1972 National Board of Review – Best Foreign Language Films Winner
Bed & Board
Antoine Doinel works dying flowers in the courtyard outside his apartment. He is married to Christine, who is pregnant. He has an affair with a Japanese woman, jeopardising his marriage.
Chloe in the Afternoon
Though he has an adoring wife, a bourgeois man is still tempted to pursue other women.
Claire’s Knee
On lakeside summer holiday, a conflicted older man is dared to have a flirt with two beautiful teenage stepsisters despite his betrothal to a diplomat’s daughter and the fact that the girls have boyfriends.
Claire’s Knee
On lakeside summer holiday, a conflicted older man is dared to have a flirt with two beautiful teenage stepsisters despite his betrothal to a diplomat’s daughter and the fact that the girls have boyfriends.
Dyadya Vanya
A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased; her mother and brother still …
The Clowns
A ragout of real memories and mockumentary, as Fellini explores a childhood obsession: circus clowns.
The Conformist
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.
The Emigrants
In the middle of the 19th century, Kristina and Karl-Oskar live in a small rural village in Smaaland (southern Sweden). They get married and try to make a living on a small spot of land. …
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
The story of the Finzi-Continis, a noble family of Ferrara, during the Jewish persecution in Italy’s 1930s.
The Sorrow and the Pity
An in-depth exploration of the various reactions by the French people to the Vichy government’s acceptance of Nazi invasion.
The Sorrow and the Pity
An in-depth exploration of the various reactions by the French people to the Vichy government’s acceptance of Nazi invasion.