that has no running water, with only her indigent and alcoholic mother (Anne Yernaux) for company. After losing her Read More

Pascual Duarte

  The first-person narrator-protagonist Pascual Duarte, while awaiting execution in the condemned cell, tells the story of his family life and his homicidal past, culminating in matricide. He claims, amongst Read More

Under the Sun of Satan

  A priest stuck in a rural congregation and burdened with his overwrought spirituality, finds purpose in a troubled woman accused of murder.

The Salamander

  Two men, arty though somewhat staid, are drawn to the spirited and quixotic Rosemonde, a young working-class woman whom they meet because they’re writing a teleplay about a minor Read More

Sundays and Cybèle

  After killing a child when his plane crashes in a Vietnamese village, Pierre suffers from delayed stress and partial amnesia. Returning to France, he lives like a vegetable until Read More

François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits

  Twenty-six people – including two daughters, an ex-wife, his last lover, actors, fellow directors and writers, a neighbor, and boyhood friends – talk about François Truffaut. They discuss his Read More