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Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
Directed by a former medical doctor, the film is a darkly comic portrait of a Paris hospital as seen through the eyes of a young intern, Benjamin who begins his internship at the hospital ward run by his father. Confident and determined to be a success, Vincent soon realizes that the reality of practicing medicine is a lot grimmer than what he had imagined. Vincent finds himself overshadowed by a more talented intern Abdel who is disadvantaged by...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
A profound masterpiece from one of the most revered filmmakers in the history of cinema, follows the donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations outside of his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.
4) Fatima
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
"Named the best French film of 2016 by the César Awards, Fatima is a brilliant and moving tale about what it means to be an immigrant today. It was inspired by the life of North African poet Fatima Elayoubi, who immigrated knowing little French and slowly taught herself the language. Fatima (Soria Zeroual) lives with her two teenage daughters in Lyon, and works cleaning jobs to pay their way through school. She is a woman pressured by her children...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
François' mother, Madame Lepic, hates him and she nicknames him "Poil de Carotte" (carrot hair). His father is more interested in politics and hunting than he is in him. In spite of the affection of his godfather and his friend Mathilde, whom he calls his "fiancé," young Poil de Carotte contemplates suicide. On a particularly difficult day, he attempts to hang himself. Mr. Lepic saves his life just in time and understands he is partly to blame.
6) Mouchette
Series
Criterion collection volume 363
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
A portrait of human desperation, as Mouchette, a teenage girl, must deal with tragic events and a broken family.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
The blockbuster French drama, chronicles the impact of World War II on a small village in central France. The German occupation changes the life of the village of Villeneuve forever, and as its residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking. In this gripping drama, ordinary citizens become patriots, traitors, Nazi employees or activists.
Publisher
Big World Pictures
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
A young couple, Felicie and Charles, meet while on holiday and fall deeply in love. In a fatal slip, she gives him the wrong address, and, as a result, he disappears from her life. Five years later, at Christmas time, Felicie is a hairdresser in the Paris suburbs with a daughter and two lovers: the successful Maxence and the intellectual Loic. She loves them both, but she says "there's love and love," and the love that counts is the one she still...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
At the turn of the nineteenth century, a humble artisan and his wife have a daughter, Marie, who is born deaf and blind and unable to communicate with the world around her. Desperate to find a connection to their daughter and avoid sending her to an asylum, the Heurtins send fourteen-year-old Marie to the Larnay Institute in central France, where an order of Catholic nuns manages a school for deaf girls. Based on a true story.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
Two luminaries of French cinema, Claire Denis and Juliette Binoche, unite for the first time in this piercing look at the elusive nature of true love, and the extent to which we are willing to betray ourselves in its pursuit. The film finds bleak humor in a cutting truth: everyone is, no matter the age, a fool for love.
11) La rafle
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
Français
Description
Dramatizes the true experiences of individuals caught up in the Vel' d'Hiv roundup. In the summer of 1942 the French government, on the orders of the Nazi occupiers, conducted mass arrests of Jews in Paris and herded them into the Velodrome d'Hiver and a nearby internment camp from which they were ultimately shipped to Auschwitz and executed. Over 13,000 victims, including over 4000 children, were subjects of this atrocity.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
When an unsuspecting violinist, the tall blond man, is misidentified by the head of a spy network to his assistant as the target of their investigation and a superspy himself, a series of wacky misunderstandings and silly situations ensues. As the assistant, his henchman fall all over each other in their misguided attempts to discover the alleged superspy₂s vital secrets, his best friend happens by and only further complicates things.
14) La verite
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
Beautiful, troubled Dominique Marceau came to bohemian Paris to escape the suffocation of provincial life, only to wind up in a courtroom, accused of a terrible crime: the murder of her lover. As the trial commences and the lawyers begin tangling over Dominique's fate, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Oscar-nominated La vřiť delves into her past, reconstructing her struggle to find a foothold in the city.
15) Monsieur Hire
Publisher
Pathé! Distribution
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Français
Description
"In a provincial French apartment block, Monsieur Hire endures a solitary life of dulling work as a tailor and vitriolic scorn from his neighbors. Hire's only solace is an occasional night out bowling and the voyeuristic admiration of his neighbor. ... When police discover the nude body of another young woman in a nearby vacant lot, Hire becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation"--Container.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
Sandra has just been released from the hospital to find that she no longer has a job. According to management, the only way Sandra can regain her position at the factory is to convince her co-workers to sacrifice their much-needed yearly bonuses. So, over the course of one weekend, Sandra must confront each co-worker individually in order to win a majority of their votes, before time runs out.
18) Final portrait
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The story of Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1200
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
The red balloon: A French boy named Pascal discovers a stray red balloon in the streets of Paris. Pascal and the balloon become fast friends and share many adventures.
White mane: A young fisherman living near the Rhone River in the vast plains of the Camargue in France wins the confidence of a wild stallion named White Mane.
Bim, the little donkey: This spirited adventure follows two boys - one poor and good hearted, the other weathy and spoiled...
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Description
Resentful young Parisian chambermaid Celestine finds herself exiled to a position in the provinces where she must humbly submit to the iron rules and pettiness of her high-handed bourgeois mistress while rebuffing the groping advances of Monsieur and contending with her fascination with the brooding gardener, Joseph.
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