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1) Summer = été
Publisher
Fox Lorber
Pub. Date
1999, 1986.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
After a disastrous stay in the mountains, Delphine (Marie Rivière) ends up on the beaches of Biarritz where she meets Lena (Rosette Carita), a Swedish girl who smothers her with good advice. Delphine decides to go home after finding her efforts to have a good time were failing, only to meet the perfect stranger at the train station.
2) Z
Publisher
Fox Lorber Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
The masterworks édition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A Greek pacifist leader is murdered at a rally. Despite the official police report of accidental death, a journalist's persistent questioning leads to a full-scale investigation, revealing corruption in high places.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Summer of 1943. In occupied France, not far from the Spanish border, a famous old sculptor, who is tired of life and wars, finds the desire to work again on his last masterpiece when a beautiful young Spanish girl comes knocking after escaping a refugee camp in the South of France.
Publisher
First-Run Features
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Huppert plays Mika, wife of celebrated pianist André Polonski (Jacques Dutronc) and stepmother to his son, Guillaume, whose mother died in a carwreck on his sixth birthday. Their lives are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Jeanne (Anna Mouglalis), a young woman who has learned that she was almost switched at birth with Guillaume. Also a pianist, she harbours a suspicion that she may be André's daughter.
7) La Sapienza
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
At the height of his career, Alexandre decides to set off for Italy with the idea of completing of a book on Borromini. Along with his wife Aliénor feels her relationship with Alexandre is gradually slipping away. Along the way they meet siblings Goffredo and Lavinia, he is an architecture student, she a sufferer of panic attacks. A story of rediscovering the joys of life and overcoming anxiety.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray + 1 DVD (118 min. each) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm).
Language
Français
Description
A story of a successful jewel robbery in which the four thieves betray each other.
9) Marguerite
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
1921 not far from Paris. It is party day at Marguerite Dumont's castle. Nobody knows much about this woman except that she is rich and that her whole life is devoted to her passion: music. When a young, provocative journalist decides to write a rave article on her latest performance, Marguerite starts to believe even further in her talent. This gives her the courage she needs to follow her dream.
Series
Criterion collection volume 102, 143, 290
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
3 Blu-rays (308 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (55 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm).
Language
Français
Description
More than four decades after he took a razor blade to an eyeball and shocked the world with Un Chien Andalou, Luis Buñuel capped his career with three final provocations in which his renegade, free-associating surrealism reached its endgame. -- adapted from back of container.
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie: An upper-middle class sextet sits down to a dinner that is continually delayed, their attempts to eat thwarted by vaudevillian events...
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Abraham Klimt is interviewing the inhabitants of a Swiss village regarding the strange story of Rachel and Simon Donnadieu. One summer Simon leaves on a business trip, but soon after a doppelgänger arrives in the village purporting to be Simon. He appears to be a god in human form, and he pursues Rachel.
12) Therese
Publisher
A.F.C. - Films A2
Pub. Date
[1986 ]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
"'Therese' is not like any other biographical film of a saint - or of anyone else. It makes a bold attempt to penetrate to the mystery of Therese's sainthood, and yet it isn't propaganda for the church and it doesn't necessarily even approve of her choice of a vocation."--Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times (February 19, 1987).
13) À nos amours
Series
Criterion collection volume 337
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Special édition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (35 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
Français
Description
A sixteen-year-old Parisian girl embarks on a sexual rampage in an effort to separate herself from her overbearing, beloved father, ineffectual mother, and brutish brother.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (87 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Jean-Luc Godard adds to his influential, iconoclastic legacy with this collage film essay, a vast ontological inquiry into the history of the moving image and a commentary on the contemporary world. Displaying an encyclopedic grasp of cinema and its history, Godard pieces together fragments and clips them from some of the greatest films of the past, then digitally alters, bleaches, and washes them, all in the service of reflecting on what he sees...
15) L'âge d'or
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (63 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A surrealist tale of a man and a woman passionately in love with one another, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society.
16) Lourdes
Publisher
Artificial Eye
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
"Christine has been confined to a wheelchair for most of her life. In order to escape her isolation, she makes a journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees mountains. She wakes up one morning seemingly cured by a miracle. The leader of the pilgrimage group, a handsome 40-year-old volunteer from the Order of Malta, begins to take an interest in her. She tries to hold on to this newfound chance for happiness, while her cure provokes...
Series
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A son in denial of a serious illness. A mother facing the unbearable. And between them a doctor and a nurse fighting to do their job and bring them to acceptance. They have one year and four seasons to come together and understand what it means to die while living.
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (73 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Pierre and Manon are a married couple working in fragile harmony on Pierre's documentary film projects, the latest of which is a portrait of a resistance fighter. When Pierre takes a lover, he feels entitled to do so, and he treats both wife and mistress with disengagement bordering on disdain. When Manon catches Pierre in the act, her immediate response is to find common ground with her husband.
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The clockmaker of St. Paul is the debut feature of legendary director Bertrand Tavernier (A Sunday in the country, Journeys through French cinema). Adapted from Georges Simenon's novel The watchmaker of Everton (1954), it stars Philippe Noiret (Cinema Paradiso) as the unassuming title character, a man who begins to reexamine his life when his son is wanted for murder. Asked for help by the police inspector (Jean Rochefort, Man on the Train), he realizes...
20) Boy meets girl
Publisher
Carlotta Films US
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Two tormented souls, each left by their significant others, run into each other at a party.
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