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Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2014], 2013
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91, 11 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Arman is 33 and ready to make a change, starting with a run in the park. When he literally bumps into Amélie--slightly cynical but nevertheless lovely--on the jogging path, he's dead-set on making a connection with her. As a bit of contrived fate brings them together, Arman's best friend Benjamin suffers an unexpected stroke, relegating him to the hospital for weeks where he falls for his doting young physical therapist. Over the course of two autumns...
2) Gigi
Language
English
Description
A musical set in Paris in which a girl trained as a high society courtesan falls in love with a rich and handsome boulevardier.
Publisher
Ardustry Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Full Screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's Paris in 1913 and in the months leading up to the World War, beautiful young widow Louise Creteur arrives at the Villa Des Roses to work as a chambermaid. But the 'Villa' turns out to be a dilapidated old mansion run by an eccentric British couple. Inhabiting the crumbling manor is a colorful assortment of odd balls, opportunists and lost souls. All are presided over by Ella, the gossipy cook, who secretly spies on everyone in the house. Louise...
Series
Baruch video volume DVD 65
Publisher
Pathfinder Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
In a provincial French town, a sophisticated schoolmistress avoids attachments but strikes up a congenial friendship with the charmingly passionate local butcher, a veteran of Indochina. As a serial killer spreads terror throughout the countryside, the effort of these two people to come back from their emotional islands to some kind of mutual understanding and reality builds from oblique tenderness and humor to shattering tragedy.
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Sandrine is a successful Parisienne who tires of her job in the rat race and decides to buy Adrien's isolated farm with the caveat that he remain onsite for a period of time. A touching story of growth and change and of the glorious ability of nature to stir the depths of one's heart.
6) Ninotchka
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Garbo plays a dour, severe Soviet official who comes to Paris on business involving the sale of some czarist jewels. But soon business turns to pleasure as she discovers the special magic of Paris and finds herself succumbing to the charms of a suave Frenchman named Leon D'Algout (Melvyn Douglas). The plot bubbles merrily as Ninotchka chooses between romance and duty--and must even confront a rival for Leon's affection in the exiled Grand Duchess...
Series
Criterion collection volume 342
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (480 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 books.
Language
Français
Description
"A succession of jousts between fragile men and the women who tempt them"--Container.
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Arnaud, facing an uncertain future and a dearth of choices in a small French coastal town, meets and falls for the apocalyptic-minded Madeleine, who joins an army boot camp to learn military and survival skills to prepare for the upcoming environmental collapse. Intrigued and excited Arnauld sings up for the boot camp himself. They soon realize that the boot camp is harder than they had imagined.
11) La vie en rose
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Extended version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 141 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Edith Piaf was raised in a brothel, wrested from the only life she knew by her father so they could join the circus, Edith spent her teen years on the streets. She is finally "rescued" by a crime figure who gives her career a start, and, ultimately, her international success and final illness. She was always frail, sickly, malnourished, and wildly temperamental. She was often on drugs or alcohol, and she was always in search of true love. Middleweight...
12) A good year
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Max Skinner is a highly successful investment broker with no time for life outside of his job. When his estranged uncle dies, Max inherits the chateau and vineyard in France where he grew up. His first intention is to sell the vineyard as quickly as possible, but after spending unexpected time at the vineyar, he discovers a part of himself that he thought he had lost and experiences romance and a blossoming new love affir with a beautiful French woman...
Series
Publisher
Film Movement, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 38 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
In 1851, France's autocratic President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte has ordered the arrest of all the men of a remote mountain farming village following a Republican uprising. The women spend years in total isolation, forced to tend the crops themselves. Some women have lost their husbands; others, like the shy but inwardly strong Violette, suddenly have no chance of experiencing physical love or motherhood. The women take an oath: if a man comes, they...
15) Lemming
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The story of a troubled relationship festering between two couples : young Alain Getty, a home automation engineer, and his wife, sweet Bénédicte ; and middle-aged André, Alain's boss, who is married to the mysterious Alice. Their encounter does not leave the young couple's harmony unscathed. The discovery of a mysterious rodent's corpse blocking the waste pipe of their kitchen sink does nothing to help and portends the bursting of irrationality...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (folded).
Language
Français
Description
Two luminaries of French cinema, Claire Denis and Juliette Binoche, unite for the first time in this piercing look at the elusive nature of true love, and the extent to which we are willing to betray ourselves in its pursuit. The film finds bleak humor in a cutting truth: everyone is, no matter the age, a fool for love.
Publisher
KOCH Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
Français
Description
Camille, a concert violinist, becomes intrigued by her lover's business partner, Stephane. She interprets his distance as a sign of intellectual seduction. The love triangle that develops reveals the complexity and imperfection of the three characters.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen unrated director's cut.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 185 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Betty and Zorg are not your average French lovers. Together, they make life a magical fantasy in which absolutely anything can happen-- until their dreams collide with reality.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
It's love at first sight when bridesmaid Senta falls into the life of a handsome young Phillipe at the wedding of his younger sister. As passion for one another intensifies, Phillipe slowly discovers that Senta is shrouded in mystery. When one day she asks Phillipe to perform a terrible deed as proof of his love for her, Phillipe must come to terms with who his lover might really be.
20) Renoir
Publisher
Flatiron Film Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Jean Renoir, son of the Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste, returns home in the summer of 1915 to Southern France after being wounded in World War I and meets a young woman who inspires both himself and his father.
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