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Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
Though happily married to his adoring wife, Hélèe, who is expecting their second child, the thoroughly bourgeois business executive Frédéric cannot banish from his mind the multitude of attractive Parisian women who pass him by every day.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
Français
Description
Vacationing at her summer home, actress Mado (Nicole Garcia) is joined by her lover, movie director Brice (Bernard Giraudeau), her son Julien (Robinson Stévenin) and his girlfriend, Lili (Ludivine Sagnier). Julien debuts a short film starring Lili, but Mado and Brice pan the film. Ambitious Lili runs off to Paris with Brice, who makes her a movie star. Years later, Lili contacts Julien when she hears he's about to shoot his first feature film.
4) Betty
Series
Publisher
KimStim, Inc
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
A beautiful, drunken and promiscuous girl ends a disastrous evening at The Hole, a bar catering to the twisted and outcast. There she meets the recently widowed Laure, an elegant retiree who lives alone in a luxury hotel.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005, 1960.
Language
Français
Description
Charlie is a timid café pianist who has given up his former life as a concert pianist, a career which had destroyed his marriage. However, events which he seems powerless to control force his involvement with a gang of crooks who once again cause him to be responsible for the destruction of his life.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
In a remote university town hidden in the coldness of the French Alps, a killer is sending a message. When the police commissaire, who is France's leading serial killer investigator, is called to investigate a grisly murder, he enters a world of secrets, lies and unthinkable horrors. Each murder to follow means something more, each victim a guilty conspirator in a grand immoral experiment.
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 742
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"It is often claimed that the French invented cinema. Dominating the production and distribution of cinema until World War 1, when they were supplanted by Hollywood, the French cinema industry encompassed all genres, from popular entertainment to avant-garde practice. The French invented the "auteur" and the "cine-club"; they incubated criticism from the 1920s to our own day that is unrivalled; and they boast more film journals, fan magazines, TV...
12) Cemetery man
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Francesco is a cemetery watchman whose job is to slaughter the living dead when they rise hungry from their graves. Following a tragic tryst with a lusty young widow, Francesco begins to ponder the mysteries of existence.
Publisher
Fox Lorber Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
Français
Description
Two English sisters at the turn of the century are in love with the same man for seven years. His inability to choose between them (compounded by his overpossessive mother), and the girls' own powerful passions-- both expressed and repressed-- create a painful, emotionally charged triangle.
16) Sans toit ni loi
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
Français
Description
An aimless drifter wandering through the wintry French countryside encounters violence, hunger, fear and cold, yet touches the lives of the people she meets with her own ideas of freedom.
Series
Criterion collection volume 74
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Français
Description
Mona, an aimless drifter in the French countryside, deeply touches the lives of the people she meets and confronts them with her own ideas of freedom.
20) Nenette et Boni
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
Nineteen year-old Boniface Pavone writes in his journal of the erotic dreams he has of the wife of the neighborhood baker. His estranged little sister, Nenette, reappears with a surprising revelation that will change him forever.
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