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The Blood of a Poet

  A young artist draws a face at a canvas on his easel. Suddenly the mouth on the drawing comes into life and starts talking. The artist tries to wipe Read More

Bed and Board

  Antoine and Christine have gotten married and are living in a pleasant apartment that her parents have found for them. In it she gives violin lessons, while he works Read More

Black Hanky-Panky

  Michel le Gorgues is a by-the-book government employee in charge of Building Safety & Sanitation at the Paris “Prefecture”. Because he has deemed as unsanitary and dangerous a tenement Read More

The Barbarian Invasions

  In this belated sequel to ‘The Decline of the American Empire’, 50-something Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. He decides to make amends Read More

The Beat That My Heart Skipped

  Twenty-eight-year-old Tom leads a life that might be termed as criminal. In doing so, he follows in the footsteps of his father, who made his money from dirty, and Read More

Babette’s Feast

  In a remote 19th-century Danish village, two sisters lead a rigid life centered around their father, the local minister, and their church. Both had opportunities to leave the village: Read More

Le chemin de l’honneur

  Georges Imbert is a sergeant in the French Foreign Legion who has served with distinction for five years. Now, to his surprise, he finds his services are no longer Read More

The Raven

  A vicious series of poison-pen letters spreads rumours, suspicion and fear among the inhabitants of a small French town, and one after another, they turn on each other as Read More

Chloe in the Afternoon

  The last of Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales. Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher Read More

The Clockmaker

  Michel Descombes is a watchmaker in the district of Saint-Paul, Lyons. He lives quietly, alone with his almost grown-up son, Bernard. One day, the police come and say Bernard Read More