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Masataka Kubota stars in director Takashi Miike’s romantic crime drama First Love [Hatsukoi] (2019) as young boxer Leo, who is unexpectedly knocked him out in the ring, setting him off on a chain of events […]
Director John Mackenzie’s 1983 British drama The Honorary Consul [Beyond the Limit] is based on the novel by Graham Greene and stars Michael Caine at his best and most convincing as the drunken honorary British […]
Director Mauro Bolognini’s Italian, French and German 1981 co-production Lady of the Camelias [La storia vera della signora dalle camelie] [La Dame aux Camélias] stars the formidable European art movie trio of Isabelle Huppert (in […]
Director Moshé Mizrahi’s 1977 drama Madame Rosa [La Vie Devant Soi] [The Life Before Us] stars Simone Signoret, who gives a great performance as a Jewish Auschwitz survivor and former prostitute who lives in a […]
The controversial 1985 Flesh+Blood [Flesh and Blood] is a gruesomely realistic sword and sorcery adventure movie, handsomely well made by director Paul Verhoeven, and starring Rutger Hauer as the medieval mercenary outlaw band leader Martin, […]
Simone Signoret makes her first big mark in French cinema with her role in director Yves Allégret’s 1948 Dédée d’Anvers [Woman of Antwerp] as the Antwerp hooker Dédée, who is enthralled by an Italian sailor, […]
The 1952 Casque d’Or is a dazzling example of the postwar French film, perfectly capturing the nostalgic poetic-pessimistic mood of the time. It won one BAFTA Film Award for Best Foreign Actress (Simone Signoret). Director […]