Hugues Quester
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
Description
A tale of doomed love between a lonely truck stop waitress and a gay, hunky garbage truck driver, whose boyfriend becomes increasingly jealous of the two. Sharing its title with Gainsbourg and Birkin's sexually explicit 1969 hit pop song, the film is an equally provocative depiction of an unlikely couple's torrid affair.
Series
Criterion collection volume 587
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Français
Description
A young woman is left devastated by the unexpected death of her husband and child. She retreats from the world around her, but is soon reluctantly drawn into an ever-widening web of lies and passion as the dark, secret life of her husband begins to unravel. The first of a trilogy by Krzysztof Kieslowski, followed by 'White' and 'Red.'
Series
Criterion collection volume 1206
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Français
Description
The seasons may change, but the follies of the heart are constant in this ineffably lovely quartet of films by Eric Rohmer, one of cinema's most perceptive chroniclers of the pangs and perils of romance. Set throughout France, Tales of the Four Seasons is a cycle to stand alongside the director's two earlier acclaimed film series, Six Moral Tales and Comedies and Proverbs. By turns comic and melancholic, breezy and richly philosophical these bittersweet...