Director: Jacques Besnard (1966)
Farce of the troubles of a restaurant when a President of a South American state is kidnapped while dining at his restaurant.
With: Louis de Funès, Bernard Blier, Maria-Rosa Rodriguez.
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Director: Eric Rohmer (1983)
Eric Rohmer’s deliciously wise and witty tale of two young women and their summertime romantic entanglements. Newly divorced Marion invites her cousin Pauline to spend the remainder of the summer at the family beach-house on the Normandy coast. Pauline observes adults weave love, sex and grand romance into a completely foolish (and [...]
Director: Eric Rohmer (1976)
Set in 1799 while the Russian General Souvarof is invading Italy, Eric Rohmer’s The Marquis of O centres around the beautiful, young widow of the title (played by Edith Clever). Left alone as her father commands a zone in the thick of battle against the Russians, she is captured and violated by [...]
Director: Eric Rohmer (1969)
Catholic engineer Jean-Louis’s struggle with his faith is renewed when he falls instantly in love with a woman he’s never met (Marie-Christine Barrault) while attending mass. A chance meeting with an amoral old friend (Antoine Vitez) the same night places him in a potentially compromising situation when he’s forced to spend the [...]