Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is out now and the critics agree: it is very, very French. For the sake of comedy, I’ve put together a list of 33 obscure French films that you can dig into alongside ...

Payne had gotten the idea for a film about a character Hemingson describes as an "odiferous, ocularly challenged professor" after seeing the rare 1935 French film Merlusse.The unfilmed pilot gave ...