Bernard Evein
Series
Criterion collection volume 716
Language
Français
Appears on list
Description
The story of Guy and Genevieve, young lovers who live in the seaport of Cherbourg. They are separated when Guy must leave the pregnant Genevieve to fight in the war in Algeria. While he's away Genevieve's mother encourages her to marry an elegant diamond merchant who fell in love with her at first sight. Set during 1957-1963. The dialogue is entirely sung in French.
Series
Criterion collection volume 430
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
Alain Leroy is a self-destructive writer who is enduring a treatment in a private hospital because of his alcoholism. The doctor only sees the surface problem and declares it time for Alain to leave the hospital. Alain resolves to commit suicide, but first he goes to Paris and tries to reconnect with some old friends.
4) Lola
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Description
Lola awaits the return of her lover who left her with child seven years earlier. In the meantime, she works nights as a cabaret dancer and dreams of a reunion with her long lost love.
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Français
Description
A musical about missed connections and second chances. Twins Delphine and Solange, a dance instructor and a music teacher (played by real-life sisters Deneuve and Dorléac), long for big-city life; when a fair comes through their quiet port town, so does the possibility of escape.
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Français
Description
In this musical melodrama set against the backdrop of a workers' strike in Nantes, Dominique Sanda plays a young woman who wishes to leave her brutish husband for an earthy steelworker, though he is involved with another. Unbeknownst to the girl, the object of her affection boards with her no-nonsense baroness mother.
Series
Criterion collection volume 717
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Language
Français
Description
A musical about missed connections and second chances. Twins Delphine and Solange, a dance instructor and a music teacher (played by real-life sisters Deneuve and Dorléac), long for big-city life; when a fair comes through their quiet port town, so does the possibility of escape.
Series
Criterion collection volume 715
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Description
A hypnotic tale of love at the roulette wheel as a compulsive gambler falls in love with a bank clerk on holiday.
Series
Criterion collection volume 73
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Français
Description
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman's life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.
Series
Criterion collection volume 5
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Français
Description
Thirteen-year-old Antoine Doinet lives in a cramped apartment with his mother and stepfather, neglected by them and unlucky at school. Living an intensely imaginative life of his own he gets into trouble and is finally committed to reform school from which he escapes and runs towards the sea, which he has never seen.
Series
Criterion collection volume 728
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Description
A psychologically damaged war veteran and a neglected child begin a startlingly intimate friendship, one that ultimately ignites the suspicion and anger of his friends and neighbors in suburban Paris. It becomes a stirring contemplation of an alliance between two troubled souls.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Description
In this musical melodrama set against the backdrop of a workers' strike in Nantes, Dominique Sanda plays a young woman who wishes to leave her brutish husband for an earthy steelworker, though he is involved with another. Unbeknownst to the girl, the object of her affection boards with her no-nonsense baroness mother.