Anne Consigny
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The last years of the great French painter Vincent van Gogh are dramatized. The focus is on the time the artist spent in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise, France. The art of painting itself and the painter's relationship with the concept of infinity are central themes. Not an exhaustive overview of all events in the final years of Van Gogh's life, but it focuses on key elements the artist experienced as he struggled with mental turmoil and produced some...
2) Elle
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Michèle seems indestructible. Head of a successful video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life as to business. Being attacked in her home by an unknown assailant changes Michèle's life forever. When she resolutely tracks the man down, they are both drawn into a curious and thrilling game--a game that may, at any moment, spiral out of control.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
The French editor of Elle magazine, Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
Series
Criterion collection volume 492
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Appears on list
Description
Junon is the matriarch of the troubled Vuillard family, who come together at Christmas after she learns she needs a bone marrow transplant from a blood relative. The Vuillard's shared history of physical and mental illness, estrangement, self harm, and loss doesn't lead itself to the idea of a cheerful holiday season. Hopefully the Christmastime reunion, a scheme concocted by three of the youngest family members, will finally bring peace to their...
5) John Rabe
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Deutsch
Description
Tells the story of a German businessman who rescued more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanking Massacre in China by courageously negotiating a safety zone to protect innocent civilians from the Japanese Army. Drawing from John Rabe's 1937 diaries as source material, Florian Gallenberger has crafted a portrait of a man revered as a saint in China to this day and yet never rewarded for his courage during his lifetime.
6) Wild grass
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Français
Description
A lost wallet opens the door to Georges and Marguerite's romantic adventure. After examining the ID of its owner, it is not a simple matter for Georges to turn the wallet he has found into the police. Nor can Marguerite retrieve her wallet without being piqued with curiosity about the person who found it. As George and Marguerite navigate the social protocols of giving and acknowledging thanks, turbulence enters their everyday lives.
7) Rapt
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
Stanislas Graff, a powerful industrialist, is kidnapped one morning from in front of his building by a group of gangsters. So begins a nightmare where he's humiliated, abused, and treated inhumanely. Although he resists, allowing his kidnappers no hold over him, he accepts everything without rebelling or any kind of cry or complaint; he responds with dignity to barbarity. Outside, his world slowly collapses when his true nature is revealed.
8) The returned
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Description
A seemingly random group of people find themselves in a state of confusion as they attempt to return home. What they don't know is that they have been dead for several years, and no one is expecting them back. Buried secrets emerge as they grapple with reality, struggling to reintegrate with their friends and families. But they aren't the only ones back from the dead. Their arrival coincides with a series of gruesome murders that resembles the work...
Publisher
Indiepix Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In a small New York apartment he shares with his wife, Leeward, an unusual and talented musician, composes songs with instruments he makes from his three year old daughter's toys. Lilas, a young French video maker, drags her suitcase from artists' squats to hip galleries, hoping to break into the selective contemporary art scene. Their meeting could be the very thing that drives them to make their dreams come true.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
In the wake of season one's climatic wave, the residents of the town adjust to the new order of life and the repercussions of the horde's appearance. Season two picks up after six months have gone by since the returned left with Simon, Camille and her mother, and Julie, along with the mysterious boy Victor.
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Français
Description
The French editor of Elle magazine, Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
Pub. Date
2008
Language
Français
Description
Portrays the French editor of Elle magazine, Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.