Eugenia Grandet (1977)
Género : Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 54M
Director : Pilar Miró
Sinopsis
Adaptation of the famous Balzac novel
Continúa el ciclo de Antoine Doinel tras "Los cuatrocientos golpes" y "L'amour à vingt ans". El protagonista (Jean-Pierre Léaud), tras ser expulsado del ejército por insubordinación, visita a su antigua novia, Christine Darbon (Claude Jade). El padre de Christine encuentra un trabajo temporal para Antoine como vigilante nocturno de un hotel. Sin embargo, por culpa de un detective privado, pierde el empleo el primer día. Como compensación, el detective le ofrece un trabajo en su agencia. Al principio Antoine se encarga de asuntos menores hasta que le encomiendan la misión de averiguar por qué todas las empleadas de la zapatería del señor Georges Tabard (Michel Lonsdale) lo odian. En la zapatería, Antoine conocerá a Fabienne Tabard (Delphine Seyrig), la esposa del propietario.
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A poor but ambitious young man arrives in Paris and settles down in the boarding house run by Madame Vauquer. He soon gets to know the guests: Victorine Taillefer, a young lady her rich father refuses to recognize; Horace Bianchon, a medical student; Monsieur Vautrin, a mysterious and disconcerting man; Goriot, a rich merchant who spent all his fortune for his daughters, Delphine and Anastasie, to make a rich marriage. Eugène becomes friends with Goriot but while the former, thanks to his cousin Madame de Beauséant, is introduced in high society, Goriot, both exploited and scoffed at by his daughters, continues his descent into hell.
A soldier who was long thought dead in World War 2, returns to modern day New York to combat monsters, who are now the power elite, running the city.
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Adaptation of the Balzac story as told by Rosalie, a young girl in love with the idea of her extraordinary neighbor, Albert Savarus, and the lengths she goes to ensure their marriage, even after she learns he is in deeply in love to another woman.
The unhappy female editor of a fashion magazine is undergoing psychoanalysis.
Frank Groothof tells and sings the story of Ulysses' homecoming. He is accompanied musically by the saxphone ensemble Sax et Plus. The Dutch peninsula of Schiermonnikoog forms the backdrop for the story, in which Groothof himself plays almost all carachters.
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While on a school shopping trip, the girls get locked in the mall after it closes on Christmas Eve.
Adaptation of the famous Balzac novel