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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.
2) Elle
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Michèle seems indestructible. Head of a successful video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life as to business. Being attacked in her home by an unknown assailant changes Michèle's life forever. When she resolutely tracks the man down, they are both drawn into a curious and thrilling game--a game that may, at any moment, spiral out of control.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Famed author Marianne Winckler goes undercover to investigate the exploitation of the working class in Northern France. She eventually lands a job as a cleaner on the cross-channel ferry and develops close connections with the other cleaning women, many of whom have extremely limited resources and income opportunities. As she learns more about the plight of these workers, Marianne struggles with her deception toward them and tries to rationalize that...
Publisher
Distributed by Fox Lorber Associates
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
An impulsive young art student, tired of the complications of freedom and insecurity, ends an affair with a painter and decides she wants to get married. She picks out a prosperous lawyer and confidently sets out to catch him, only to be ensnared by her increasingly obsessive scheming when she refuses to accept his polite indifference.
Publisher
Alchemy
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Desperate to escape the dullness of provincial life, a young married woman pursues forbidden fantasies through a series of indiscreet seductions and adulterous affairs. Based on the acclaimed novel that transformed the Romantic era.
6) Soumaya
Publisher
Indiepix Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
One day, Soumaya a woman of color, a practicing Muslim, a mother, and an executive at an airport transportation company in Paris - is fired from her job of fourteen years without explanation or warning. Later that night, while watching TV, she learns that certain media outlets are linking her, through speculation, to jihadist circles. This all occurs only days after Soumaya's apartment, where she lives with her young daughter, is raided by police....
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c1955
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Millionaire playboy Jervis Pendleton III becomes enamored with a young woman living in a French orphanage, and decides to anonymously sponsor her college education in America. When they finally meet face-to-face two years later, romance blossoms but is complicated by Jervis's hesitance towards their age differences.
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Maintaining a household and stoically submitting to conjugal duty are the skills Paulette Van Der Beck teaches with fervor in her homemaker's institute. Her certainties are shaken when she finds herself widowed and ruined. Is she rattled by the return of her first love or the wind of freedom in May '68? What if the good wife finally became a free woman?
Series
Criterion collection volume 297
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
"A profound masterpiece from one of the most revered filmmakers in the history of cinema ... follows the donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly. Through Bresson's unconventional...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (153 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. A plot is set in motion to kill the Nazis at the theater's movie premier, including Adolph...
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
[Full screen version.]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (414 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story of British women working as undercover agents in France during WWII, this compelling series comes to a thrilling close in these final eight episodes.
12) Madame Bovary
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
16/9 aspect ration (widescreen).
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Desperate to escape the dullness of provincial life, a young married woman pursues forbidden fantasies through a series of indiscreet seductions and adulterous affairs. Based on the acclaimed novel by Gustave Flaubert which transformed the Romantic era.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1172
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (214 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Marguerite Duras had already established herself as one of the major figures of postwar French literature when she launched an equally fascinating and unclassifiable career in cinema, translating her elliptical, experimental style to the screen through the unprecedented fusion of hypnotic, highly stylized imagery and radically disjunctive sound. Boldly reimagining the possibilities of dialogue, music, silence, and architectural space, the tantalizing,...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
©2014.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Shows Camille Claudel, a protégé and mistress of Auguste Rodin, in 1915 when she was imprisoned in an insane asylum. Camille was also the sister of the Christian mystic poet Paul Claudel, the last of her family to pay her regular visits. Inspired by the correspondence between Paul and Camille, the movie focuses on Camille 's struggle to maintain a sense of normalcy in a crowd of schizophrenics. Suffering from bouts of paranoia, she focuses on her...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (153 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerrilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. A plot is set in motion to kill the Nazis at the theater's movie premier, including Adolph...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
2-disc special ed., [Widescreen format].
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (153 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerrilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. A plot is set in motion to kill the Nazi leadership, including Adolph Hitler, at a movie premiere....
17) Fatima
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (78 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
"Named the best French film of 2016 by the César Awards, Fatima is a brilliant and moving tale about what it means to be an immigrant today. It was inspired by the life of North African poet Fatima Elayoubi, who immigrated knowing little French and slowly taught herself the language. Fatima (Soria Zeroual) lives with her two teenage daughters in Lyon, and works cleaning jobs to pay their way through school. She is a woman pressured by her children...
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