I only really stumbled upon Bruno Dumont's 2018 film "CoinCoin and the Extra-Humans" while flicking through the films on offer on Mubi...

The plot of the film concerns 4 displaced Europeans stranded in a (fictional) South American "one-horse" town of Las Piedras..

"Conte D'automne" (Eng: "An Autumn Tale") marks the final part of Rohmer's themed film cycle "Tales of Four Seasons"..

Alain Resnais' 1959 film "Hiroshima Mon Amour" rounds off a trio of films that I've watched starring Emmanuelle Riva

Trintignant's penultimate screen appearance was in Michael Haneke's 2012 film "Amour"..

Bernardo Bertolluci's 1970 film "The Conformist, based on a novel of the same title by Alberto Moravia and available to rent on YouTube..

Having discovered the Italian actress Stefania Sandrelli over my lockdown viewing I was curious to seek out other films she has starred in..

Mario Bava's 1965 Italian-Spanish film "Planet of The Vampires" seems to have generated a considerable cult following..

The German director Max Ophüls' 1952 film "Le Plaisir" is a trilogy of short stories adapted from the writing of Guy de Maupassant..

Continuing a thread of Alain Delon films available in a retrospective collection on Criterion Channel, I watched "Monsieur Klein"..

The French New Wave's fascination for the American "Film Noir" genre found expression in a number of films by different directors..

In "France" she portrays a glamorous news anchor and investigative reporter "France De Meur" with her own show..

Continuing with his series of films arranged into 4 part anthologies according to a theme, Éric Rohmer's 1990 film "A Tale of Springtime".

Produced in 1968, "Spirits of The Dead", (alternately entitled "Tales of Mystery and Imagination"...

For a long time Alain Delon was a name I associated with the Romanian Olympic gymnast Nadia Comăneci...

"Il Bell'Antonio" (Eng: "Handsome Antonio") is included in a line-up of films either written /adapted by or directed by Pier Paulo Pasolini.

As with many film directors, alongside their most well-known, career-defining films, there are films that I certainly wasn't aware of...

Vitti was able to demonstrate her range as an actress in the preceding trilogy and her role in "The Red Desert" is no exception..

Surfing The New Wave : "Le Beau Serge", Claude Chabrol, "The Fire Within", Louis Malle, "Le Bonheur", Agnes Varda.

I'm always up for a dose of Eric Rohmer's carefully observed films about the dynamics of relationships that spanned 3 decades..