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1) Madeleine
Author
Publisher
L'école des loisirs
Pub. Date
2006, c1985
Language
Français
Description
Madeline, smallest and naughtiest of the twelve little charges of Miss Clavel, wakes up one night with attack of appendicitis.
2) Carmen
Author
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Contains the complete text of the libretto with annotations in both English and French and a critical historical commentary. The text also includes the background of the composer, biographies of the principal singers and conductor. The two accompanying CDs contain the complete opera sung in French.
Author
Publisher
CLE International
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
63 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.
Language
Français
Description
Une édition de référence de Notre-Dame de Paris de Victor Hugo, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Il y a aujourd'hui trois cent quarante-huit ans six mois et dix-neuf jours que les Parisiens s'éveillèrent au bruit de toutes les cloches sonnant à grande volée dans la triple enceinte de la Cité, de l'Université et de la Ville.
Ce n'est cependant pas un jour dont l'histoire ait gardé souvenir que le 6...
4) L'Étranger
Author
Language
Français
Description
Meursault is a French Algerian who learns of his mother's death by telegram. Meursault's indifference to the news of his mother's death demonstrates some emotional detachment from his environment. There are multiple instances throughout the novel where significant moments do not have an emotional impact on Meursault. He doesn't show emotion to the fact that his mother is dead. Another aspect of Meursault is that he is an honest person. He always speaks...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
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...
6) Paris Match
Series
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Depuis plus de 60 ans, Match raconte le monde tel qu’il est. Entre les joies et les peines, les larmes et les sourires, l’Histoire s’écrit à travers les destins du quotidien, sur la scène internationale, et trouve chaque semaine un écho émouvant dans le magazine.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
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...
9) Girlhood
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Fed up with her abusive family situation, lack of school prospects and the "boys' law" in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her style, drops out of school and starts stealing to be accepted into the gang. When her home situation becomes unbearable, Marieme seeks solace in an older man who promises her money and protection. Realizing this sort of lifestyle will never...
10) France
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Léa Seydoux brilliantly holds the center of Bruno Dumont’s unexpected, unsettling new film, which starts out as a satire of the contemporary news media before steadily spiraling out into something richer and darker. Never one to shy away from provoking his viewers, Dumont (The Life of Jesus, NYFF35) casts Seydoux as France de Meurs, a seemingly unflappable superstar TV journalist whose career, homelife, and psychological stability are shaken after...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
After attempting to set a mailbox on fire, Pimpette, 14, and her elder sister, Joséphine, 18, spend their summer holidays shuttling between their secretly pregnant mom and bachelor father. But when Joséphine gets involved with the wrong crowd, little Pimpette turns out to be more responsible than the grown-ups who spend their time educating her.
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The decades-spanning tumultuous romance of a quintessentially French couple is chronicled in the thought-provoking and scathingly funny MR. & MRS. ADELMAN. Told in flashback from the early 1970s forward, this epic love-hate relationship begins as angst-ridden writer Victor meets Sarah, a brilliant doctoral student who falls head-over-heels. A complicated courtship and eventual marital discord ensue, as the egocentric Victor becomes a literary superstar...
13) Sorry Angel
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Paris, 1993. Jacques (Pierre Deladonchamps) is a semi-renowned writer and single father in his thirties trying to maintain his sense of romance and humor in spite of the turmoil in his life and the world. While on a work trip to Brittany, he meets Arthur (Vincent Lacoste), an aspiring filmmaker in his early twenties, who is experiencing a sexual awakening and eager to get out of his parochial life. Arthur becomes instantly smitten with the older man....
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
In this Parisian bitter sweet romance from Cédric Klapisch, warehouse employee Rémy (François Civil) and research assistant Mélanie (Ana Girardot) have never met, but they live parallel lives: they reside in neighboring apartment buildings, ride the same subway route, and are troubled by bouts of insomnia and depression. Their days punctuated by unfulfilling jobs, they seek meaningful romantic and platonic connection. As they stumble through psychotherapy,...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexandre Taillard de Vorms is a human whirlwind and a man confident in France's importance on the world stage. In this hilarious send-up of diplomacy and international politics, he takes on American neo-cons, corrupt Russians and the opportunistic Chinese while his hapless speech writer endures the eccentricities of his megalomaniacal boss and his sycophantic entourage.
17) Eugénie Grandet
Author
Series
Publisher
Librairie Larousse
Pub. Date
[1965]
Edition
Texte intégral.
Physical Desc
2 v. ; ill. :
Language
Français
Description
Une édition de référence d'Eugénie Grandet de Honoré de Balzac, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« En toute situation, les femmes ont plus de causes de douleur que n'en a l'homme, et souffrent plus que lui. L'homme a sa force, et l'exercice de sa puissance : il agit, il va, il s'occupe, il pense, il embrasse l'avenir et y trouve des consolations. Ainsi faisait Charles. Mais la femme demeure, elle reste face...
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
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...
19) La chamade
Author
Publisher
Prentice-Hall
Pub. Date
[1970]
Physical Desc
ix, 202 p. port. 21 cm.
Language
Français
Description
Françoise Sagan est née en 1935. Elle fait son apparition dans le monde littéraire à seulement 18 ans avec la publication d'un court roman, Bonjour Tristesse. Le succès est immédiat et l'auteur devient le symbole d'une jeunesse émancipée, et légère. La facilité, la rapidité et la nonchalance sont la signature de celle que François Mauriac avait nommée « le charmant petit monstre ». Toute sa vie, Françoise Sagan a nourri l'image double...
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