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  • Claude Chabrol – La rupture AKA The Breach (1970)

    Claude Chabrol1961-1970ArthouseFranceThriller
    La rupture (1970)
    La rupture (1970)

    Helene Regnier’s husband Charles, who is mentally ill, injures their son Michel in a rage. Charles moves back in with his wealthy and manipulative parents, who blame Helene for their son’s condition and vow to win custody of Michel. While the boy is in hospital, Helene rents a room in a boarding house nearby. The Regniers hire Paul Thomas, a family acquaintance who needs money, to find dirt on Helene before the court hearing on custody. Paul moves into the boarding house and, with the help of his girlfriend Sonia, who rarely wears clothes, plots to ruin Helene’s reputation and then her very life.Read More »

  • Jean-Luc Godard – Éloge de l’amour (2001)

    2001-2010DramaFranceJean-Luc GodardRomance
    Éloge de l'amour (2001) (HD)
    Éloge de l’amour (2001) (HD)

    Synopsis
    (1)
    Someone we hear but don’t see talks of a project entitled Eloge de l’amour, which deals with the four key moments of love: the meeting, the physical passion, the quarrels and separation, the reconciliation. These moments are seen through three couples: young, adult and elderly. Is the project to be a play, a film, or even an opera? A sort of servant or assistant always accompanies the author of the project.

    Adults pose a real problem. Unlike old people or young people, an adult is hard to define without telling a story. The author of the project finally meets an extraordinary young woman. In fact, they had already met three years earlier when Edgar had by chance been present during a discussion between some Americans and the young woman’s grandparents. When he comes to tell the young woman that his project is on, Edgar learns that she has died.Read More »

  • Frédéric Rossif – Georges Mathieu ou La fureur d’être (1974)

    Frédéric Rossif1971-1980ArthouseDocumentaryFrance
    Georges Mathieu ou La fureur d'être (1974)
    Georges Mathieu ou La fureur d’être (1974)

    Summer 1971. In front of Frederic Rossif’s cameras, a young Vangelis Papathanassiou improvises live on screen using his self-made set-up of electronic instruments and percussions while George Mathieu is painting two giant canvases: The Election of Charles Quint and The Necessity of Hope. The great French dramaturge François Billetdoux writes a beautiful text specially for this opportunity.Read More »

  • Claude Chabrol – Juste avant la nuit aka Just Before Nightfall (1971)

    Claude Chabrol1971-1980FranceThriller
    Juste avant la nuit (1971)
    Juste avant la nuit (1971)

    Charles Masson, an advertising executive, is having an affair with Laura, the wife of his best friend, the architect François Tellier. Charles strangles Laura when one of their S&M games goes too far. Dazed, Charles walks out of the borrowed apartment in Paris and soon bumps into François in a nearby bistro. They drive back together to Versailles, where they have beautiful neighboring houses designed by François. The owner of the apartment had seen Laura and Charles together two months earlier, but she does not tell the police on the advice of François. Even though the police do not seem to have any clues to the crime, Charles has a difficult time coping with the situation, and trying to live a normal life with his two children and loving wife Hélène.Read More »

  • Emmanuel Bourdieu – Louis-Ferdinand Céline (2016)

    2011-2020DramaEmmanuel BourdieuFrance
    Louis Ferdinand Céline (2016)
    Louis Ferdinand Céline (2016)

    1948 – Louis-Ferdinand Céline in Denmark, in exile, accused of collaboration with the Nazis during the occupation of the France. He is accompanied by Lucette, his wife and his cat Bebert.Read More »

  • Jirí Weiss – Martha et moi (1990)

    Jirí Weiss1981-1990DramaFrance
    Martha et moi (1990)
    Martha et moi (1990)

    Quote:
    A child meets his uncle, a Czech Jew living in the south of Germany in the days before the 2nd world war. Without taking care of social prejudices, the uncle marries Martha, his servant. When the Nazis come to the power the young and the couple move to Prague. Then is Martha who defends her marriage to a Jew against the society…Read More »

  • Jean-Luc Godard – Notre musique AKA Our Music (2004)

    Jean-Luc Godard2001-2010ArthouseDramaFrance
    Notre musique (2004)
    Notre musique (2004)

    Quote:
    Notre Musique, is an indictment of modern times divided into three “kingdoms”: “Enfer” (“Hell”), “Purgatoire” (“Purgatory”) and “Paradis” (“Paradise”). A unqiue blend of almost abstract cinema, fiction, and documentary. It opens with a montage entitled “Hell”, which shows real and fictional footage of carnage: soldiers, atrocities, war. As brief as it is, the relentless and strangely beautiful barrage of violence is enough to make anybody despair of the human race.Read More »

  • Nicolas Philibert – Sur l’Adamant AKA On The Adamant (2023)

    2021-2030DocumentaryFranceNicolas Philibert
    Sur l'Adamant (2023)
    Sur l’Adamant (2023)

    The Adamant is a unique psychiatric care centre, remarkable for its floating structure. Located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental health disorders, offering them care that orients them in time and space, helping them to recover or just keep up their spirits. The team running the centre tries to resist the deterioration and dehumanization of psychiatry as best it can.

    Nicolas Philibert’s verité-style documentary (a style he has perfected over his 50-year career) invites us to board this unique facility and meet the patients and caregivers who bring it to life every day.

    Winner- Golden Bear- Berlin International Film Festival 2023Read More »

  • Jean-Luc Godard – 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle AKA 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)

    Jean-Luc Godard1961-1970ArthouseFrance
    2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle (1967)
    2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle (1967)

    PLOT: In 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle), Jean-Luc Godard beckons us ever closer, whispering in our ears as narrator. About what? Money, sex, fashion, the city, love, language, war: in a word, everything. Among the legendary French filmmaker’s finest achievements, the film takes as its ostensible subject the daily life of Juliette Janson (Marina Vlady), a housewife from the Paris suburbs who prostitutes herself for extra money. Yet this is only a template for Godard to spin off into provocative philosophical tangents and gorgeous images. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her is perhaps Godard’s most revelatory look at consumer culture, shot in ravishing widescreen color by Raoul Coutard.Read More »

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