Olivier Assayas’s Irma Vep (1997), about the filming of a Les vampires remake in contemporary Paris, is, on the surface, your basic backstage drama. It’s also a découpage of opinions, prejudices, name ...

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A provincial family with some money lives in a big house. Two brothers are epileptic, the mother is blind, the sister acts much more childish than her age (early twenties), and one normal, older ...

Considered one of the great lost classics of Italian neo-realism, this bleak drama was the debut feature of filmmaker Marco Bellocchio. Lou Castel stars as Alessandro, an epileptic from a large family ...

This ardent, muted Parisian melodrama, from 1993, gets its power from the director Philippe Garrel’s total identification with its middle-aged protagonists. Paul (Lou Castel), a paunchy, dishevelled ...

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