French Films

Jean Cocteau’s 1950 French film Orpheus transcends biological death to ponder on artistic death

Orpheus is a reworking of the Greek myth about a musician but has been remodeled around the life of a poet.

Remembering Anna Karina in one of her most notable non-Godard films, Jacques Rivette’s The Nun

Anna Karina was most famous for her work with Jean-Luc Godard, but there were other films too, like Jacques Rivette’s The Nun.