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L'essence des formes (The Essence of Forms), a documentary from 2010 in which collaborators and admirers of Bresson’s, including actor François Leterrier and director Bruno Dumont, share their thoughts about the director and his work.
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Four women, all journalists for the French daily "Libération", decide to have, over the course of a week-end, an experience with a male prostitute.
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Rosa María, una profesora de Historia de la Universidad de Lisboa, emprende con su hija María Joana un crucero por el Mediterráneo que las llevará desde Pompeya a Atenas, pasando por Estambul y Egipto. Al final, debe reunirse con su marido en Bombay, desde donde saldrán de vacaciones. Descubre así parajes que sólo conocía a través de los libros. Durante el crucero, conoce a tres mujeres y a un hombre que le producen una profunda impresión: una prestigiosa empresaria francesa, una famosa modelo italiana ya retirada, una actriz y profesora de canto griega y un americano de origen polaco, que es el capitán del barco. Las cuatro cenan con el capitán, y cada una habla en su lengua materna, aunque todos comprenden lo que quiere decir; se reproduce así una Torre de Babel idílica. Sin embargo, cuando se dirigen hacia el Golfo Pérsico, ocurre algo que perturbará la cena.
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Manoel de Oliveira's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.
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Ana lives in a little village by the sea, with her husband and daughter. He decides to leave for a few days. That seems to be the ideal solution, because Ana needs to finish a work she has been doing for a long time. But her concentration seems threatened when she starts doing her daily walks by the village and the beach: she saves a stranger from death in the sea, meets young Alexandre and Emilia, and her friend Vera turns up in her house. And then, everything changes…
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In 14th-century France, Aliénor breaks with the codes governing girls’ behavior and does as she wishes. The King of France grants her the hand of her childhood love, but her new husband deserts her immediately after the ceremony. Undeterred, she sets out after him, traveling to Siena to bring him back.
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La señorita De Chartres ha sufrido su primer desengaño amoroso. Una noche, una amiga de su madre le presenta a un médico de gran reputación, Jacques de Clèves. Este se enamora de ella, y ambos se casan, a pesar de que ella no le corresponde en su amor. En cambio, un cantante de moda sí hace nacer en ella este sentimiento. La lucha entre su matrimonio y sus sentimientos desembocarán en un callejón sin salida para la nueva señora de Clèves.
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Arthur is a history teacher who lives alone in Paris after having broken up with Claire. He is a sensitive man, full of existential doubts and questions. He has to go to Lisbon to meet an eminent historian whose work is the subject of his thesis. Having just made up with Claire, he decides to take her along. She's an ideal travel companion and it seems their relationship has not yet exhausted its potential. But moving from Lisbon to Oporto, their fantasy of a second honeymoon clashes with the reality of a world on the verge of a nightmare.
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After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions take the viewer on a tour of the foreboding, crumbling shantytown in which they live.
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Independent Parisian doctor Annie finds herself in an emotional tangle when she tries to help single-minded HIV-positive patient Laurent and embarks on a brief affair with conceited actor Richard.
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The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The devoted Portuguese nurse took a journey only to find herself lost in abstract drama.
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Family life in a parisian apartment during the 60's.
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Mayo de 1890. Vicent Van Gogh (Jacques Dutronc) llega a Auvers-sur-Oise y se instala en la modesta pensión Ravoux. Allí se hace amigo del doctor Gachet (Gérard Séty), admirador de su obra, y de su hija Marguerite (Alexandra London). Entregado a la pintura y obsesionado por captar el fluir de la naturaleza y el temperamento de las gentes que conoce, su vida oscilará entre sus estancias en casa de su hermano Théo (Bernard Le Coq) y sus encuentros con una prostituta (Elsa Zylberstein). Apesadumbrado por ser una carga para su hermano, viendo que su obra no es reconocida por los santones del mercado del arte y temiendo un nuevo ataque de locura, tomará una dramática decisión.
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In Brazzaville, in 1944, Alex Emmerich was sentenced to wander the seas by Hélène Latray, the wife of Félix Beauvois, the man Alex loved. In 1962, exiled on Hatray cruises and feeling the coming death, Alex decides to compose for his love a testament: the photographic report of his agony.
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Allan is an engineer working in 1930s Calcutta. He is invited to stay with the family of his boss, Narendra Sen which includes his wife, Indira and daughter Gayatri. Gayatri and Allan become romantically involved leading to tragedy.
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Two teenage lovers are caught up in the thrill of forbidden love in this tragic romantic drama. Pierre (Jean-Pierre Andre) is a 16-year-old French lad who loves 14-year-old Djemila (Nadja Reski), the offspring of Algerian immigrants. Pierre's father is an Algerian war veteran who tolerates living with the immigrants at the low-income housing project as long as the two factions are separated. Djemila's older brother carries bitter hatred for the French over their invasion of Algeria. Both young lovers fall victim to the intolerance of their families when their relatives discover that the two are engaged in a passionate love affair.
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Antoine leaves his new bride behind to go on a skiing excursion with his uncle up the mountain behind their village of Derborence. Nine weeks after an avalanche apparently buries them alive, Antoine returns home. Certain that his uncle has also survived, he resolves to go back up and look for him—leaving his now-pregnant wife behind once more.
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A principios del siglo XX, Max, un joven de dieciocho años, se alista en la Marina. De esta forma se convierte en el Marino 512 y es enviado a Lorient, como ordenanza al servicio del Comandante Roger. Él debe casarse con Colette, una empleada doméstica, pero cae locamente enamorado de la esposa del comandante, convirtiéndose en su amante. A partir de aquí su vida irá atravesando por situaciones límite, entre el peligro y la aventura.
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Adaptación de un relato breve de Leon Tolstoi: "El billete falso". Yvon es un joven que es injustamente acusado de traficar con dinero falso. A partir de ese error judicial, la adversidad dominará su vida. Durante su estancia en prisión, el ambiente en el que se mueve lo va degradando y corrompiendo hasta convertirlo en una persona sin escrúpulos ni principios morales.
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After the death of his parents, Pierre is forced to care for his younger sister Nathalie by committing petty crimes. In a recurring motif of Gérard Blain’s cinema, Pierre is taken under the wing of an older gay man, Hubert , who offers him work and financial security; but when Hubert makes advances to him, Pierre robs him and takes up with a group of radical leftists who are planning terrorist attacks. Without employment, Pierre loses Nathalie to child services and spirals into desperation, finally erupting in an act of horrific violence. An x-ray showing the largely undiagnosed sickness of its time, and a stern warning to ours.
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An aging dentist looks for a little liveliness by abandoning his wife in favor of a younger woman. When he learns that his mistress also has another younger lover, he gets jealous, but tries not to make an issue of it. In the end, he dumps her and returns to his wife, who is not about to stand for his middle-aged immaturity. She leaves him.
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Deserted by his father, and dislocated by the Second World War, Paul is a boy who wants affection and attention and cannot find it at home. For a while, he becomes the pet of some German soldiers, running errands for them. Later, he helps the Resistance, and when the Americans come to stay, he is really in his element with them.
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In 1916, Vincent van Horst leaves Europe to return to his Canadian homeland. There, he seeks his former love, Maria... but the lady's pride is hurt and she refuses to see him. Vincent then falls for a younger woman, Annie.
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La aburguesada vida de Viviane, esposa del cónsul de Francia en Melbourne, se abre a nuevos horizontes cuando conoce en la Nueva Guinea Australiana a Olivier, miembro de un grupo de excursionistas que va en busca de 'El valle', un lugar idílico que no se encuentra en los mapas. Viviane se une a la expedición en un viaje liberador que la llevará a practicar el amor libre y a consumir sustancias alucinógenas.
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Antoine y Christine son una pareja de recién casados. Mientras él se gana la vida vendiendo flores secas por las calles de París, su mujer imparte clases de violín. Pasa el tiempo y tienen un bebé, pero Antoine, que sigue siendo un hombre emocionalmente inestable e inmaduro, tiene una aventura extramatrimonial.
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Jean-Louis, un ingeniero católico de treinta años, descubre un día a la salida de misa a Françoise, una mujer rubia, y presiente que algún día se casará con ella, pero la pierde entre la multitud. Por otra parte, su viejo amigo Vidal, marxista convencido, lo lleva a casa de Maud, una bella divorciada.
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Dos hermanas, ambas profesoras de música ( Deneuve y Dorléac), viven en la pequeña población de Rochefort y sueñan con encontrar un gran amor. Homenaje a los grandes musicales de la época dorada de Hollywood.
