Roger Dumas – MRQE

Zarafa

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

Inspired by the true story of the first giraffe to visit France, Zarafa is a sumptuously animated and stirring adventure, and a throwback to a bygone era of hand-drawn animation and epic storytelling set among sweeping CinemaScope vistas of parched desert, wind-swept mountains and open skies. Under the cover of darkness a small boy, Maki, loosens the shackles that bind him and escapes into the desert night. Pursued by slavers across the moon-lit savannah, Maki meets Zarafa, a baby giraffe and an orphan, just like him as well as the nomad Hassan, Prince of the Desert. Hassan takes them to Alexandria for an audience with the Pasha of Egypt, who orders him to deliver the exotic animal as a gift to King Charles of France.

Le Premier jour du reste de ta vie

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

A sprawling drama centered on five key days in a family’s life.

J’ai toujours rêvé d’être un gangster

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

Told in four vignettes, this existential comedy relates the exploits of four aspiring criminals who hope to improve their lot, but find that they might not have what it takes for a life of crime.

Monsieur le député

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Satirical short movie

Bunker Palace Hôtel

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

In an imaginary dictature of a futuristic world, rebellion has broken out. The men in power scramble to the Bunker Palace Hotel, a bunker built long ago for just this kind of contingency. But a rebel spy sneaks in, and although her nature is very quickly suspected, she is left to observe the raving of the decadent power class, who keeps wondering what happened to their leader, who has failed to show up.

Masques

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In this deadly game of cat and mouse, Roland Wolf is writing a book on the life of game show host Christian Legagneur–or is he?

La Femme publique

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

An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky’s ‘The Possessed’. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her life, and in a short time she is unable to draw the line between acting and reality. She winds up playing a real-life role posing as the dead wife of another Czech immigrant, who is manipulated by the filmmaker into commiting a political assassination.

Fort Saganne

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

In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the military and is assigned to the Sahara Desert under the aristocratic Colonel Dubreuilh.

L’homme de Rio

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

French military man Adrien Dufourquet gets an eight-day furlough to visit his fiancée, Agnès. But when he arrives in Paris, he learns that her late father’s partner, museum curator Professor Catalan, has just been kidnapped by a group of Amazon tribesmen who have also stolen a priceless statue from the museum. Adrien and Agnès pursue the kidnappers to Brazil, where they learn that the statue is the key to a hidden Amazon treasure.

La Mariée est trop belle

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

A country girl is discovered by a Paris magazine, and becomes a top model.