france &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:france @settima@zirk.us Thu, 21 May 2026 20:39:03 +0200 La Femme Bourreau [A Woman Kills] (Jean-Denis Bonan, 1968) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-5krp <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" La Femme Bourreau [A Woman Kills] (Jean-Denis Bonan, 1968)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 20/div div class="occasion" 1943/div div class="img" La Femme Bourreau (1968)/div div class="caption" A dark-haired woman lounging on a bed. DP: Gérard de Battista./div div class="txt" "Hélène Picard, born in Lyon, May 20, 1943. A child in care, she is reported as a runaway, a thief and unstable." ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #JeanDenisBonan #MyriamMézières #JeanRollin #BernardVitet #GérardDeBattista #drama #crime #ExperimentalFilm #Paris #France #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

La Femme Bourreau [A Woman Kills] (Jean-Denis Bonan, 1968)

May

20

1943

La Femme Bourreau (1968)

A dark-haired woman lounging on a bed. DP: Gérard de Battista.

“Hélène Picard, born in Lyon, May 20, 1943. A child in care, she is reported as a runaway, a thief and unstable.”

#FilmDuJour #May #JeanDenisBonan #MyriamMézières #JeanRollin #BernardVitet #GérardDeBattista #drama #crime #ExperimentalFilm #Paris #France #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-5krp Wed, 20 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Le 15 mai (Claire Denis, 1971) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-p6hn <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Le 15 mai (Claire Denis, 1971)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 15/div div class="occasion" Thu/div div class="occasion" /div div class="img" Le 15 mai (1971)/div div class="caption" Claudia Morin in her silver dress showing up in Philippe Rouleau's office. The perpetual calendar behind her – Enzo Mari's Formosa from 1963 – tells us it is May 15. DP: Dominique Le Rigoleur./div div class="txt" "Of course, it's the 15th of May." ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #ClaireDenis #ClaudiaMorin #PhilippeRouleau #DominiqueLeRigoleur #ShortFilm #StudentFilm #SciFi #mystery #BookAdaptation #France #1970s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Le 15 mai (Claire Denis, 1971)

May

15

Thu

Le 15 mai (1971)

Claudia Morin in her silver dress showing up in Philippe Rouleau's office. The perpetual calendar behind her – Enzo Mari's Formosa from 1963 – tells us it is May 15. DP: Dominique Le Rigoleur.

“Of course, it's the 15th of May.”

#FilmDuJour #May #ClaireDenis #ClaudiaMorin #PhilippeRouleau #DominiqueLeRigoleur #ShortFilm #StudentFilm #SciFi #mystery #BookAdaptation #France #1970s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-p6hn Fri, 15 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Les félins [Joy House / The Love Cage] (René Clément, 1964) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-ldk7 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Les félins [Joy House / The Love Cage] (René Clément, 1964)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 14/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Les félins (1964)/div div class="caption" Barbara Hill (Lola Albright) going through Marc Borel's (Alain Delon) passport, which states Marc's date of birth as May 14. On Barbara's desk several curiosities, including a shrunken head in a glass case. DP: Henri Decaë./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #RenéClément #DayKeene #JaneFonda #AlainDelon #LolaAlbright #CarlStuder #SorrellBooke #LaloSchifrin #HenriDecaë #crime #mystery #comedy #jazz #BookAdaptation #France #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Les félins [Joy House / The Love Cage] (René Clément, 1964)

May

14

Les félins (1964)

Barbara Hill (Lola Albright) going through Marc Borel's (Alain Delon) passport, which states Marc's date of birth as May 14. On Barbara's desk several curiosities, including a shrunken head in a glass case. DP: Henri Decaë.

#FilmDuJour #May #RenéClément #DayKeene #JaneFonda #AlainDelon #LolaAlbright #CarlStuder #SorrellBooke #LaloSchifrin #HenriDecaë #crime #mystery #comedy #jazz #BookAdaptation #France #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-ldk7 Thu, 14 May 2026 10:00:00 +0200 Le Horla [The Horla] (Jean-Daniel Pollet, 1966) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-wm5g <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Le Horla [The Horla] (Jean-Daniel Pollet, 1966)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 08/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Le Horla (1966).png)/div div class="caption" A reel-to-reel tape recorder. DP: Jean-Jacques Rochut./div div class="txt" and subsequent days. "8supth/sup of May. What a lovely day!" ### – voice on tape /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #JeanDanielPollet #GuyDeMaupassant #LaurentTerzieff #JeanJacquesRochut #ShortFilm #drama #mystery #monologue #BookAdaptation #France #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Le Horla [The Horla] (Jean-Daniel Pollet, 1966)

May

08

Le Horla (1966)

A reel-to-reel tape recorder. DP: Jean-Jacques Rochut.

and subsequent days.

“8th of May. What a lovely day!”

– voice on tape

#FilmDuJour #May #JeanDanielPollet #GuyDeMaupassant #LaurentTerzieff #JeanJacquesRochut #ShortFilm #drama #mystery #monologue #BookAdaptation #France #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-wm5g Fri, 08 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200 Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut [A Man Escaped]... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-cjbl <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut [A Man Escaped] (Robert Bresson, 1956)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 2/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (1956)/div div class="caption" A hand with dirty nails writing on a scrap of paper with a pencil stump. It starts "Mai 2 Ma chère maman, Je suis à la pris[…]". DP: Léonce-Henri Burel./div div class="txt" "With nothing to do, no news and in terrible solitude, we were 100 unfortunates awaiting our fate. I had no illusions about my own. If I could only escape, run away…" ### – Fontaine\ /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #RobertBresson #AndréDevigny #FrançoisLeterrier #LéonceHenriBurel #drama #WW2 #biography #BookAdaptation #prison #JailBreak #France #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut [A Man Escaped] (Robert Bresson, 1956)

May

2

Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (1956)

A hand with dirty nails writing on a scrap of paper with a pencil stump. It starts “Mai 2 Ma chère maman, Je suis à la pris[…]“. DP: Léonce-Henri Burel.

“With nothing to do, no news and in terrible solitude, we were 100 unfortunates awaiting our fate. I had no illusions about my own. If I could only escape, run away…”

– Fontaine

#FilmDuJour #May #RobertBresson #AndréDevigny #FrançoisLeterrier #LéonceHenriBurel #drama #WW2 #biography #BookAdaptation #prison #JailBreak #France #1950s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-cjbl Sat, 02 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Les yeux cernés [Marked Eyes] (Robert Hossein, 1964) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-bgsr <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Les yeux cernés [Marked Eyes] (Robert Hossein, 1964)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 2/div div class="occasion" 1964/div div class="img" Les yeux cernés (1964)/div div class="caption" A typed request on official stationary dated April 2, requesting to show up at the police precinct on April 4, 1964. DP: Jean Boffety./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #April #RobertHossein #MichèleMorgan #MarieFrancePisier #AndréHossein #JeanBoffety #crime #mystery #FilmNoir #France #Italy #Austria #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Les yeux cernés [Marked Eyes] (Robert Hossein, 1964)

Apr

2

1964

Les yeux cernés (1964)

A typed request on official stationary dated April 2, requesting to show up at the police precinct on April 4, 1964. DP: Jean Boffety.

#FilmDuJour #April #RobertHossein #MichèleMorgan #MarieFrancePisier #AndréHossein #JeanBoffety #crime #mystery #FilmNoir #France #Italy #Austria #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-bgsr Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200 La Chambre verte [The Green Room / The Vanishing Fiancée] (François Truffaut,... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-07bp <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" La Chambre verte [The Green Room / The Vanishing Fiancée] (François Truffaut, 1978)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 17/div div class="X" /div div class="img" La Chambre verte (1978)-2.webp)/div div class="caption" A woman cries. Captions read "on March 17th,". DP: Néstor Almendros./div div class="txt" "Our past doesn't belong to us." ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #March #FrançoisTruffaut #HenryJames #NathalieBaye #MauriceJaubert #NéstorAlmendros #RogerCorman #drama #romance #BookAdaptation #France #1970s ★★☆☆☆/div /section ]]>

La Chambre verte [The Green Room / The Vanishing Fiancée] (François Truffaut, 1978)

Mar

17

La Chambre verte (1978)

A woman cries. Captions read “on March 17th,”. DP: Néstor Almendros.

“Our past doesn't belong to us.”

#FilmDuJour #March #FrançoisTruffaut #HenryJames #NathalieBaye #MauriceJaubert #NéstorAlmendros #RogerCorman #drama #romance #BookAdaptation #France #1970s ★★☆☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-07bp Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Paranoia [A Quiet Place to Kill] (Umberto Lenzi, 1970) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-ky1l <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Paranoia [A Quiet Place to Kill] (Umberto Lenzi, 1970)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 13/div div class="occasion" J&B/div div class="img" Paranoia (1970).png)/div div class="caption" Carroll Baker as Helen pours herself a stiff drink while a guy in lettuce-coloured pants struts in. She's deserves it. Damn it, we ALL deserve it! DP: Guglielmo Mancori./div div class="txt" "You represent everything I detest in a man." ### – Lily Harmer /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #JandB #whisky #UmbertoLenzi #CarrollBaker #JeanSorel #LuisDávila #AlbertoDalbés #GregorioGarcíaSegura #NinoRota #GuglielmoMancori #giallo #crime #thriller #Italy #France #Spain #1970s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Paranoia [A Quiet Place to Kill] (Umberto Lenzi, 1970)

Feb

13

J&B

Paranoia (1970)

Carroll Baker as Helen pours herself a stiff drink while a guy in lettuce-coloured pants struts in. She's deserves it. Damn it, we ALL deserve it! DP: Guglielmo Mancori.

“You represent everything I detest in a man.”

– Lily Harmer

#FilmDinner #JandB #whisky #UmbertoLenzi #CarrollBaker #JeanSorel #LuisDávila #AlbertoDalbés #GregorioGarcíaSegura #NinoRota #GuglielmoMancori #giallo #crime #thriller #Italy #France #Spain #1970s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-ky1l Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:03:47 +0100 Le Juif errant (Luitz-Morat, 1926) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-9t1p <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Le Juif errant (Luitz-Morat, 1926)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 13/div div class="occasion" 1682/div div class="img" Le Juif errant (1926).jpg)/div div class="caption" Antonin Artaud as Gringalet. DPs: Maurice Arnou, Raoul Aubourdier, Georges Daret, Karémine Mérobian & André-Wladimir Reybas./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #February #LuitzMorat #EugèneSue #AndréMarnay #GabrielGabrio #MauriceSchutz #ClaudeMérelle #JeanneHelbling #AntoninArtaud #JeanPeyrière #MauriceArnou #RaoulAubourdier #GeorgesDaret #KarémineMérobian #AndréWladimirReybas #BookAdaptation #France #1920s/div /section ]]>

Le Juif errant (Luitz-Morat, 1926)

Feb

13

1682

Le Juif errant (1926)

Antonin Artaud as Gringalet. DPs: Maurice Arnou, Raoul Aubourdier, Georges Daret, Karémine Mérobian & André-Wladimir Reybas.

#FilmDuJour #February #LuitzMorat #EugèneSue #AndréMarnay #GabrielGabrio #MauriceSchutz #ClaudeMérelle #JeanneHelbling #AntoninArtaud #JeanPeyrière #MauriceArnou #RaoulAubourdier #GeorgesDaret #KarémineMérobian #AndréWladimirReybas #BookAdaptation #France #1920s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-9t1p Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0100 L'udienza [The Audience] (Marco Ferreri, 1972) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/ludienza-1972 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" L'udienza [The Audience] (Marco Ferreri, 1972)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 2/div div class="X" /div div class="img" L'udienza (1972)/div div class="caption" Aiche (Claudia Cardinale) washing Principe Donati's (Vittorio Gassman) feet. DP: Mario Vulpiani./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #February #MarcoFerreri #EnzoJannacci #ClaudiaCardinale #UgoTognazzi #MichelPiccoli #TeoUsuelli #MarioVulpiani #drama #mystery #religion #Italy #France #1970s ★★★½ /div /section ]]>

L'udienza [The Audience] (Marco Ferreri, 1972)

Feb

2

L'udienza (1972)

Aiche (Claudia Cardinale) washing Principe Donati's (Vittorio Gassman) feet. DP: Mario Vulpiani.

#FilmDuJour #February #MarcoFerreri #EnzoJannacci #ClaudiaCardinale #UgoTognazzi #MichelPiccoli #TeoUsuelli #MarioVulpiani #drama #mystery #religion #Italy #France #1970s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/ludienza-1972 Mon, 02 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0100