Posted on May 16, 2019
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
Posted on May 16, 2019
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
Posted on May 16, 2019
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
Posted on May 10, 2019
A priest stuck in a rural congregation and burdened with his overwrought spirituality, finds purpose in a troubled woman accused of murder.
Posted on May 10, 2019
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
Posted on May 10, 2019
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
Posted on May 10, 2019
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
Posted on May 10, 2019
On Christmas Eve, Jean Martens, a Swiss minister, takes in a blind half-crippled orphan and brings her up with his four children. But Gertrude grows to be a woman Read More
Posted on May 10, 2019
The story, which takes place in 1941, concerns the relationship of a Frenchman (Jean-Marie Robain) and his niece (Nicole Stéphane) with a cultured, naively idealistic German lieutenant, Werner von Read More
Posted on May 10, 2019
Savage Nights is the story of a bisexual filmmaker who celebrates his promiscuity and engages in unsafe sex even after he discovers he has AIDS. The movie is the Read More
