Laurence Masliah – MRQE

L’inconnu de Strasbourg

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

Madeleine is with her lover, Jean-Paul, when her husband arrives home and catches the two together. Madeleine kills her husband and tells Jean-Paul to flee before the police arrive. After Jean-Paul drives away, he picks up a hitchhiker. When the car, stolen by the hitchhiker, explodes, police believe the dead hitchhiker is Jean-Paul. Madeleine takes up with Jean-Paul’s brother, Bastien, while Jean-Paul, arriving in Strasbourg, is mistaken for the heir to a fortune. The detective on the case spends more time writing crime novels than investigating real-life crimes.

Hirondelles ne meurent pas à Jerusalem, Les

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

Both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are sensitively explored in the Tunisian-French drama. Richard, a French TV journalist has been assigned to do a political story in Jerusalem the night before Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat sign their peace accord. Richard is glad to go as it gives him a chance to see his girlfriend Esther, a psychologist. Esther’s father Moshe is continually tormented by his Holocaust memories. Hammoudi, nicknamed “Local Radio,” is Richard’s taxi driver and guide. He tells Richard the story of his family which was uprooted in 1948 resulting in the disappearance of his grandmother. Mysteriously, her picture appeared in a recent Arabic newspaper. Richard, intrigued, decides to center his investigations upon “Local Radio’s” story. As he delves deeper into their lives he discovers that the ancient rivalries between the Israeli’s and Palestinians is far too deep and complex to be easily explained away.

Hélas pour moi

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

This complex allegorical tale tells the story of mans quest for spiritual meaning. When God enters the body of 1980s filmmaker Simon Donnadieu, his wife Rachel realizes that something has gone awry, but chooses to remain faithful to her erratically-behaving husband.