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Genèse This 2018 film from Quebecois director Philippe Lesage played as part of the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s 2019 New Director New Films series and is now available for rent on Prime Video.  The opening scene, lifted almost verbatim from Diane Kury’s wonderful 1977 film Diabolo Menthe, introduces Guillaume Bonnet, played by Theodore Pellerin,Continue reading “Genese”

Imagine a world in which an uncertain 16-year old girl can sleep with a different boy every night without being coerced or humiliated or having her feelings hurt deeply or getting a disease or becoming pregnant.  Well – that world is Quebec – at least according to writer Catherine Leger and director Sophie Lorain whoseContinue reading “Charlotte a du Fun”

This low-key drama from 2014 about a young working-class woman’s journey of self-discovery which takes her from crafter to artist is streaming on Amazon Prime.  Sensitively written and directed by Julie Lopes Curval who scored a minor art house hit in 2002 with Seaside for which she won the Camera D’Or at Cannes, High SocietyContinue reading “High Society”

This 2018 Rom-com from writer – director Louis Garrel, who also stars, had a short US theatrical run in the Summer of 2019 and is now available to stream on numerous platforms including Amazon Prime and YouTube.  Garrel, who was introduced to American Audiences as the lucky guy who marries Jo March in Greta Gerwig’sContinue reading “A Faithful Man”

Well – this is something interesting.  A three-part television series from Director Laetitia Masson streaming on Amazon Prime.  The director’s first film, En Avoir ou Pas, made an impression on me when I saw it theatrically in 1996.  After such a promising debut – which introduced audiences to the then relatively unknown Sandrine Kimberlain –Continue reading “Aurore (series)”

This documentary, shot in beautiful Cinemascope in the late 60’s and early 70’s, details the rural Burgundy life of 80 something blacksmith Jules and his wife Felice, relatives of the film’s director Dominique Benicheti. It received its first American commercial release in a restored version shown at Film Forum in 2013 and is now streamingContinue reading “Cousin Jules”

This 2017 Franco-Grec production by director Tony Gatlif is streaming on Amazon under the title Journey from Greece. I’d never heard of it before stumbling upon it while searching through Amazon Prime for something to watch. I hit the jackpot with this one. The sort of needle in the haystack I’m always hoping to find.Continue reading “Djam (Journey from Greece)”

This 2018 film directed by Romain Laguna and starring Zea Duprez is available to stream for free on Amazon Prime. I became aware of it because it played in the 2019 Rendez-vous with French Cinema https://www.filmlinc.org/daily/rendez-vous-with-french-cinema-2019-lineup/ festival at Lincoln Center. This festival is super well curated – though the anchor films with big stars byContinue reading “Les Meteorites”