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French garage mechanic Charlie (Xavier Gélin) sabotages cars and takes the stranded motorists to stay at struggling owner the Marquise (Madeleine Renaud)’s mountain area hotel. But they get a shock when the baron César Maricorne […]
Autumn Tale [Conte d’automne] (1998) is the last of Éric Rohmer’s four seasonal tales, preceded by A Tale of Springtime, A Tale of Winter and A Summer’s Tale. It is the fourth film of his […]
Director Jean Renoir’s delightful 1946 French short feature film Une Partie de Campagne [A Day in the Country] – poetic, humorous and evocative – is a cinematic milestone. Set in 1860, Renoir’s carefully constructed, exquisitely […]
Director Lewis Gilbert’s 1961 The Greengage Summer [Loss of Innocence] is an engagingly old-fashioned romantic rites-of-passage tale by Rumer (Black Narcissus) Godden about an English teenage girl called Joss Grey (Susannah York) who falls in […]
Director Joseph H Lewis’s stylish 1946 low-budget noir thriller So Dark the Night stars dashing Steven Geray as Henri Cassin, the Parisian copper who comes a cropper when he takes a takes a rare holiday […]
A naturalist, Chevalier Gregoire de Fronsac (Samuel Le Bihan), and his Iroquois hunter buddy Mani (Mark Dacascos) are sent to track down a beast killing folk in the 18th-century French countryside. Co-writer/ director Christophe Gans’s […]
This tense and involving 1970 women in peril British chiller stars Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice and Sandor Elès. TV’s Avengers writer Brian Clemens and Dr Who writer Terry Nation pump some style into this creepy, […]
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