Tag: FRANCE

October 21, 2018 / Thriller

Charles, a sixtyish career criminal fresh out of jail, rejects his wife’s plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cellmate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino. Bad luck and Francis’s lack of professionalism set the caper maddeningly askew, and the stolen cash resurfaces in an unexpected manner.

October 14, 2018 / Film Noir
October 5, 2018 / Adventure

This drama of 18th-century Russia and the reign of Catherine the Great tells of the romance of a young officer and his commander’s daughter. The country is torn by revolt as Pugachev leads his Cossack rebels against the forces of the Czarina. As battles rage, the young lovers are caught in a web of deceit and treason, only to be spared at the end through the generosity of Pugachev, who goes to the gallows.

October 3, 2018 / Drama
September 27, 2018 / Comedy

Anna is about Serge, an advertising agency honcho, who falls madly in love with a young woman photographed in a station by chance. Happiness seems to beckon and Serge, helped by a friend, sets to find this elusive girl by employing the agency’s entire workforce. Combining a touch of the Nouvelle Vague with pop culture, the film contains “English” musical compositions by Serge Gainsbourg.

September 17, 2018 / Arthouse

A patient observation on the adventures a group of three young girls spending their three-week summer vacation at a small village, a quotidian that includes cooking, excursions, playing cards and going out with guys, enjoying the simple pleasures life has to offer.

September 12, 2018 / Documentary

Co-directed by Godard with the Dziga Vertov group in 1969, ‘Pravda’ is a direct attack to revisionism and socialist imperialism. With his usual heterogeneous collage of images taken from real life, the film is structured in a sort of letter that a man writes to a woman called Rosa from Bulgaria and later from Czechoslovakia.

September 9, 2018 / Cult

Invitation Au Voyage is a film that stays with you for a long time. The story involves a pop singer who dies, electrocuted in a tub of milk. Her twin brother/lover drains the milk into bottles, stuffs her body in a cello case, straps it to the top of his car and embarks on a road trip of the strangest kind.