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Jean, an anthropologist with no history, is appointed Minister of the Family. While he discovers the backstage of the political world, he must also deal with the events that shake his own family, with the discovery of his brother's homosexuality, and the unexpected pregnancy of his wife.
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Año 1763. Obligado a exiliarse, el célebre libertino Giacomo Casanova abandona París y viaja a Londres, donde conoce a Marianne de Charpillon, una joven prostituta por la cual se siente tan atraído que llega a olvidarse del resto de mujeres.
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Indochina, 1945. Mientras los franceses son acosados tanto por el ejército japonés como por los rebeldes vietnamitas, el soldado Robert Tassen, impulsado por el recuerdo de una tragedia de la que es el único superviviente, emprende la búsqueda del misterioso y cruel Võ Bình Yên, uno de los líderes de la insurrección.
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Siglo XVIII. Suzanne, de 16 años, es forzada por su familia a entrar en una orden religiosa, aunque ella aspiraba a vivir en "el mundo". En el convento, se enfrenta a la arbitraria autoridad de las madres superioras. Gracias a su pasión y a su fuerza podrá resistir el rigor de la disciplina religiosa y luchará por conseguir su único objetivo: recuperar la ansiada libertad.
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Antoine, un publicista de éxito, está casado, tiene dos hijos, vive en una bonita casa no lejos de París y sus relaciones con los vecinos son excelentes. La discreta relación que mantiene con la guapa Marion no es tan seria como para perturbar su equilibrio. Sin embargo, un buen día su vida experimenta un vuelco. Durante una reunión con un cliente importante, pierde los estribos y, de paso, el proyecto. Su socio le propone que se tome unos días de vacaciones para descansar, pero Antoine, que ya ha decidido abandonar su trabajo, le ofrece su parte en el negocio. Cuando regresa a casa para pasar el fin de semana, empieza a destruir sistemáticamente todo lo que ha construido durante años
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Like every weekend senator Henri Pagès and his wife entertain guests at their beautiful mansion in a peaceful village near Paris. But this time around, things go awry: Pierre Collier, a psychoanalyst and consummate womanizer, is brutally murdered. Claire, his wife, dazed and confused by his corpse, with a smoking gun still in her hand, seems to be the ideal culprit...
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Dos personas, muy lejanas la una de la otra, acaban acercándose por el trabajo y porque la situación acaba provocándolo. Ella es una mujer casada, productora de un programa de televisión, llena de dudas sentimentales y profesionales. Él es un hombre, homosexual, autor de biografías de artistas más o menos olvidados, deprimido por el resultado de su última obra.
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A lo largo de un verano, se narra la historia del amor exaltado de Livia, una adolescente de 15 años, hacia Jean, un bombero voluntario de 37 años, profesor, casado y padre de dos niños.
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After 10 years and two children together, Philippe and Marion, finally decide to take a honeymoon Holiday in Venice. At the train station, a abandoned bag filled with money will bring them to a different journey. A journey of doubt where reality never quite lies where it seems, leading from separation to reconciliation.
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After 10 years and two children together, Philippe and Marion, finally decide to take a honeymoon Holiday in Venice. At the train station, a abandoned bag filled with money will bring them to a different journey. A journey of doubt where reality never quite lies where it seems, leading from separation to reconciliation.
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One day, on a whim, Marc decides to shave off the moustache he's worn all of his adult life. He waits patiently for his wife's reaction, but neither she nor his friends seem to notice. Stranger still, when he finally tells them, they all insist he never had a moustache. Is Marc going mad? Is he the victim of some elaborate conspiracy? Or has something in the world's order gone terribly awry?
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A humble copy editor becomes a personal assistant to her favorite actress and eventually loses herself both in the actress' demands and her own ego.
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Cristina sabe ir de compras, llevar la casa, trabajar de secretaria en una empresa, ir a comer a a casa de sus padres, apuntarse en una auto-escuela… Lo de todo el mundo. Lo que ocurre es que quizás lo hace todo con excesivo ahínco… demasiado a fondo. Se toma todo demasiado a pecho, como se suele decir. No consigue hacer las cosas de manera relajada como los demás. Los demás se adaptan al mundo y ella no. Ni siquiera se atreve a decir a sus padres que vive sola y se inventa una historia con el chico que le enseña a conducir. Por eso, cuando Patricia, la encargada de la agencia de colocació,n le habla con amabilidad, interesándose por su caso, parece como si recobrara confianza en la vida…
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Un exempresario ha cumplido condena en prisión y su vida cambia al salir de la cárcel. Ya no es el mismo, y sólo puede revelarse tal cual es cuando conoce a la peluquera de su esposa.
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A bored, sexually frustrated woman's life improves when she begins hypnotherapy and tries feng shui, but her husband's life unravels.
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A young Parisian must make major decisions about pregnancy, a job and her boyfriend.
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Conversation between a woman (Duras) and a man (D. Noguez) about a woman and a man.
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This afterword to India Song (Duras' celebrated 1975 film) is organized in several parts. It begins with an interview to Marguerite Duras by Dominique Noguez, an expert in her work; the interview links the film to the two movies whom it's related to: The Ravishment of Lol V. Stein and The Vice-Consul.
Several themes are tackled: childhood, autobiographical traces, relationships between differents characters and different films and more. India Song's main actors — Delphine Seyrig and Michael Lonsdale, who played Anne-Marie Stretter and the French vice-consul — join the conversation and talk about their roles and their craft. Marguerite Duras then evokes her memories of the shooting with the composer Carlos D'Alessio and her camera operato Bruno Nuytten.
The conversations are punctuated by clips of the film.
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Reel 23 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.
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A documentary about filmmaker Marguerite Duras.
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In this interview with Dominique Noguez, Marguerite Duras talks successively about each of her four short films made in 1979: Césarée, Les Mains négatives, Aurélia Steiner (Melbourne), Aurélia Steiner (Vancouver). She touches briefly on the various subjects dealt with: the return to Césarée of Berenice, repudiated for reasons of state, Jewish wandering, the scandal of the camps in the two Aurelia Steiner. Negative Hands as the colonial data of humanity, a film offered to the blacks and Portuguese who clean up Paris before leaving the place. Marguerite Duras also comments, with excerpts, on the various traveling shots that make up the main plot of each of the short films. And the documentary ends with a few words of epilogue: a real pamphlet by Marguerite Duras against dreams, significantly entitled Work and Words.