Sidonie in Japan 2023
While on a book tour in Japan, Sidonie Perceval, still haunted by the ghost of her late husband, begins an affair with her mysterious Japanese publisher.
Annie colère 2022
Annie becomes pregnant. Since she doesn’t want to keep the child, she meets a movement that performs illegal abortions in the eyes of the world. But, in the seventies, Annie…
Magaluf Ghost Town 2021
Strange things are happening in Magaluf, Mallorca: the smell of piss and blood, police cars and ambulances cruising up and down the streets with no one paying them any mind,…
Smoking Causes Coughing 2022
A group of vigilantes called the “tobacco-forces” is falling apart. To rebuild team spirit, their leader suggests that they meet for a week-long retreat, before returning to save the world.
Boutchou 2020
Heavy Duty 2019
This is the story of a guy who goes too fast and a big guy who is too slow. Foster meets Taupin. All this would be trivial if one of…
More Than Ever 2022
Hélène and Mathieu have been happy together for many years. The bond between them is deep. Faced with an existential decision, Hélène travels alone to Norway to seek peace and…
Les sorcières à Hollywood 2020
Having found Cinema Red: Natives & Horror (2019-also reviewed) to be an interesting swift doc about Native Americans in Horror cinema,I was happy to spot the online Soho Horror Film…
Monsieur Mayonnaise 2016
Monsieur Mayonnaise is an artist’s epic adventure into his family’s secret past. Australian artist and film-maker, Philippe Mora, investigates his father’s clandestine role in the French Résistance in WW2 and…
Mama Africa 2011
9 Days in Raqqa 2020
Leila Mustapha is Kurdish and Syrian. Her fight is Raqqa, the former capital of the Islamic state of three hundred thousand inhabitants, reduced to a field of ruin after the…
Hollywood, No Sex Please! 2018
Deep rooted religious beliefs seemingly going back to the Pilgrim Fathers’ puritanism dominate a society which is entertained by violence no end on a daily basis. If it is true…
Godard seul le cinéma 2022
Jean-Luc Godard is cinema, its quintessence. Just turned 91, he has made more than 140 films. We hate him as much as we worship him. Where does his aura come…
The Big Fix 2012
A documentary that examines the April 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico following the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.
My Father Is a Cleaning Lady 2011
14-year-old Polo, son of a cleaner and a bedridden mother, grows up in modern-day France.
Cut 2011
Shuji is an uncompromising young filmmaker at odds with Japanese society. One day he learns that his loan shark brother, who had helped to finance his films, has been executed…
La fille du 14 juillet 2013
Le Parc 2016
The Well Digger’s Daughter 2011
Provence, the days before World War I. Rustic well-digger Pascal Amoretti, a widower, encourages fellow laborer Félipe Rambert to date his virgin eldest daughter Patricia, the only of his five…
Le plein de super 1976
Dear Prudence 2010
Atom Age Vampire 1960
A stripper is horribly disfigured in a car accident. A brilliant scientist develops a treatment that restores her beauty and falls in love with her. To preserve her appearance the…
The Grand Highway 1987
The Great Spy Chase 1964
A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents…
A Night at the Opera 2020
Digging once again into the deep archives of 20th century audiovisual history, Sergei Loznitsa crafts this elegant, ironic mini-portrait of the galas of Paris’s Palais Garnier in the 1950s and…
The Pageant 2020
Every year since 2011, a unique beauty contest takes place in Haifa. The contestants are female survivors of the Holocaust. In the midst of this flashy spectacle, their personal traumas…
See the Sea 1997
Sasha, a young British woman, is living with her baby daughter at Ile d’Yeu, a peaceful beach community. A stranger appears. Her name is Tatiana, she’s passing through, and pitches…
Flickering Ghosts of Loves Gone By 2021
Inheriting a film collection of home movies after the death of a relative, a film director recounts his life and the women he loved while investigating some family secrets hidden…
Rue du Bac 1991
Simon lives in an affluent intellectual environment, headed by his mother Alice. Raphael, his cousin, belongs to the poor branch of the family, but Simon adores him. So he decides…
Tarr Béla, I Used to Be a Filmmaker 2013
An illuminating and extremely rare documentary profile of one of the great filmmakers of our time, Bela Tarr. Filmed during the production of The Turin Horse, his final film, Tarr…