George Franju’s perverse and poetic French classic is at once lyrical, haunting, and deviant, an elegantly horrifying classic of sadism and shadowy grace.
A teenage street urchin in an alternate reality Paris battles a mysterious organization kidnapping the greatest minds in the world in this playful fantasy fable.
Pierre Morel’s twist on ‘Escape From New York’ set in a near-future Paris is a lean, clean, B-movie action machine fueled by adrenaline and indignation.
Arnaud Desplechin’s mercurial, knotty and cinematically vibrant drama of family dysfunction stirred up over a Christmas gathering is a film that pulses with human life in all its terrible and beautiful irrationality.
Claire Denis’s vivid and visceral thriller stars Michel Subor as a grizzled old lone wolf whose globetrotting odyssey is strewn thorugh with contradictions, conundrums, and fantasies.
Danielle Darrieux, Charles Boyer, and Vittorio De Sica star in this elegant drama of romance as an elaborate dance played out in a society where appearances are everything. It placed in the number 90 spot in the 2022 Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time poll.
Max Ophuls directs this delicate, graceful romantic classic, a celebration of love and desire and passion and folly through the course of lovers as they change partners and continue the dance of romance.
