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Opération Casablanca

  Having just left the shabby hotel kitchen where he works, Saadi, an undocumented Moroccan, is mistaken for a dangerous Islamic terrorist when he accidentally wanders into the middle of Read More

Place Vendôme

  Vincent Malivert is the head of a prestigious jewel broker’s firm on the exclusive Place Vendôme. Hampered by debt and implicated in the trafficking of stolen jewels, he commits Read More

Ponette

  An extremely captivating movie on how a little girl copes with her mother’s death. She withdraws from all the people around her, waiting for her mother to come back. Read More

A Very Long Engagement

  Five French soldiers are convicted of self-mutilation in order to escape military service during World War I. They are condemned to face near-certain death in the no man’s land Read More

Rojas: La Celestina

  This film is a superb production of the Rojas masterpiece. The camera expands the boundaries of artistic imagination, so that this Celestina becomes the ideal key to the work Read More

The Poem of the Cid

  El Cid is unique among the world’s great epics because it was composed so close to the actual historical events (a mere 40 years after the death of Rodrigo Read More

Carlos V: Un Monarca, un Imperio, y una Espada

  A child of Belgium, a speaker of French, and a Habsburg on his father’s side, there was little Spanish about Charles V, yet Spain was the core of his Read More

The Adventures of Antoine Doinel

  The release of François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows in 1959 shook world cinema to its foundations. The now-classic portrait of troubled adolescence introduced a major new director in the Read More

Ten Days’ Wonder

  Anthony Perkins, a young sculptor with a weird penchant for waking up in strange hotels with his memory wiped clean and bloodied hands, invites a former professor (Michel Piccoli) Read More

Testament of Orpheus

  The poet Jean Cocteau is lost in space-time. He has been in the 18th century and is now turning up at different moments in professor Langevin’s life. The professor Read More