Les Chiens
Alain Jessua’s film Les Chiens (1979) takes the paranoia inherent to the white bourgeoisie and carries it through to its natural fascistic conclusion. The xenophobia, racism, classism, misogyny and general… Read more »
Tag: Fanny Ardant
Marie-poupée
Marie-poupée (1976) is generally considered to be Joël Séria’s finest feature film. For Marie-poupée Séria re-teamed with actress Jeanne Goupil whom he had worked with on the far better known… Read more »
Nathalie…
I saw Les Innocentes (2016) when it came out and now having seen Nathalie…(2003) as well I am convinced that writer/director Anne Fontaine deserves more serious attention, at least here… Read more »
Beyond The Clouds
“Memories of movies are strand over strand with memories of my life. During the quarter of a century (roughly from 1935 to 1960) in which going to the movies was… Read more »
La vie est un roman
La vie est un roman (1983) opens in 1914, just before the outbreak of WWI. Count Forbek (Ruggero Raimondi) has assembled his closest friends, a collective of France’s most esteemed… Read more »
Mélo
Alain Resnais is a difficult figure to place within the world of the cinema. He is most certainly an auteur, an intellectual, and a humanist all at once, imbuing his… Read more »
