CLIMAX (2018)
byFrench dancers gather in a remote, empty school building to rehearse on a wintry night. The all-night celebration morphs into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn their sangria is laced with LSD.
FRENCH CINEMA
The Early Films of Olivier Assayas: DISORDER (1986) • WINTER’S CHILD (1989)
byFrench writer-director Olivier Assayas is capable of great things. Irma Vep (1996) is one of my favourite arthouse classics and Cold Water (1994) is…
COLD WATER (1994)
byA rebellious teenage couple escape the rigid order suffocating them, seeking sanctuary to cultivate their artistic expression and live free.
REVENGE (2017)
byNever take your mistress on an annual guys’ getaway, especially one devoted to hunting. A violent lesson for three wealthy married men.
GODARD + GORIN – FIVE FILMS (1968-1971)
byA box set with five innovative film collaborations from legendary French director Jean-Luc Godard and maverick film writer Jean-Pierre Gorin, shot in a revolutionary style in an attempt to disseminate explosive political ideas and shake up cinema…
MELVILLE • LE DOULOS (1963) • BOB LE FLAMBEUR (1956) • LÉON MORIN, PRÊTRE (1961) • L’ARMÉE DES OMBRES (1969) • UN FLIC (1972) • LE CERCLE ROUGE (1970)
byMany of the Jean-Pierre Melville films included in this StudioCanal box-set feature jaded men feeling the need to take some sort of action, whether…
LOST IN PARIS (2016)
byA woman visits Paris for the first time to assist her myopic aunt, but catastrophes ensue involving a homeless man with no social inhibitions…
LE PLAISIR (1952)
byThree separate stories about the same thing: pleasure.
THE LOVE OF A WOMAN (1953)
byA young female doctor decides to settle on a remote island, hoping to be accepted by the suspicious population, only to fall in love with a handsome engineer who wants her to give up her vocation…
AQUARIUS (2016)
byA 65-year-old widow and retired music critic, born into a wealthy and traditional family in Recife, Brazil, is now the last resident of the Aquarius, an original two-story building built in the 1940s…
LES DIABOLIQUE (1955)
byThe wife and mistress of a cruel headmaster conspire to kill him; but after the deed is done, his corpse disappears, and strange events begin to plague them…
DAY FOR NIGHT (1973)
byA committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, both personal and professional, among his cast and crew.