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 Director: Bertrand Tavernier (2010) Adapted from a short story by Madame de La Fayette (published in 1662), La Princesse de Montpensier is a tale of the passions and tragic fate of a princess, a rich heiress of a French kingdom under threat in the wars of religion of 1562. The focal point of La Fayette’s  ..Lees verder

 Director: Abdellatif Kechiche (2010) Paris, 1817, within the Académie Royale de Médecine. “I’ve never seen a human head that so closely resembles a monkey’s.” Anatomist Georges Cuvier is categorical when looking at the cast made of Saartjie Baartman’s body. A panel of distinguished colleagues applauds the demonstration. Seven years earlier, Saartjie left South Africa with  ..Lees verder

 Director: Christian Carion (2009) Moscow, at the beginning of the eighties, in the middle of the Cold War. Sergey Grigoriev, a KGB colonel disappointed with his country’s regime, decides to bring down the system. He makes contact with Pierre Froment, a young French engineer posted to Moscow. The highly confidential information Grigoriev passes to Froment  ..Lees verder

 Director: Josée Dayan (1998) In the port of Marseille, Edmond Dantès is unjustly accused of treason on his wedding day with Mercedes, and is sent to Le Château d’If, an island prison. Responsible are his two best friends (Mondego and Danglars) who betrayed him and the prosecutor (Villefort) who framed Dantes to spare the real  ..Lees verder

 Director: Roselyne Bosch (2010) On July 16-17, 1942, over 13,000 Jews were arrested in Paris and its suburbs by French police who were zealous supporters of the German occupiers. Most were kept at Paris’ Velodrome d’Hiver sports stadium; many were sent on to Auschwitz. The operation was ordered by France’s Vichy government. A movie about  ..Lees verder