Ann-Gisel Glass – MRQE

L’insoumise (TV)

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

La Revanche de Lucy

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After Polish-born writer-director Janusz Mrozowski, a French resident for the past 30 years, made a series of 30-minute films based on African writings, he was approached by Africans to do a cinematic survey of past events in African history. Filming in Burkina Faso, Mrozowski responded with this comedy about a dictator kidnapped from the present-day and taken back through the mists of time. There he meets the mother of humanity, Lucy, who teaches him the basics of sexual equality. By the time he returns to the present, he’s also received an education in 16th-century slave-trading and European influences on Africa.

Salut cousin!

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The comedy in this lively film barely conceals its darker, more serious undertones as it chronicles a young Algerian’s eye-opening introduction to the joys and travails of being an immigrant in Paris. Alilo has left his home to pick up an important suitcase for his employer. Unfortunately, he has lost the Parisian address. Fortunately, his cousin Mok, emigrated there several years before with his middle-class family before and is able to act as a guide. Mok, an aspiring rap singer, comes from a middle-class family, but chooses to live on his own in the dilapidated deteriorating 18th district, known as ‘Moskova.’ Mok characterizes the place as a haven for artists and intellectuals, but it is plainly just a Third World slum filled with tightly knit and colorful neighbors. Mok and Alilo have many interesting, some tragedy-tinged adventures over the five days it takes them to find the suitcase.

Sierra Leone

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After spending three years doing field installation work in West Africa, Fred returns home to his old neighbourhood, an industrial region on the outskirts of a major city. He is filled with confidence and optimism for a new start. He has brought home with him a pile of money that he made in Africa. But he never wrote to his wife Rita. He only wired her a money transfer every month. In the meantime, Rita has a new life that she now shares with a GI. Fred rents a room in the “Royal”, a sleazy hotel. There, he meets Alma, who takes care of the rooms and the guests and who is being kept by her sugar daddy – the aging hotel director. A passionate encounter with his old girlfriend Vera, who had high hopes for the two of them at some earlier time, dissipates into a brief carnal episode

La Tentation d’Isabelle

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Bruno devises a mean to test the love of his girlfriend Isabelle. Since Isabelle had been in love with Alain in the past, Bruno invites Alain to a surprise birthday party for her at a hotel — what better way to judge her feelings than to get them together? Alain arrives with his current girlfriend Lio. Soon after the two couples start the evening off, their polite exteriors deteriorate.

Hanna D. – La ragazza del Vondel Park

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Hanna is a girl completely abandoned to herself, is not at all inhibited sexually, and is attracted to the attention of unscrupulous people like Miguel, who takes advantage of Hanna, turning her to prostitution to obtain her drug fix. Until she meets Alex, a young man with a sincere affection for Hanna.

Rats – Notte di terrore

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

One hundred years after a nuclear war has devastated the planet, society has been reborn into two factions; the underground society and the scavangers above in the wastelands. A group of scavangers on bikes come across a town infested with flesh eating rats, and soon the gore is spilling everywhere.

Désordre

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Three young friends steal some music equipment for their struggling post-punk band and, in a panic, kill the shops owner. Assayas debut feature examines, with characteristic restraint and acuity, the psychological fallout as the band unravelsand each of its members grapple with their own feelings of guilt, paranoia, and despair.