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 Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner (2010) Paris, today. Julia Jarmond, an American journalist who’s been living in France for 20 years, investigates the terrible rounding up of Parisian Jews and their incarceration in the bicycle stadium, Vel’d’Hiv, during the Nazi occupation of France. Tracing her way back through events, her path crosses that of Sarah, who was  ..Lees verder

 Director: André Téchiné (2003) June 1940. German troops are advancing on Paris. Odile, a widowed teacher, succumbs to the widespread panic and, with her two children, joins the exodus from the city. Philippe is on the cusp of adolescence, Little Cathy knows only that they are going South. After fifty kilometers, a German plane attacks,  ..Lees verder

 Director: Claude Autant-Lara (1947) An extraordinarily frank and understanding contemplation of a tragic love affair between a 17-year-old French schoolboy and the wife of a soldier during the first World War is beautifully and tenderly accomplished in the film “Devil in the Flesh”. The underage student Francois Jaubert meets and falls in love with Marthe  ..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

 Director: Eric Rohmer (2001) The story of Grace Elliott, a young Scottish aristocrat trapped in Paris at the time of the revolution. Despite her monarchist sympathies, she is intimate with the Duc d’Orléans, an influential Republican. She is suspected of being an English spy and her own safety is jeopardised after she reluctantly helps the  ..Lees verder