AMERICA AS SEEN BY A FRENCHMAN (1960)
byA 1960 French documentary film directed by François Reichenbach about his travels around the USA.
FRENCH CINEMA
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (2019)
byOn an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the 18th-century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
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.
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…