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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 185
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Français
Description
Five films featuring the enthusiastic, melancholic, and hopelessy romantic trouble maker Antoine Doinel, played by Jean-Pierre Léaud. The films take Doinel from his troubled childhood through myriad frustrations and romantic entanglements, from his stormy teens through marriage, children, divorce, and adulthood.
Publisher
Fox Lorber Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
Français
Description
Fourteen-year-old Antoine Doinet lives in a cramped apartment with his mother and stepfather, neglected by them and unlucky at school. Living an intense 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.
5) Jules et Jim
Series
Criterion collection volume 281
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Français
Description
Hailed as one of the finest films ever made, it charts, over twenty-five years, the relationship between two friends and the object of their mutual obsession. The legendary François Truffaut directs, and Jeanne Moreau stars as the alluring and willful Catherine, whose enigmatic smile and passionate nature lure Jules and Jim into one of cinema's most captivating romantic triangles. An exuberant and poignant meditation on freedom, loyalty, and the...
Series
Criterion collection volume 512
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Français
Description
Follows Nana, a young Parisian who aspires to be an actress, but a downward spiral forces her into prostitution.
Series
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
Cahiers du Cinema is a prestigious and influential French film journal. The selections in this volume are drawn from the colorful first decade of Cahiers, 1951-59, when a group of young iconoclasts rocked the world of film criticism with their provocative views on international cinema--American, Italian, and French in particular. They challenged long-established Anglo-Saxon attitudes by championing American popular movies, addressing genres such as...
10) French new wave
Author
Publisher
D.A.P. in association with Éditions Hazan/Cinémathèque Française
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
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.
13) 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.
14) Wake in fright
Series
Draft House Films volume no. 8
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba, plans to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney, Australia. But, as his one night stretches to five, he plunges headlong toward his own destruction. When the alcohol-induced mist lifts, the educated John Grant is no more. Instead there is a self-loathing man in a desolate wasteland, dirty, red-eyed, sitting against a tree and looking...
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
Starting in the mid-1950s, a group of talented young filmmakers presented a radically new vision of French cinema. Dubbed the "Young Turks" by Cahiers du Cinéma co-founder André Bazin, they overturned the studio-based industry of the day, creating films that were modern, political... and funny. The group included François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda, Éric Rohmer, and more. The short films in this box set represent the dawn of the New...
16) Made in U.S.A
Series
Criterion collection volume 481
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
This chaotic crime thriller and acidly funny critique of consumerism rummages through an intricate plot for a former lover who might have been assassinated, and also points toward more political cinema. Features include interviews, essays, and more.
Series
Criterion collection volume 564
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
日本語
Description
In this cool, seductive jewel of the Japanese New Wave, a yakuza, fresh out of prison, becomes entangled with a beautiful yet enigmatic gambling addict. What at first seems a redemptive relationship ends up leading him further down the criminal path.
18) Pierrot le fou
Series
Criterion collection volume 421
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Dissatisfied in marriage and life, Ferdinand takes to the road with the babysitter, his ex-lover Marianne Renoir, and leaves the bourgeois world behind. Yet this is no normal road trip: the tenth feature in six years by Jean-Luc Godard is a stylish mash-up of anti-consumerist satire, au courant politics, and comic-book aesthetics, as well as a violent tale of a romantic couple. This is a high point of the French New Wave, and was Godard's last frolic...
Series
Criterion collection volume 693
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Description
Hailed as one of the finest films ever made, it charts, over twenty-five years, the relationship between two friends and the object of their mutual obsession. The legendary Franȯis Truffaut directs, and Jeanne Moreau stars as the alluring and willful Catherine, whose enigmatic smile and passionate nature lure Jules and Jim into one of cinema's most captivating romantic triangles. An exuberant and poignant meditation on freedom, loyalty, and the fortitude...
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.
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