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2) La poison
Series
Criterion collection volume 891
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Description
After thirty years together, a village gardener and his wife find themselves contemplating how to do away with each other, with the former even planning how he'll negotiate his eventual criminal trial.
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Leon is not like most ten-year olds. This innocent-looking boy with an overly fertile imagination is a young hellion, a consummate liar and thief well versed in breaking and entering his neighbors' homes and running away from his own. When his mom decides to pack up and leave for Greece, Leon does so much to keep her there.
Series
Criterion collection volume 102
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Français
Description
Several bourgeois friends planning to get together for dinner experience a succession of highly unusual occurrences that interfere with their expected dining enjoyment.
Series
Criterion collection volume 290
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Français
Description
A perverse, playfully absurd comedy with a series of surreal sequences touching on many of the themes that preoccupied Bunuel through his career - from the hypocrisy of conventional morality to the arbitrariness of social arrangements.
7) La poison
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It is the black comedy is the quintessential depiction of a marriage gone sour: after thirty years together, a village gardener and his wife find themselves contemplating how to do away with each other, with the former even planning how he'll negotiate his eventual criminal trial.
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It is a morality tale with fairy-tale inflections that focuses on Boris Malinovsky, an affluent, successful businessman who comports himself with an extreme degree of pride and arrogance. When his wife, a Minister of the Canadian Government, is rendered nearly catatonic by a mysterious depression, it triggers a series of events that brings Boris to the point of professional, personal, and even existential crisis.
Series
Criterion collection volume 143
Language
Français
Description
Just after boarding a train, a young man pours a bucket of water over a young girl on the platform. Over the next few hours he explains to the other passengers how he became obsessed with the girl.