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La petite vendeuse du soleil
Warm-hearted hymn to the courage of street children. Sili wants to sell newspapers in the street, but as a girl she is a threat to…Published on: -
Secret défense
Film inspired by Hitchcock’s Vertigo. Rivette uses the stereotypes of the genre and cuts them off when the heroin Sylvie (Sandrine Bonnaire), a scientPublished on: -
Souvenir
The film investigates ways in which memory, history, environment and being misplaced geographically and psychologically determine consciousness and ouPublished on: -
The Servant’s Shirt
Intimate yet tragi-comic feature in which people in different hierarchical relationships force servility on each other in Sixties India when democracyPublished on: -
Plätze in Städten
Warm and melancholy portrait of the secondary school student Mimmi. She is lonely and closed, but the film-maker manages to get through to her in…Published on: -
Tapage Nocturne
An unpolished film with a dreamy beauty, Breillat again working from her own story of a young woman who falls prey to an all-consuming desire,…Published on: -
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Parfait amour
Breillat’s most commercial and romantic film, but nevertheless a searing exploration of love and hate, love and death. An older, attractive bourgeoisPublished on: -
Say Kom Sa
The mixed economy invades Vietnam. Veteran radical and film-maker Kramer returns to make a personal essay.Published on: -
Los taxios
Absurdist film about a Dutch couple who take a ride in Brussels with a crazy taxi-driver.Published on: