Deadly Games aka Dial Code Santa Claus
Probably most famous for being considered the French—and more violent and traumatic—Home Alone (which came a year later), Deadly Games is a wild, visually inventive Christmas thriller that stands on its own.
Inside
If there was a prize for the worst Christmas Eve in film history, it would easily go to grieving young mom-to-be Sarah (Alysson Paradis).
Blue Beard
Blue Beard is a glutton. He likes food and female orifices, in that order, which doesn’t mean he doesn’t have a major thing for the latter in this early 1901 French-film dazzler by Georges Méliès.
Trouble Every Day
Trouble Every Day (2001) opens with Tindersticks’ swooning, doomy song of the same name enveloping the image of two figures—neither of whom are seen again—making out in the back seat of a car, their hands and mouths drifting toward what we imagine to be an inaugural sexual encounter.
The Strangler
When Paul Vecchiali passed away early this year at the age of 92, he left behind a prolific legacy of films.