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2) Ridicule
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Fish-out-of-water drama has a minor country aristocrat enter the depraved world of the 18th century court at Versailles.
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The most cherished work from French master Max Ophuls; this is a profoundly emotional, cinematographically adventurous tale of deceptive opulence and tragic romance. When an aristocratic woman known only as Madame de sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay a debt, she sets of a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair.
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Resentful young Parisian chambermaid Celestine finds herself exiled to a position in the provinces where she must humbly submit to the iron rules and pettiness of her high-handed bourgeois mistress while rebuffing the groping advances of Monsieur and contending with her fascination with the brooding gardener, Joseph.
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A provocative adaptation of the classic novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. Updated to present-day France by director Roger Vadim, the film follows Valmont and Juliette as they manipulate each other into having extra-marital affairs. Juliette points Valmont towards the sixteen-year-old Cecile, since she has eyes on Cecile's prospective fianc ̌Court. Sex becomes sport in this deliciously backstabbing drama, which notably features a score by jazz...