Danielle Darrieux
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Français
Description
This is the first film of D.H. Lawrence's controversial novel, which premiered in 1955, five years before the uncensored novel even appeared in print in the UK. Danielle Darrieux (in the peak years of her stardom) is Constance Chatterley, faithful wife to her war-wounded paraplegic husband (British actor Leo Genn), whose fortune flows from a local coal mine. Everyone but she seems concerned about her loss of sexual fulfillment, and the possibility...
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
1934.
Language
Français
Description
Henri Pasquier (Pierre Mingand) is a rich playboy who enjoys careening around Paris in his shiny Buick. When his father forces him to sell the car, Henri suffers a class-related existential crisis, and falls in with a local car theft gang in an attempt to get his Buick back. In doing so, he not only learns about the underbelly of working for a living, but also falls for the sweetly seductive Jeannette (Danielle Darrieux).
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
Français
Description
Thomas is fourteen and perhaps because not much happens in his remote village in southwestern France, he likes to tell tales. But then one day, something really does happen to him, something that upsets his life and the lives of everyone around him. The lives of his grandparents. The life of his father Maurice. The life of Martin, a stranger and fugitive he meets one day.
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.
7) Madame de
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
Français
Description
The wife of a 19th century General sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off debts, which sets off a chain reaction of deceit that includes her husband, his mistress, and her lover.
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