Erotic – The American French Film Festival in Los Angeles

LA FEMME PUBLIQUE

Bruno Rony — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 15:04:46 +0000

COMING SOON TO THEATERS, BEFORE A DIGITAL RELEASE.

LA FEMME PUBLIQUE

| 1984 (Re-release in 2026) – 113′ – Drama, Classic, Erotic, Films & Literature.
Written by: Dominique Garnier, Andrzej Zulawski.
Based on the Book by: Dominique Garnier.
Directed by: Andrzej Zulawski.
Starring: Valérie Kaprisky, Francis Huster, Lambert Wilson, Patrick Bauchau, Giselle Pascal, Roger dumas, Jean-Paul Farré, Lucas Belvaux, Marianne Basler.
3 César Awards nominations (Best Actress (Valérie Kaprisky), Best Supporting Actor (Lambert Wilson), Best Adapted Screenplay).
In French with English subtitles. I
A Film Movement Classics release. |

Ethel, who makes a living posing nude, dreams of becoming an actress. Although her acting leaves much to be desired, she is noticed during an audition by the German director Lucas Kesling. He is preparing a highly personal adaptation of Dostoevsky’s The Possessed and offers her a role, soon making her his mistress…. She loses her grip on reality and descends into a hallucinatory world where art and life intertwine in a dizzying way. Presented in a new 4K restoration (40th Anniversary).

TROUBLE EVERY DAY

Bruno Rony — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 16:05:23 +0000

TROUBLE EVERY DAY

| 2002 – 101′ – Erotic, Thriller, Horror, Women Directors.
Written by: Claire Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau.
Directed by: Claire Denis.
Starring: Vincent Gallo, Tricia Vessey, Béatrice Dalle, Alex Descas, Florence Loiret Caille, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Raphaël Neal, José Garcia, Aurore Clément.
Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 2001, Toronto International Film Festival 2001.
In French with English subtitles. 17+.
An AMC+/Shudder release.|

I love you so much I could eat you… Shane and June are American newlyweds in Paris, but this is no ordinary honeymoon. Shane is a man possessed, desperately searching for his old colleague, Dr. Leo Semeneau, with whom he worked on dangerous experiments into the human libido. He and Semeneau bear the terrible living scars of their researches, and Shane is tormented by a ravening hunger that will not be quieted. As Shane searches for Leo, the doctor pursues Core, his wife, who has fled the prison of her bedroom. Shane finds her first, crouched over the corpse of a young neighbour, splattered with blood. He helps to put her out of her misery. Bewildered, June struggles to understand her husband’s disturbingly erratic behaviour from a handful of clues. Nothing makes sense. And before she knows it, their bags are packed and they’re heading for home. Leaving behind them a chambermaid in a silent hotel room, her lifeless body ravaged and bitten…

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THE LOVER (L’AMANT)

Bruno Rony — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:05:44 +0000

THE LOVER (L’AMANT)

| 1992 – 102′ – Romance, Erotic, Drama, Classic, Film & Literature, Period & History.
Written by: Jean-Jacques Annaud, Gérard Brach.
Based on the Book by: Marguerite Duras.
Directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaud.
Starring: Jane March, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Jeanne Moreau, Melvil Poupaud, Frederique Meininger, Arnaud Giovaninetti, Lisa Faulkner, Xiem Mang.
Academy Award Nomination 1993 for Best Cinematography. 6 César Awards Nominations 1993.
In English.
A Under The Milky Way release. |

Indochina, in the late 1920s. On a ferry across the Mekong, a French teenage girl meets the Chinese Man. She is fascinated by his riches and elegance, and accepts a lift in his limousine to complete their journey. Together, they enter a whirlwind of reckless, all-consuming passion, born from desire and suffering. A forbidden affair whose fate is already decided.

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DEMONLOVER

Bruno Rony — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 02:54:29 +0000

DEMONLOVER

| 2002 – 120′ – Drama, Thriller, Erotic.
Written by: Olivier Assayas, Shinji Aoyama.
Directed by: Olivier Assayas.
Starring: Connie Nielsen, Gina Gershon, Chloë Sevigny, Dominique Reymond, Charles Berling, Abi Sakamoto, Alexis Pivot, Thomas M. Pollard.
Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 2002
In French with English subtitles.
A Max release. |

Although not yet thirty, Diane has a high level job working for a multinational corporation run by Henri-Pierre Volf. In the logic of the diversification of its activities – from real estate to clothing design – the Volf Group is negotiating the acquisition of TokyoAnime, a Japanese company which produces a new form of manga, and its pornographic version, hentaï, in digital 3D images that will outdate and destroy the competition in this extraordinarily lucrative market. Two companies, Mangatronics and Demonlover, battle to obtain exclusive distribution rights to Volf’s new images on the Web. Mangatronics has recruited Diane as a kind of industrial spy to serve its interests by torpedoing the Demonlover contract from within. Should the links between Demonlover and various violent and illegal pornographic sites become known, they would dangerously weaken its relationship with the Volf Group, unaware of the existence of these secret sites. Diane discovers that the sites’ spies – in the form of her seemingly neutral, naive colleagues – have also infiltrated the Wolf Group, which in turn has its own spies keeping tabs. Her increasing knowledge makes her a danger to Demonlover. Soon there is no way out, except to be absorbed into cyberspace, of which she was perhaps already a part right from the start.

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EMMANUELLE

Bruno Rony — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 19:09:49 +0000

EMMANUELLE

| 2025 – 107′ – Drama, Erotic, Films & Literature, Women Directors.
Written by: Audrey Diwan, Rebecca Zlotowski.
Based on the Book by: Emmanuelle Arsan.
Directed by: Audrey Diwan.
Starring: Noémie Merlant, Will Sharpe, Naomi Watts, Cha Cha Huang, Adam Tim-Nam Pak, Isabella Wei, Andrea Dolente, Kai Hu.
Official Selection San Sebastian International Film Festival 2024.
In French with English subtitles. 17+.
A Decal release. |

Will Sharpe, Noémie Merlant, and Naomi Watts star in the sultry tale of one woman’s search for lost pleasure. While on business in Hong Kong Emmanuelle meets Kei, a man who constantly eludes her. Though she indulges in the many alluring distractions the city has to offer, she can’t shake their chance encounter. Will she submit to her basest desires to forge a deeper relationship? Audrey Diwan’s film, freely adapted from Emmanuelle Arsan’s novel, casts a female gaze on the intimate quest of the woman whose name still evokes one of cinema’s most provocative characters.

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ROMANCE

Bruno Rony — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 16:28:48 +0000

ROMANCE

| 1999 – 95′ – Drama, Erotic, Classic.
Written by: Catherine Breillat.
Directed by: Catherine Breillat.
Starring: Caroline Ducey, Sagamore Stévenin, François Berléand, Rocco Siffredi, Elma Colberti, Reza Habouhossein, Fabien de Jomaron, Ashley Wanninger.
Official Selections: Toronto International Film Festival 1999. Rendez-Vous With French Cinema in New York 1999.
In French with English subtitles. 17+.
A Strand Releasing release. |

A new HD restoration of Catherine Breillat’s landmark film Romance, which placed her as an audacious, boundary-pushing female auteur, establishing her as a provocateur who opened the doors to women directors taking charge of their own sexual ideals and imagery. This is the tale of a beautiful woman’s frustration with the lack of intimacy in her relationship, who seeks out sexual adventures in order to spark the interest of her lover, a self-absorbed male model.

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MY SOLE DESIRE

Bruno Rony — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 19:00:15 +0000

MY SOLE DESIRE

| 2024 – 117′ – Drama, Erotic, LGBTQ+.
Written by: Lucie Borleteau, Clara Bourreau, Laure Giappiconi.
Directed by: Lucie Borleteau.
Starring: Zita Hanrot, Louise Chevillote, Laure Giappiconi, Pedro Casablanc, Sième Milady, Yuliya Abiss, Melvil Poupaud, Céline Fuhrer.
Official Competition TAFFF 2023.
In French with English subtitles.
An Omnibus Entertainement release. |

Lucie Borleteau‘s modern fairy tale, My Sole Desire, opens with PhD student Manon fearlessly striding into a strip club to audition for a job… and in search of a gateway into her own desire. What she unexpectedly happens upon is a sisterhood of friends and lovers, strippers who have taken charge of their own destinies and created their own kind of sexual and personal freedom. Manon also discovers something she hadn’t counted on — a profound, uncontrollable love. To boot, the film’s no-holds-barred performances (often in the buff) by Louise Chevillotte and Zita Hanrot, are as fierce and audacious as they are carnal, and certainly cannot go without mention.