The earliest big international hit of the great Agnés Varda follows a female singer on a nearly-real-time journey through the Left Bank of Paris as she waits on the results of a cancer test, but it’s actually about a lot of other things.
Category Archives: French movies
LA PASSION DE JEANNE D’ARC (1928)
Renée Jeanne Falconetti gives perhaps the greatest of all movie performances in this legendary silent film that feels like “an historical document from an era where cinema did not exist.”
BELLE DE JOUR (1967)
Luis Buñuel deftly portrays the inner sexual fantasy life of a beautiful Parisian woman in a way that the movies really hadn’t before.
SHOAH (1985)
An absolutely essential first-person historical document about one of the worst events in history.
LA REGLE DE JEU (1939)
A French masterpiece about upper-class romantic games, played blithely as the world teeters on disaster.
LES QUATRE CENTS COUPS (1959)
Francois Truffaut’s debut about his own wayward childhood still feels fresh today.
LA NOIRE DE… (1966)
The first film from Sub-Saharan Africa to make a big splash in Europe and the US, its story about the toll of colonization is very relevant even today.
