Eleonore klarwein biography of christopher

So much of the acclaimed French cinema forced down one’s throat in film school – as full of artistic merit as it may be – is just so excessively male. With the exception of the great Agnes Varda, so many of the great French filmmakers from the 1960s and 1970s that we see cited on best-of lists and class syllabi are made by men and tell men’s stories; the women involved tend to be presented as objects of the hero’s desire, hatred, or both, rather than as heroes themselves.

For these and many other reasons, the Cohen Film Collection’s 2K restoration of Peppermint Soda, now available on Blu-ray, is an absolutely refreshing delight.

The debut feature from writer-director Diane Kurys, Peppermint Soda tells the semi-autobiographical tale of two Jewish sisters attending a strict school in Paris in the 1960s.

Released in 1977, it tackles everything from first love to political activism, from broken friendships to divorced parents – all through a female gaze.

It’s a worthy sister t