Stéphane Audran
1) Betty
Publisher
Arrow Films
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
Français
Description
Adapted from the novel of the same name by Maigret author Georges Simenon, BETTY is a scathing attack on the upper-middle classes, featuring an extraordinary performance by Marie Trintignant as a woman spiraling into alcoholism, but fighting to redefine herself.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1962.
Language
Français
Description
An often-overlooked film from the early career of prolific French director Claude Chabrol (*The Swindle*), THE THIRD LOVER follows Albin Mercier, a failed journalist, is writing an article in Germany. When he meets a couple who seem very close, he becomes jealous and sets out to destroy their relationship. He discovers that the young woman has a lover and blackmails her emotionally. The restored version of the film was an Official Selection at the...
3) Blue Panther
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Français
Description
Before he is murdered, a spy passes on a jewel to the attractive Marie-Chantal. From then on, she is hunted by Russian and American spies and above all by the sinister Dr. Kha. Paco, a Spaniard, comes to her aid and rescues her from the most terrifying situations.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Danish
Appears on list
Description
At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food, the Oscar-winning Babette's Feast is a layered tale of a French housekeeper with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late nineteenth-century Denmark.
5) Bluebeard
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
Français
Description
Set at the beginning of this century, this true story is about Landru, a small clerk who puts matrimonial ads in the paper for moneyed, single women without families. He meets them, seduces them, asks them to come to his home in the town of Gambais, there he kills them after they have signed over all their wealth to him. Suspicious neighbors alert the police and Landru is finally arrested and guillotined.
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