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IFC Films
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Français
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Nathalie is a philosophy teacher with a seemingly settled existence, juggling a rich life of the mind with the day-to-day demands of career and family. But beginning with the bombshell revelation that her husband of twenty-five years is leaving her, one by one the pillars of Nathalie's life start to crumble. For the first time in ages, she finds herself adrift, but also with a newfound sense of liberation. With nothing to hold her back, Nathalie sets...
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Kino Lorber
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The legendary Jean-Luc Godard adds to his influential, iconoclastic legacy with this provocative collage film essay, a vast ontological inquiry into the history of the moving image and a commentary on the contemporary world. Displaying an encyclopedic grasp of cinema and its history, Godard pieces together fragments and clips them from some of the greatest films of the past, then digitally alters, bleaches, and washes them, all in the service of reflecting...
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Kino Lorber
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Français
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Férid Boughedir charmingly pulls off a lighthearted comedic fable about, of all things, the 2011 Arab Spring uprising in Tunisia. This year we’re treating the Friends of the Film Festival to the sweet story of Zizou, a naive and sincere optimist whose crush on a beautiful girl leads him to become the unwitting face of a revolution. With two years of university under his belt, but very little common sense, Zizou leaves his Saharan village and finds...
4) Titane
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A Cannes Film Festival sensation and Palme d'Or winner, TITANE is a feverish and jaw-dropping ride from the mind of Julia Ducournau (RAW). With a titanium plate surgically fused to her skull following a car crash as a child, car model Alexia embarks on a wild and ultimately unpredictable journey that questions our assumptions about family, identity and love.
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Music Box Films
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Anticipating their father’s imminent death, three siblings reunite at their home in Burgundy to preserve the vineyard that ties them together in this tender and modern tale of familial strife and resilience from director Cédric Klapisch. "*As rich and earthy as a fine French wine...*” - Peter Debrudge, ***Variety*** "*Four stars... Rich and absorbing.*" - G. Allen Johnson, ***The San Francisco Chronicle***
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Strand Releasing
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Français
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Frank spends his summer days hopelessly searching for companionship at a popular cruising spot on the shores of a lake in rural France. One day, he meets Michel, an attractive yet darkly mysterious man and falls blindly in love. When a death occurs, Frank and Michel become the primary suspects but they choose to ignore the dangers and instead continue to engage in their passionate and potentially lethal relationship. STRANGER BY THE LAKE is an erotic...
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Menemsha Films
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Français
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At the end of the 1950s, Rachel (Virginie Efira), a young office clerk living in a provincial town, meets Philippe (Niels Schneider), a well-educated man from a wealthy family. They share an intense but short-lived romance, from which a daughter is born. Over the next 50 years, their lives will be shaped by the unconditional love between a mother and her daughter, overshadowed by the impossible love of a woman for a man that rejects her, and of a...
8) Summer hours
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
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Français
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Three siblings must decide what to do with the country estate and objects they've inherited from their mother. Bonus special edition features include interview, documentaries, theatrical trailer, and booklet.
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Music Box Films
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An affecting human drama of love, loss, and strength unfolds against the backdrop of World War I. The women of the Paridier farm, under the deft hand of Hortense, the family's matriarch, must grapple with the workload while the men, are off at the front. New tools allow the women to triumph over the land, newfound independence is acquired, yet emotions are stirred when the men return. Nominated for four awards, including Best Cinematography and Most...
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Distrib Films
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Maintaining a household and stoically submitting to conjugal duty are the skills Paulette Van Der Beck teaches with fervor in her homemaker's institute. Her certainties are shaken when she finds herself widowed and ruined. Is she rattled by the return of her first love or the wind of freedom in May '68? What if the good wife finally became a free woman?
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Music Box Films
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Français
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François Ozon's gripping drama follows three men who band together to dismantle the code of silence that continues to protect a priest who abused them decades ago. Based on events from the 2019 conviction of Cardinal Philippe Barbarin of Lyon for concealing the conduct of Father Bernard Preynat, the film compassionately illustrates the varying effects of trauma on survivors and their families in an urgent portrait of resistance, the power of mobilization,...
12) Leaving
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2011
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Français
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When stay-at-home mom Suzanne wants to return to work, her husband agrees to remodel a garage to serve as her office. Ivan, a sexy Spanish builder, enters their lives and changes them in ways no one could have expected. Suzanne and Ivan are irresistibly drawn together by an erotic passion that threatens to destroy her marriage, her family, and everything she holds dear. Her husband will stop at nothing to destroy her first.
13) Goliath
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Distrib Films
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Français
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The fates of three strangers intertwine in Frďřic Tellier's thriller GOLIATH. France is a schoolteacher who becomes an activist after her husband develops cancer from pesticide exposure. Mathias is an ambitious lobbyist working for a multinational chemical corporation. Patrick is a lonely but tireless environmental lawyer. All will have their lives collided and turned upside down after one farmer's desperate act sparks a powerful movement. Based...
14) La syndicaliste
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Kino Lorber
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Français
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An investigative thriller set in the world of nuclear power and politics, LA SYNDICALISTE follows the true story of Maureen Kearney (Isabelle Huppert), the influential head union representative of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. A deft navigator of elite political and financial circles, Maureen becomes a whistleblower when she discovers international backroom dealings, exposing secrets that shook the French nuclear sector. Fighting against...
15) Slack bay
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Kino Lorber
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Français
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The bourgeois and extremely eccentric Van Peteghem family have settled in for another summer at their cliff-top villa overlooking the picturesque Slack Bay. Their leisurely rhythm of sunbathing and seaside constitutionals is soon interrupted by the arrival of two bumbling inspectors investigating a string of tourists gone missing. As the macabre mysteries mount and love blossoms between the family’s genderqueer teen and the son of a local fisherman,...
16) Scarlet
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Kino Lorber
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Français
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Pietro Marcello, one of contemporary cinema’s most versatile talents, follows up his dramatic breakthrough Martin Eden with this enchanting period fable. Shortly after World War I, veteran Raphaël returns home from the frontlines a widower and father to an infant daughter. Raised in rural Normandy, the child Juliette grows into a headstrong young woman who dreams of greater possibilities. She seeks refuge in the nearby woods, where she meets a...
17) Fanny's journey
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Menemsha Films
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Français
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Based on a true story, FANNY’S JOURNEY is an incredible tale of bravery, strength and survival, a story of a daring young girl. In 1943, 13-year old Fanny and her younger sisters were sent from their home in France to an Italian foster home for Jewish children. When the Nazis arrive in Italy, their caretakers desperately organize the departure of the children to Switzerland. When they are suddenly left on their own, these 11 children do the impossible...
18) 4 days in France
Publisher
Cinema Guild
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Français
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On a seemingly ordinary night in Paris, Pierre takes one last look at his lover Paul and steals away, with his Grindr app as his only guide. Paul sets out after him, using his own phone to track Pierre’s movements in a strange and wonderful game of Grindr cat-and-mouse. Nominated for a Queer Lion at the **Venice Film Festival.** *"A sly, sexy and strangely disarming cruise along the queerer backroads of rural France that marks an intriguing debut...
19) Pickpocket
Series
Criterion collection volume 314
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005
Language
Français
Description
Michel, an insignificant man who drifts into crime, is arrested and imprisoned. Upon release, he abandons an attempt at reform when a master pickpocket teaches him his art.
20) Martin Roumagnac
Publisher
Icarus Films
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Français
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The tragic postwar romance is a tale of class anxiety and classic Romantic fatalism, run through with a typically French frankness about sex and gender. Jean Gabin is the title character, an unpretentious and proudly working-class building contractor, who falls in love with a ravishing shopgirl Blanche, quite unaware that she comes trailing a notorious sexual history and attracts the determined ardor of every man she meets. Among her current lovers...
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