Louis Garrel
1) Jealousy
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Louis Garrel (THE DREAMERS) stars in this enthralling tale of love, temptation and betrayal, directed by none other than his father, major post-New Wave auteur Philippe Garrel. After separating from his wife, Louis moves into a garret apartment with his fellow actor girlfriend Claudia (Anna Mougladis) as they struggle with fidelity and the temptation to give up their art for an easier life.
2) Scarlet
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Pietro Marcello, one of contemporary cinema's most versatile talents, follows up his dramatic breakthrough Martin Eden with this enchanting period fable. Shortly after World War I, veteran Raphaël (Raphaël Thiery) returns home from the frontlines a widower and father to an infant daughter. Raised in rural Normandy, the child Juliette (Juliette Jouan) grows into a headstrong young woman who dreams of greater possibilities. She seeks refuge in the...
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Eight years after she left him for his best friend, journalist Abel gets back together with his recently widowed old flame Marianne. It seems to be a beautiful new beginning, but soon the hapless Abel finds himself embroiled in all sorts of drama: the come-ons of a wily jeune femme, the machinations of Marianne's morbid young son, and some unsavory questions about what exactly happened to his girlfriend's first husband.
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« Part crime thriller and part romantic comedy, Louis Garrel's The innocent shows the dangerous and outlandish lengths two men go to for the women they love. Garrel stars as Abel, an aquarium educator whose mother, Sylvie (Anouk Grinberg), marries one of her drama pupils in the local penitentiary, Michel (Roschdy Zem). Once on parole, Michel attempts to start a legitimate life but soon reverts to his old ways, eventually roping Abel into one of his...
5) Funan
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Cambodia, 1975. The survival and the struggle of a young mother during the Khmer Rouge revolution, to find her 4-year-old son, torn from his family by the regime.
6) My King
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Acclaimed auteur Maïwenn's magnum opus about the real and metaphysical pain endured by a woman (Emmanuelle Bercot) who struggles to leave a destructive co-dependent relationship with a charming yet extremely self-centered lothario (Vincent Cassel).
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Foreign film collection volume France
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A young French couple asks an American girl to join them in this contemporary musical. The three walk the streets of Paris, party, read, and sleep together. Sometimes it's lighthearted, sometimes there are jealousies. When one dies, the other two must come to terms with death, new relationships, and possible commitments.
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Dive into the color and lush textures of the incredible life of fashion icon Yves Saint Laurent. Explore the mind of a creative genius, the intricacies that turned the haute couture label into a worldwide phenomenon and the glamour and decadence that followed his footsteps of fame and fortune.
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Cinema devotee Mort Rifkin accompanies his publicist wife, Sue, to the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain, worried that her fascination with her young film director client, Philippe, might be more than professional. Nevertheless, Mort hopes the change of scenery will provide a respite from his struggle to write a first novel that lives up to his impossibly exacting standards. His outlook improves when he finds his intellectual and cultural kindred...
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A young couple goes for a summer-long visit with a fellow couple in Rome, only to witness their friends' marriage start to crumble. Brooding painter Frederic has growing suspicions about his beautiful movie star wife Angele. Friends Paul and Elizabeth see the tension rise between the couple--and also begin to draw apart as Paul devotes more and more time to the needy Frederic. Will the tragic event bring Paul and Elizabeth closer, or will it doom...
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Twenty-one years ago, she ran away, And twenty-one years later, Carlotta is back from the void. But, Ismael has been busy rebuilding a life for himself with Sylvia and working on his next feature film. As Ismael's trials and tribulation unfurl, so too do those of his film's protagonist: idle, funny and reckless diplomat Ivan Dedalus. The character is a nod to the ghost of another of Desplechin's creations.
15) Le redoubtable
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Paris, 1967. Jean-Luc Godard, is shifting from revolutionizing cinema to becoming a revolutionary tout court. His female star is Anne Wiazemsky, writer Franȯis Mauriac's granddaughter, sixteen years his junior. Anne and Jean-Luc have been dating since 1966 and they marry this very year. She admires Jean-Luc's originality, intelligence, wit and boldness while he loves Anne's freshness and - admiration of him. But May 1968 puts their marriage to the...
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Film Movement volume 14, film 12
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"Admitted to a rehabilitation center after a serious ski accident, Tony ... becomes dependent on the medical staff and pain relievers while looking back on a turbulent relationship she experienced with megalomaniac Georgio ... Who is this man that she loved so deeply, and how did she allow herself to submit to this suffocating and destructive passion? For Tony, the physical work of healing may finally set her free"--Container
17) Little women
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"Writer-director Greta Gerwig ... has crafted a 'Little women' that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott, and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March, reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig's take, the beloved story of the March sisters--four young women each determined to live life on her own terms--is both timeless and timely."--
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Shortly after World War I, veteran Raphaël returns home from the frontlines to find himself a widower, and father to an infant daughter. Raised by her father in rural Normandy, the child Juliette grows into a lonely young woman who dreams of greater possibilities. She seeks refuge in the nearby woods, where she meets a witch who promises scarlet sails will one day take her away from her village. Reckoning with her future and swept away by a rakish...
19) Planetarium
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On the eve of World War II, two sisters, who are believed to possess the supernatural ability to connect with ghosts, tour through Europe. They cross paths with a visionary French producer while performing in Paris.
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"In season 5 ... JJA ... Director of Internal Security, has taken over managing the Bureau as Marie-Jeanne ... is testing her fieldwork skills on the ground in Egypt. The DGSE will be shaken up by rumors published about Malotru's ... fate: is he really dead? What role did DGSE and the CIA play? In the end, Malotru, dead or alive, will never stop confronting each one of his own dead ends, in Sinai, in Jeddah, Phnom Penh, Moscow, Cairo and ... in Paris."--...