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“Thanks guys, and Merry Christmas!” It’s the end of the working day for Roger, a television cameraman. He leaves the Buttes-Chaumont to spend Christmas Eve with his family, at the wheel of his brand-new 2CV, and comes to the aid of a stranded motorist. Loaded down with gifts, this mysterious passenger takes him on an eventful night out…Read More »
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All those who, like me, see auction rooms as places charged with poetry and mystery […] cannot fail to be deeply moved by Jamais plus toujours. Not only because of the melancholy charm and subtle refinement of this visual poem, but because this happens to be a poem dedicated to the object, and it is high time that we considered the place of the object in our civilisation. – Claude Lévi-StraussRead More »
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A film about a love triangle between a theater director, an actress and an actor. Exchanges take place between fiction and reality, the stage and life. The actress one day leaves the theater director for the actor. But after a few days, she begins to doubt her new relationship.Read More »
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‘Recently appointed a magistrate, Jacques Arnaud arrives in Lancourt, a small provincial town which is under the control of Boussard, an scrupulous businessman. Arnaud’s first client is Dutoit, who rears German sheep dogs for a living. Dutoit reports that someone has been poisoning his dogs. Could it be the same person who has recently broken into his house to steal a black file drawn up by his friend Le Guen just before he died, a file that implicates Boussard in fraudulent speculation? Suspicious, Arnaud begins by exhuming le Guen’s body; the autopsy reveals the presence of arsenic…
-James Travers’Read More »
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Louis Malle unveiled the natural beauty of Jeanne Moreau in his breakthrough, Elevator to the Gallows. With his follow-up, the scandalous smash The Lovers> (Les amants), he made her a star once and for all. A deeply felt and luxuriously filmed fairy tale for grown-ups, perched on the edge between classical and New Wave cinemas, The Lovers presents Moreau as a restless bourgeois wife whose eye wanders from both her husband and her lover to an attractive passing stranger (Jean-Marc Bory). Thanks to its frank sexuality, The Lovers caused quite a stir, being censored and attacked for obscenity around the world. If today its shock has worn off, its glistening sensuality and seductive storytelling haven’t aged a day.Read More »
