With 3 whacky stories set in France & a galaxy of stars, Wes Anderson pays tribute to the NEW YORKER during its golden years.
Street Flow (2019)
In a housing development near Paris a college-student brother seeks to counter the influence of a drug-dealing brother upon the middle teenage brother .
One Nation, One King (2018)
The French revolution told more from the POV of the Parisian underclass & members of the National Assembly who debate the King’s fate.
Lupin (2021)
This complicated tale of the son of a wronged Senegalese immigrant seeking just through a complicated series of plots unfolds in Paris.
Fanny’s Journey (2016)
True story of how 13-year-old Fanny Ben Ami was put in charge of children fleeing from the Nazis through France to reach sanctuary in Switzerland.
Black Earth Rising (2018)
A complex story of international dealings with Rwandan Genocide Kate, raised by a white woman in the UK seeks to bring to justice killers of her adoptive mother & fellow Tutsis.
By the Grace of God (2018)
The true story of how a group of tormented men in Lyons France struggled to bring the Catholic Church to justice over their abuse by priests when they were boys.
The King (2019)
The rise of King Henry V, his friendship with Falstaff, & his leadership in the Battle of Agincourt is depicted differently than in Shakespeare’s plays. (c) Netflix
The African Doctor (2016)
French director Julien Rambaldi’s true story about freshly graduated Dr. Seyolo Zantoko (Marc Zinga) reveals that racial prejudice is not just an American or South African concern. Even in France, to which so many African American singers and musicians once fled for refuge, there are pockets of racism. Although in cosmopolitan Paris blacks were accepted …
Les Miserables (2018)
The epic story of an ex-convict, set free by the grace of a cleric, yet pursued as a criminal by a cruel policeman while protecting an orphan girl.