Director: André Téchiné (1979)
Charlotte Brontë reminds certain episodes of her life with her father, the reverend Brontë, her two sisters Emily and Anne and her brother Brandwell. While the three sisters wrote novels, poems, their brother artist-painter fell in love with Mrs Robinson, seventeen years older, who, in spite of the death of her husband, [...]
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau (2003)
Set in 1940s France in the moments before the German occupation of Paris during World War II, Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s lively farce Bon Voyage combines a murder mystery, a political drama, and a series of madcap subplots including a secret scientific discovery and a gathering of socialites at Bordeaux’s Hotel Splendide. The result [...]
Director: Patrice Chéreau (1994)
A classic tale of intrigue and forbidden love, La Reine Margot is the powerful hit universally acclaimed by critics! Thrown into a political marriage of convenience by her ruthlessly power-hungry family, the beautiful Margot (Isabelle Adjani) soon finds herself hopelessly drawn into their murderous affairs. It is then that she realizes that [...]
Director: Jean Becker (1983)
In this tragic tale of misunderstanding, obsession, and increasing madness, ’she,’ a beautiful young woman (Isabelle Adjani) settles into a small town in the south of France with her introverted mother (Maria Machado) and physically handicapped father and soon becomes the subject of wild speculation because of her aloofness and at the [...]