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Two aristocrats play seduction as a game by letter, in the last decade before the guillotine.

Quasimodo, Esmeralda and the cathedral Hugo wrote the book to save.

An elderly Parisian couple, a stroke, and a husband who keeps his promise.

Three hours of the Paris theatre world of the 1830s, made in secret under the Occupation.

Belmondo, Seberg and the jump cut; the New Wave arrives in one film.

Tati built a whole glass city to get lost in; a comedy with no close-ups and no plot.

Owen Wilson steps into 1920s Paris with Hemingway and the Fitzgeralds every midnight.

A butcher's apartment block in a post-apocalyptic France; Jeunet and Caro's bedspring rhythm.