The novel is a tipical multi plot story about the guests of an old pension in Paris. Christophe Dirickx and Frank Van Passel choosed to pick out one story line, ...

Elsschot's first novel.A short melodrama set in the Paris of the early 20th century, with most of the action in the pension Villa des Roses, run by the Brulot ...

Villa des Roses is a 2002 film by Frank Van Passel, adapted from the 1913 novella by Belgian writer Willem Elsschot and starring Julie Delpy, Shaun Dingwall ...

"Villa Des Roses" is beautifully filmed, and capably acted; but do not be fooled by its romantic sounding title. This is one long bout of misery. In this ...

Written in Rotterdam where Elsschot was working then, intensely polished by a Dutch friend and colleague and initially published in the Netherlands, Elsschot's ...

A beautiful, tasteful, peaceful home with exceptional hosts. We were greeted with a glass of wine, and the owners even made us reservations for dinner and took ...

Lovingly renovated 19th century French house with beautiful gardens and heated pool on the River Seine in Normandy.

Set in the village of Roussillon, within the Luberon Natural Regional Park, Villa des Roses is a private property with an outdoor pool.

Set in a down-market Paris boarding house before World War I, this novel is a masterpiece of ironic black humour. The Villa's owner, the energetic Madame ...