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Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (158 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Set in 1922, this film opens with Marcel Proust on his deathbed, looking through old photos and remembering his past. His own experiences gradually give way to the characters in his novel.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The lives of a writer, her boyfriend, a well-known doctor, and an attractive gay man all intersect when they are faced with the AIDS epidemic during the sexual revolution in the early 1980s.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (154 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Follows the lives of three men and three women as they become tangled in each other's lives during the brief run of a play in Paris.
4) Fat girl
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Twelve-year-old Anaïs is fat. Her sister, Eléna, is a beauty. Eléna meets an Italian law student, who seduces her with promises of love, as the ever-watchful Anaïs bears witness to the corruption of her sister's innocence.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 156 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Until a miracle changes their minds, church and state officials persecute a simple, ingenuous peasant girl who claims to have seen a vision of the Virgin Mary.
6) Bye-bye
Publisher
Fox Lorber Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
1 video cassette (107 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Language
Français
Description
Two young French-Arab brothers deal with the clash of cultures and generations in Marseilles. After a family tragedy, Ismael and Mouloud leave Paris and end up on the door step of their uncle and his family. Once there, the brothers are pulled apart, as one is seduced by the streets and its life of drugs and crime, while the other desperately seeks to rescue him without falling to its temptations.
Publisher
Image Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A Spanish revolutionary maintains his ideals even though he is warned he will be sold out. Aging, tired leftist Montand travels from Spain to Paris, reports to his political associates, and visits mistress Thulin.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Newly restored special édition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Dramatized adaptation of the classic fairy tale. Tells the fable of the kindly beast and the self-sacrificing beauty whose love releases the prince in him. Contains such visual displays as tears that become real diamonds and walls that grow arms to light Beauty's path through the castle of the Beast.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen édition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Four Parisian shop girls, Ginette, Rita, Jacqueline and Jane seek fulfillment and love. Rita has a fiance whose family is obsessed with social status. Jane has a boyfriend in the army, but she still enjoys herself with chance encounters. Ginette has a secret passion that keeps her away from her colleagues at nights. Jacqueline is lonely, but a mysterious motorcyclist constantly follows her.
10) Séraphine
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The true story of Séraphine Louis, a simple, devout housekeeper who in 1905, at the age of 41, began painting brilliantly colorful canvases. In 1912, a German art critic discovered her paintings while she was working as his maid. Tells the story of the relationship between the avant-garde dealer and the visionary cleaning lady, forging a testament to the mysteries of creativity and the resilience of one woman's spirit.
11) Elles
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A journalist researching an article on student prostitution for the French edition of ELLE magazine finds herself drawn to two young women. The stories these seemingly well-adjusted girls share force the middle-aged writer to examine her own life, family and sexuality.
12) Lola
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Drama about a woman who must choose among three men. Restoration was done in 2000 by Ciné-Tamaris.
13) Bluebeard
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Employs a double narrative, one revolving around two young sisters who are reading the tale of Bluebeard, and the other telling the story of young Marie-Catherine, child bride to Bluebeard, an aristocratic ogre with a reputation for murdering his wives. The Princess must employ all her cunning to outwit her husband and escape a potentially unpleasant fate.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Presents a series of humorous impressions and incidents at a seaside Brittany resort involving the accident-prone Mr. Hulot. Principally visual humor. There is no story: simply a series of comic mix-ups and casual caricatures. Soundtrack is mostly ambient sound.
15) Nenette + Boni
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A plastic surgeon, holed up in a Paris mansion, is obsessively slicing off the faces of kidnapped women and grafting the flayed skin onto the rotting countenance of his beloved young daughter, disfigured in an automobile accident.
17) Les biches
Publisher
Pathfinder Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
"Socialite Frederique encounters young student Why on the streets of Paris, seduces her and whisks her off to spend winter with the chic crowd in St. Tropez. When architect Paul meets Why, he too charms her and comes between the two lovers. Frederique then seduces Paul out of jealousy, but finds herself feeling real love. Paul and Frederique invite Why to live together with them, resulting in a ménage-à-trois beset by jealousy, madness, and ultimately,...
18) Cleo from 5 to 7
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A girl waiting for the result of a medical examination wanders around Paris thinking she has cancer; the film focuses on her ever-changing moods, and her search for answers.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A collection of seven sexy stories of love and adultery set against a Paris backdrop. Widow, seductress, model wife, or passionate lover, Shirley Maclaine stars in the seven roles of a woman's life in seven sketches.
20) Death watch
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Dual format edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in a future civilization where television does virtually anything to get high ratings, a director implants a video camera in the brain of a man he hires to shoot a documentary about a woman who is dying, without her knowing it.
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