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: Jean-Luc Godard (1983)
Jean, a former filmmaker who lives in voluntary retirement in a Parisian clinic, in spite of being diagnosed sane, is visited by his niece Carmen who asks if she and some friends can borrow his apartment, ostensibly to do some film tests for a wealthy patron. However, this is a cover for [...]
Director: Maurice Pialat (1983)
With his raw style of filmmaking, Maurice Pialat has been called the John Cassavetes of French cinema, and the scorching À nos amours is one of his greatest achievements. In a revelatory film debut, the dynamic, fresh-faced Sandrine Bonnaire plays Suzanne, a fifteen-year-old Parisian who embarks on a sexual rampage in an [...]
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 [...]