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Criterion collection volume 318
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A timeless evocation of the loss of innocence, Rene Clement's devastating Forbidden games tells the story of a young orphan and her friend forced to fend for themselves in World War II France.
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At the turn of the 19th century, a humble artisan and his wife have a daughter, Marie, who is born deaf and blind and unable to communicate with the world around her. Desperate to find a connection to their daughter and avoid sending her to an asylum, the Heurtins send fourteen-year-old Marie to the Larnay Institute in central France, where an order of Catholic nuns manage a school for deaf girls. There, the idealistic Sister Marguerite sees in Marie...
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"This French first reader series introduces foundational vocabulary and pre-reading skills to early beginners ... Developed with teachers and curriculum experts, our unique Spot Color Immersion Method makes language learning fun and achievable for beginners. Step by step, these deceptively simple readers weave first words and phrases into short stories that make kids laugh and forget they are actually learning. Aided by visual cues, repetition and...
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"This story-based learning series introduces more high-frequency vocabulary and phrases for beginners. Ten flashcard stories feature: 100 new thematic nouns and phrases ; verbs, pronouns, adjectives, prepositions; abstract concepts like feelings, skills, hopes, and dreams; and more phrases. Set 2 continues to build vocabulary and pre-reading skills through our Spot Color Immersion Method. Sentences are slightly longer, but still simple enough to build...
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Inspired by the filmmaker's family history, Fabien Gorgeart's heartfelt, heartbreaking second feature focuses on an excruciating period in one family's life. Anna, her husband, and their two young sons are told they must hand six-year-old Simon, the foster child they've raised since he was eighteen months old, over to his 'real' father. Powerless before a social services system that fails to understand the powerful emotional ties that inevitably form...
7) In her name
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A gripping and emotional legal drama based on a true story that moved France for three decades. In 1982, Andre Bamberski learns about the death of his fourteen year-old daughter, Kalinka. Convinced that Kalinka's death was not an accident, Bamberski begins to investigate. A botched autopsy report raises his suspicions and leads him to accuse Kalinka's stepfather of the murder.
8) Custody
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A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the center, a domestic thriller that will keep audiences guessing and leave them with their hearts in their throats. Miriam and Antoine Besson have divorced, and Miriam is seeking sole custody of their son Julien to protect him from a father she claims is violent. Antoine pleads his case as a scorned dad whose son has been turned against him by his vindictive mother.
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"Les arbres ondulent, le ciel gronde et la pluie arrive! Découvrez les aventures d'une fillette et de son chien sous la pluie. Des bottes en caoutchouc, des parapluies colorés et des flaques séduisantes les accompagnent! Mais le plaisir ne s'arrête pas là! Il y a aussi plein de choses à faire une fois à la maison, au chaud et bien installés. Que se passe-t-il après la tempête? Cet album coloré, au texte lyrique et aux douces illustrations...
10) Tomboy
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"Laure is 10 years old and a tomboy. On arrival in a new neighborhood, she lets Lisa and her crowd believe that she is a boy. Summer becomes a big playground and Laure pretends to be "Mikael", a boy like the others, different enough to get the attention of Lisa, who falls in love with him. Laure takes advantage of her new identity as if the end of the summer would never reveal her unsettling secret."--Container.
12) Petite maman
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Criterion collection volume 1181
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Céline Sciamma's follow-up to Portrait of a lady on fire transcends time and space to weave a delicately emotional fable about grief, family, and connection across generations. In the wake of her grandmother's death, eight-year-old Nelly accompanies her distraught mother to her childhood home. There, Nelly's encounter with another young girl brings mother and daughter together in a way neither could have ever imagined. Evoking childhood's perpetual...
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"In The Measure of a Man, Vincent Lindon ... gives his finest performance to date as unemployed everyman Thierry, who must submit to a series of quietly humiliating ordeals in his search for work. Futile retraining courses that lead to dead ends, interviews via Skype, a workshop critique of his self-presentation by fellow jobseekers; all are mechanisms that seek to break him down and strip him of identity and self respect. In his award-winning performance,...
14) The class
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Based on Bégaudeau's autobiographical novel. François and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough Paris neighborhood. Armed with the best intentions, they brace themselves to not let discouragement stop them from trying to give the best education to their students. Cultures and attitudes often clash in the classroom, a microcosm of contemporary France. As amusing and inspiring as the teenaged students can be, their...
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Criterion collection volume 330
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Tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss between two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true comaraderie, until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Louis Malle's own childhood, the film is an observed tale of courage, cowardice and tragic awakening.
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Sirius Black, le dangereux criminel qui s'est échappé de la forteresse d'Azkaban, recherche Harry Potter. C'est donc sous bonne garde que l'apprenti sorcier fait sa troisième rentrée. Au program: des cours de divination, la fabrication d'une potion de Ratatinage, le dressage des hippogriffes... Mais Harry est-il vraiment à l'abri du danger qui le menace? Le troisième tome des aventures de Harry Potter vous emportera dans un tourbillon de surprises...
17) A bag of marbles
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This is the true story of two young Jewish brothers in German-occupied France who, with a mind-boggling mix of mischievousness, courage, and ingenuity, will be forced to fend for themselves to survive the enemy invasion and try to bring their family back together. The heartwarming adaptation of Joseph Joffo₂s enduring memoir tells the story of the Nazi occupation through the eyes of the two young Jewish boys. Paris, 1941: Joseph and Maurice are...
19) Le petit prince
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" 'S'il vous plaît..., dessine-moi un mouton !' 'Le Petit Prince' adapté pour les enfants, illustré par les images sublimes et inédites du film créé par des génies de l'animation. Un album plein de tendresse, pour faire découvrir aux plus petits toute la magie du chef-d'oeuvre universel de Saint-Exupéry. Texte original abrégé." -- cover.
"An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little prince from a small...
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Against the stunning backdrop of the snow-covered Alps, young Sebastian meets and tames enormous but gentle mountain dog Belle who becomes his best friend and protector. The loyal pair undertake a treacherous journey during the Second World War when the Nazis arrive and begin rooting out resistance members and Jewish refugees.