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The writer Louis Gardel remembers his youth in Algeria. In 1955, Louis is 15 years old and lives with his grandmother Zoé. Zoé is friend with president Steiger, leader of the French settlers but also with the old Arab Bouarab. One night looking at the Bay of Algiers, Louis is convinced that the world in which he has grown will disappear. The first events of the War of Independence have begun. The young boys and young girls have a good time at the seaside: swimming, dancing, flirting. But, little by little, the war becomes part of their daily life.
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La famosa actriz, que ha erigido la reserva y la discreción en una ética de vida, conversa con la directora Anne Andreu para un programa televisivo. Recuerda su infancia, su carrera, ciertas películas, determinados actores, ciertos directores... mientras evoca a aquellas personas que amó: su hermana Françoise, Roger Vadim, Marcello Mastroianni o François Truffaut mientras explica cómo combina la vida pública y privada.
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The last episode of Pagnol's memories (see also "La Gloire de Mon Père" "le Château de Ma Mère" and "Le Temps des secrets") deals with the teenage years of Marcel. While always spending his Summers in his dear Garrigue, he is now on the way to the Baccalaureat. He 's got a good pal Lagneau (The Lamb) who of course infuriates the teachers when he "bleats"...
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The story takes us from the dear Garrigue to the secondary school where Marcel is first ill at ease because he is a scholarship holder and because he went to the grade school (the other bourgeois pupils had probably a private tutor). A fight against a rich kid ,that augurs badly for what is to follow. (to be followed in "Le Temps des Amours" )
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The story of Napoleon Bonaparte's grandniece, the famous Princess Marie, her friendship and her work with Sigmund Freud.
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Loosely based on Diégo Brosset’s novel, set in the Sahara at the beginning of the twentieth century. A man of the desert is adopted by some hunters and becomes a highly respected guide while trying to escape colonization.
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France, 1940. German troops have just invaded the country, but in the rural idyll of the family chateau inhabited by 20-year-old Mellie with her impoverished aristocrat father Alexandre and adolescent cousin Robinson, the war still seems far away, apart from the fact that Mellie's rich and unpopular fiancé André has been drafted into the army. For Robinson and his friends the same age, including the temperamental Bertrand, the war is merely a game they play in the remoteness of the blue island in the lake.
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June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) are sent to Kiev. She wants to return to France immediately; he knows that they are captives and must watch every step.
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Himalaya narra la historia de una milenaria tradición: la caravana anual de yaks, en la que se transporta sal desde un remoto pueblo en las montañas hasta la llanura. El jefe de la tribu es quien encabeza la marcha, pero ante su inesperada muerte, es preciso escoger un sucesor. En este momento surgen las rivalidades entre los miembros de la tribu y las diferencias entre el nuevo sucesor y el hombre "sabio" y consejero de la tribu les llevarán a iniciar la expedición por separado, siguiendo rutas diferentes y enfrentándose a situaciones extremas...
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In Dieppe, a taciturn young man is fascinated by a woman whom he has only seen in the street. One day, he leaves Dieppe and Lola, the girl he was living with. He becomes a truck-driver. In the Middle East, Christian's travels end in a prison in the heart of the desert. There he meets Eliot who lives an isolated life within the prison environment. Since Eliot talks, Christian who was mute up to that point, listens then speaks too. But Eliot receives letters from a woman: Marie. And Christian starts dreaming that she's the woman he saw on the streets of Dieppe.
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Melodrama romántico, ambientado en la Indochina francesa durante los años treinta, que narra los cambios que llevaron a la creación del Vietnam a partir de las ruinas del colonialismo. A la hora de ser elegida mejor película extranjera tuvo mucho peso la interpretación de la prestigiosa actriz Catherine Deneuve, que fue nominada al Oscar. Una elegante mujer de ascendencia francesa, propietaria de una plantación de caucho, tiene dos grandes amores: su hija adoptiva y el país en donde vive.
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A veteran of the Indochina war, a doctor emigrated to Kabylia. He is torn between his love for the sister of a rebel group and his duty as a patriot.
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The enigmatic but vivid imagery of this loosely plotted film is based on a similarly evocative novel by the Italian author Antonio Tabucchi, Noturno Indiano. An old friend of the hero's has been living in Bombay with a prostitute. His friend Peter Schlemihl (Otto Tausig) is a concentration camp survivor, who went to India after being captivated by a photograph he saw there. When the prostitute writes to him in Europe asking that he rescue his friend from a mysterious malaise, he flies into India to try and help. When he gets to Bombay, he discovers that his friend has disappeared. Following the clues left behind by the friend, and based on his acquaintance with him, he journeys to Madras to speak to a Theosophist dignitary there, and then journeys on to Portugues Goa. With each step of his journey, the hero (Jean-Hugues Anglade) becomes more identified with his friend, and re-enacts in his own person the transformations he must have experienced.
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En 1911, Charles Saganne, un teniente del ejército francés de origen campesino, tenía todas las cualidades de un héroe de Balzac: ambición, amor y buena presencia. Cansado de la vida de la guarnición, decide ir al Sur, al Sáhara. Allí conocerá la vida y la muerte, la aventura, la libertad, la lucha en el campo de batalla, el fracaso, el sufrimiento y el placer, el amor y la gloria en la campaña de pacificación del desierto, donde un fuerte llevará su nombre. (FILMAFFINITY)
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En 1911, Charles Saganne, un teniente del ejército francés de origen campesino, tenía todas las cualidades de un héroe de Balzac: ambición, amor y buena presencia. Cansado de la vida de la guarnición, decide ir al Sur, al Sáhara. Allí conocerá la vida y la muerte, la aventura, la libertad, la lucha en el campo de batalla, el fracaso, el sufrimiento y el placer, el amor y la gloria en la campaña de pacificación del desierto, donde un fuerte llevará su nombre. (FILMAFFINITY)
