93% (3)  Three Colors: Red  99 min,  R,  [Drama, Mystery, Romance]  [Krzysztof Kieslowski]  [23 Nov 1994]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 81%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 100%,   Metacritic: 100%,   External Reviews
Awards:  Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 17 wins & 21 nominations.
Actors:  Frédérique Feder, Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Pierre Lorit
Writer:  Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Agnieszka Holland (scenario collaborator), Edward Klosinski (scenario collaborator), Marcin Latallo (dialogue translation), Edward Zebrowski (scenario collaborator)
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  French    Country:  Switzerland, France, Poland
Plot:  Valentine is a young model living in Geneva. Because of a dog she ran over, she meets a retired judge who spies his neighbours' phone calls, not for money but to feed his cynicism. The film is the story of relationships between some human beings, Valentine and the judge, but also other people who may not be aware of the relationship they have with Valentine or/and the old judge. Redemption, forgiveness and compassion...
Rotten Tomatoes:   A beautiful model named Valentine crosses paths with a retired judge, whose dog she runs over with her car. The lonely judge, she discovers, amuses himself by eavesdropping on all of his neighbors' phone conversations. Near Valentine's apartment lives a young man who aspires to be a judge and loves a woman who will betray him. From these characters' proximity comes spiritual kinship and mutual redemption.
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82% (3)  The Double Life of Véronique  98 min,  R,  [Drama, Fantasy, Music, Mystery, Romance]  [Krzysztof Kieslowski]  [22 Nov 1991]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 78%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 82%,   Metacritic: 86%,   External Reviews
Awards:  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 9 wins & 8 nominations.
Actors:  Aleksander Bardini, Halina Gryglaszewska, Irène Jacob, Kalina Jedrusik, Wladyslaw Kowalski
Writer:  Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz
External Links:  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  French, Polish, Italian    Country:  France, Poland, Norway
Plot:  Weronika lives in Poland. Véronique lives in Paris. They don't know each other. Weronika gets a place in a music school, works hard, but collapses and dies on her first performance. At this point, Véronique's life seems to take a turn and she decides not to be a singer...
Rotten Tomatoes:   In this off-beat fantasy, the life of a beautiful French woman is mirrored by that of a Polish woman. The two were born on the same day in their respective countries. They look exactly alike and their lives follow an eerily similar course. Though they never meet, each is dimly aware of the other and of the effect they have upon each other's lives.
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66% (3)  Beyond the Clouds  112 min,  [Drama, Romance]  [Michelangelo Antonioni, Wim Wenders]  [27 Oct 1995]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 65%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 67%,   Metacritic: 66%,   External Reviews
Awards:  3 wins & 5 nominations.
Actors:  Chiara Caselli, Fanny Ardant, Irène Jacob, John Malkovich
Writer:  Tonino Guerra, Michelangelo Antonioni (screenplay), Wim Wenders, Michelangelo Antonioni (book), Soheil Ghodsy (French adaptation)
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  French, English, Italian    Country:  France, Germany, Italy
Plot:  Made of four short tales, linked by a story filmed by Wim Wenders. Taking place in Ferrara, Portofino, Aix en Provence and Paris, each story, which always a woman as the crux of the story, invites to an inner travel, as Antonioni says "towards the true image of that absolute and mysterious reality that nobody will ever see".
Rotten Tomatoes:   A mosaic of four stories about love and desire tied together by the story of a filmmaker who observes the relationships of young couples. The first episode, "Chronicle of a Love That Never Was," follows a young traveler to Ferrara who falls in love with a woman he meets, but falls asleep in his room and leaves her waiting in vain. Two years later they meet again, but he chooses to leave rather than consummate his desire for his ideal love. The second episode, "The Girl, the Crime," has the filmmaker wandering through Portofino and sleeping with a pretty young boutique owner who confesses that she has killed her father. The third episode, "Don't Try to See Me Again," takes place in Paris as two jilted lovers become attracted to one another. The final episode, "This Body of Mud," takes place in Aix-en-Provence and tells the story of a young man who falls in love with a young woman who has devoted her life to God and views her body as nothing more than a vessel to transcend.
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28% (3)  Dying of the Light  94 min,  R,  [Drama, Thriller]  [Paul Schrader]  [05 Dec 2014]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 44%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 9%,   Metacritic: 31%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Alexander Karim, Anton Yelchin, Irène Jacob, Nicolas Cage
Writer:  Paul Schrader (screenplay)
External Links:  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb  Website     Language:  English, Romanian, Arabic    Country:  Bahamas, USA
Plot:  Veteran CIA agent Evan Lake has been ordered to retire. But when his protégé uncovers evidence that Lake's nemesis, the terrorist Banir, has resurfaced, Lake goes rogue, embarking on a perilous, intercontinental mission to eliminate his sworn enemy.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Academy Award (R) winner* Nicolas Cage ignites a powder keg of action in this electrifying cloak-and-dagger thriller. Evan Lake (Cage), a veteran CIA agent, has been ordered to retire. But when his protégé (Anton Yelchin) uncovers evidence that Lake's nemesis, the terrorist Banir (Alexander Karim), has resurfaced, Lake goes rogue, embarking on a perilous, intercontinental mission to eliminate his sworn enemy. (C) Lionsgate
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68% (2)  Othello  123 min,  R,  [Drama, Romance]  [Oliver Parker]  [19 Jan 1996]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 69%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 67%,   External Reviews
Awards:  3 nominations.
Actors:  Irène Jacob, Kenneth Branagh, Laurence Fishburne, Nathaniel Parker
Writer:  Oliver Parker (adaptation), William Shakespeare (play)
External Links:  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  English    Country:  USA, UK
Plot:  Iago convinces Othello, The Moor of Venice that his wife, Desdemona has been unfaithful. Iago is an evil, manipulative character with his own agenda. A plot of jealousy and rage transpires in this classic Shakespearean tale.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Actor Oliver Parker made his directorial debut with this adaptation of the tragic play by William Shakespeare that abridges the original text by half and ups the quotient of sex and violence. Laurence Fishburne stars as the Moorish general Othello, who returns a hero after crushing an invasion attempt by the Turkish army near Cyprus. Pledged to marry the lovely Desdemona (Irene Jacob), Othello ignores the advice of his intended's father, who tells him that she may have a deceptive nature. Othello's aide Iago (Kenneth Branagh), jealous over the elevation of his rival, Cassio (Nathaniel Parker, the director's real-life brother) to lieutenant, begins scheming to make Othello believe that Desdemona and Cassio are carrying on an affair. On the slimmest of evidence, Iago manages to manipulate Othello's suspicious, distrustful nature. Played previously in black face on film by actors Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier, Parker's production of Othello (1995) was the first major cinematic production to cast an African-American in the title role.
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67% (2)  My Life So Far  98 min,  PG-13,  [Biography, Comedy, Drama]  [Hugh Hudson]  [26 Aug 1999]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 65%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 70%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Colin Firth, Irène Jacob, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Rosemary Harris
Writer:  Denis Forman (book), Simon Donald (screenplay)
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb  Website     Language:  English    Country:  UK, USA
Plot:  Memoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post World War I British estate headed up by a strong disciplinarian, her daughter, her inventor husband, their ten year old son, and his older sister. Through the household comes a number of suitors hoping to impress the young woman, including an aviator. When the elder woman's son shows up at the estate with his French fiancé, everything gets thrown into turmoil. The young boy takes a sudden interest in her sexual allure and his father is disturbed by his own non-Victorian feelings.
Rotten Tomatoes:   From the Academy Award winning producer of "The Mission, " "The Killing Fields" and "Chariots of Fire" comes a memoir of a most unusual family as seen through the eyes of one very adventurous child. At three, naughty Fraser climbed up on the roof. Now ten, he's going on an even more exciting journey... through adulthood. He gets his first taste of manly pleasures when his uncle's fiancée arrives: a seductive young French woman who teaches him the delicious truths about grown-up life - temptation, jealousy, passion and jazz - and gives his entire family a love lesson to remember.
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49% (2)  Incognito  108 min,  R,  [Crime, Thriller]  [John Badham]  [13 Mar 1998]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 66%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 33%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Ian Richardson, Irène Jacob, Jason Patric, Thomas Lockyer
Writer:  Jordan Katz
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  English    Country:  USA
Plot:  Harry Donovan is an art forger who paints fake Rembrandt picture for $500,000. The girl he meets and gets into bed with in Paris, Marieke, turns out to be an arts expert Harry's clients are using to check the counterfeit picture he painted.
Rotten Tomatoes:   This romantic thriller follows top forger Harry who is hired by British art dealers to fake a $500,000 Rembrandt. After making the fake, Harry's buyers take it to a London expert who reject its authenticity. The situation turns tense when guns go off and Harry takes a hostage.
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