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Series
Criterion collection volume 297
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
Français
Description
"Follows the donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a besat of burden, suffering the sins of man. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly." -- Container.
9) After love
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
Boris and Marie have decided to separate after fifteen years together. However, cash-strapped Boris is still living in the family home. When all is said and done, neither of the two is willing to give up. Now this apartment is a war zone and their situation a nightmare.
10) This is our land
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
An engaged but apolitical nurse gets involved in a far-right political party. Based on numerous recent events in France, it becomes about how Front National operates and how it is perceived by the French.
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
St. Marie-La-Mauderne is a tiny fishing village. For eight years the locals have stood in line for weekly welfare checks, remembering the good old days when the catch was good. A small company wants to build a factory on the island, but only if a full-time doctor lives in St. Marie. The situation seems hopeless until a young doctor in Montreal has an unfortunate incident with a traffic cop and finds himself on a boat to the faraway village. In order...
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2004
Language
Français
Description
William Faber became a tax accountant like his father and resolved himself to a life where nothing much ever changed. At least until the beautiful Anna walked in one day and mistook his office for the therapist's down the hall. Unsolicited, Anna begins to reveal intimate details of her life which include how she is seeking security by attempting to save her tumultuous marriage. William and Anna find a bond developing between them, one that only true...
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
Damien and Thomas are French teenagers from very different upbringings who go to the same high school but can't stand each other. When circumstances bring Damien's mother Marianne to invite Thomas to live with them, the young men are forced to coexist and work through their emerging attraction and complicated desires.
Series
Criterion collection volume 147
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The story of two lonely people who discover in each other the intimacy they have lost in their marriages.
17) Séraphine
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Français
Description
The true story of Seraphine 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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 110
Publisher
Janus Films and Home Vision Cinema
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
Français
Description
Tati portrays the endearingly eccentric character, Hulot, whose presence at a very proper French seaside resort provokes one outrageous catastrophe after another.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
Fed up with her abusive family situation, lack of school prospects and the 'boys' law' in the neighborhood, Marieme ... starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her style, drops out of school and starts stealing to be accepted into the group. When her home situation becomes unbearable, Marieme seeks solace in an older man who promises her money and protection.
Series
Criterion collection volume 695
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Français
Description
Adèle is a high school student who, much to her own surprise, plunges into a thrilling relationship with a female twenty-something art student. This intimate epic sensitively renders the erotic abandon of youth.
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