A man hoping to win the favor of a King finds that his heart has gotten in the way in this lavishly-produced comedy-drama. In 1671, the Prince du Conde (Julian Glover) is a figure of French nobility who is deep in debt and suffering from gout. Hoping to buoy his fortunes and his reputation, du Conde wants to win command of the French Army in an ...
Pauline a la Plage is the third of French filmmaker Eric Rohmer's "Comedies et Proverbes." Pauline (Amanda Langlet) is the teen-aged cousin of the seemingly more worldly and sensible Marion (Arielle Dombasle). Both girls become entwined in amorous escapades while vacationing at the beach. It gradually develops that Marion is the one least capable ...
Le Beau Marriage, aka The Perfect Marriage, is the second of Eric Rohmer's "Comedies et Proverbes". Beatrice Romand (the adolescent star of Rohmer's Claire's Knee, now nicely grown up) impulsively decides that Andre Dussolier-whom she barely knows--would make an ideal husband. Now she must convince him that she'll make an ideal wife. Leaving her ...
French filmmaker/musician F.J. Ossang, who featured a dope delirium plus full-frontal apocalyptic audio attack in his black-and-white Le tresor des Iles Chiennes) (Land of the Dead), rebounds with the acid noir red-out of this French-Chilean road movie about a hitman (Pedro Hestnes) and a hooker (Elvire) who meet at a South American hotel and then ...
The recipient of the Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film at the 2005 Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film, director David Carreras' horror-flavored thriller tells the tale of a newly hired nurse working in a isolated mental hospital, and the darkness that emerges when her patients start whispering of strange happenings in the ...
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