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Poetic realism reaches sublime heights with Children of Paradise, the ineffably witty tale of a woman loved by four different men. Deftly entwining theater, literature, music, and design, director Marcel Carné and screenwriter Jacques Prévert re[...]![]()
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Writer Jean Cocteau and director Jean-Pierre Melville joined forces for this elegant adaptation of Cocteau's immensely popular, wicked novel about the wholly unholy relationship between a brother and sister. Elisabeth (a remarkable Nicole Stépha[...]![]()
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Legendary French star Gérard Philipe swashbuckled his way into film history as the peasant soldier Fanfan in Christian-Jaques devil-may-care romantic action-comedy. In eighteenth-century France, Fanfan joins King Louis XVs army to avoid a forc[...]![]()
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Director Jean Renoirs entrancing first color featureshot entirely on location in Indiais a visual tour de force. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden, the film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of[...]![]()
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When he was just twenty-nine years old, Mathieu Kassovitz took the international film world by storm with La Haine (Hate), a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically[...]![]()
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In this warmhearted comic yarn from Aki Kaurismäki, fate throws the young African refugee Idrissa (Blondin Miguel) into the path of Marcel Marx (André Wilms), a kindly old bohemian who shines shoes for a living in the French harbor city of Le Ha[...]![]()
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Universally acclaimed by critics, the multiple award-winning Summer Hours is the great contemporary French filmmaker Olivier Assayas's most personal film to date. Three siblings, , played by Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, and Jérémie Rénier,[...]![]()
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En août 1957, à Hiroshima. Dans la pénombre d'une chambre, un couple nu, enlacé. Elle, une jeune actrice francaise d'une trentaine d'années venue pour jouer dans un film sur la paix. Lui, un architecte japonais. C'est l'histoire de leur impossib[...]![]()
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One of the most influential, radical science-fiction films ever made and a mind-bending free-form travelogue, La Jetée and Sans Soleil couldn't seem more different - yet they're the twin pillars of one of the most daring and uncompromising caree[...]![]()
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François Truffaut's breathlessly paced three-way romance is cinema's most provocative, exuberant portrait of the unpredictability of love. Spanning twenty-five years, the film dissects the relationship between the beautiful, free-spirited Cather[...]![]()
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Anaïs, douze ans, se trouve complexée par son poids. Tapie dans l'ombre ou laissée pour compte, elle souffre intérieurement.C'est l'été, la mer, les vacances en famille, l'apprentissage du premier amour. Cet apprentissage, Anaïs le fait en obser[...]![]()
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Claude Jutra's evocative portrait of a boy's coming-of-age in wintry 1940s rural Quebec has been consistently cited by critics and scholars as the greatest Canadian film of all time. Delicate, naturalistic, and tinged with a striking mix of nost[...]![]()
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Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, filmmaker Alain Resnais documented he abandoned grounds of Auschwitz. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust, Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard) cont[...]![]()
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Jean Cocteau's update of the Orpheus myth depicts a famous poet (Jean Marais), scorned by the Left Bank youth, and his love for both his wife, Eurydice (Marie Déa), and a mysterious princess (Maria Casarès). Seeking inspiration, the poet follows[...]![]()
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The notorious Pépé le moko (Jean Gabin, in a truly iconic performance) is a wanted man: women long for him, rivals hope to destroy him, and the law is breathing down his neck at every turn. On the lam in the labyrinthine Casbah of Algiers, Pépé [...]