Rudi Rosenberg – MRQE

Aristos, Les

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The Arbac de Neuvilles are one of the oldest families in France. They have inhabited their ancient château for fifty-two generations and are proud of their noble ancestry. But today they are stone broke. When a bailiff turns up notifying them that they owe two million euros in back taxes, these proud aristocrats are understandably shaken to the core of their ancestral seat. Just how are they to find this amount of money when none of them has any capacity for work?

Le Tango des Rashevski

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Adolphe ‘Dolfo’ Rashevski travels to Israel with grandson Ric, but his brother, orthodox rabbi Samuel ‘Shmouel, refuses to come attend their fellow Auschwitz survivor sister Rosa’s funeral. Back in their home, the whole well-integrated family and their ‘gojim’ (non-Jewish and would-be) partners regularly wrestle with the meaning of Jewish blood, traditions and religion. For one it seems the way to gain a wife, for others the bomb under or the obstacle for a marriage. Yet love tends to conquer all but death.

Déjà mort

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

A young pizza-deliverer, Andréa, introduces Laure, a 20 year old girl he barely knows, to his friend David, a wealthy layabout who is looking for models for his porn photo agency. Eager for an easy escape from her dull life, Laure agrees to attend an audition with Davids boss, who proposes that she appears in hard core porn videos. She does not realise – until it is too late – that she has entered a world of hedonistic excess and brutal self-destruction…