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1) Feux rouges
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Antoine and Helene are off to the south of France to pick up their children from camp. They begin to quarrel while on the road. Antoine pulls over for a drink. When he returns, Helene is gone. They both face great danger during the night.
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Criterion collection volume 421
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"Dissatisfied in marriage and life, Ferdinand takes to the road with the babysitter, his ex-lover Marianne Renoir, and leaves the bourgeoisie behind"--Container.
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"Le matin, quand les oiseaux se mettent à chanter et le bébé se réveille, le Bruit frappe à la porte et entre bruyamment. Et le Silence s'en va discrètement. Mais le Silence reviendra quand tu le réclameras, quand tu en auras besoin. Même quand le Bruit est là, au milieu du vacarme."--Back cover.
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Criterion collection volume 593
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Séverine, a Paris housewife, begins secretly spending her afternoon hours working in a bordello in an examination of contemporary social mores and class divisions.
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Criterion collection volume 492
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When steely French matriarch Junon (Catherine Deneuve) learns she has leukemia, she asks her children and grandchildren at the family Christmas gathering to see if they are eligible to become bone marrow donors. This causes deep friction in the family, especially between Junon's daughter Elizabeth (Anne Consigny) and son Henri (Mathieu Amalric), who already have a tumultuous relationship. Their mother's sickness also recalls the traumatic loss of...
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Author Jeanne has her new novel turned down and then begins to question everything. Was that table really located in that corner? Is this my husband? Is that my child? After she morphs into an entirely different person she embarks on a determined quest to uncover the secret hidden in her past that has undermined her world.
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An 8-year-old black child named Victoria is taken in for a night by the wealthy, white, well-intentioned family of one of her schoolmates. The experience haunts her for years to come, shaping her desires and offering a mirage of privilege that she dreams of but finds impossible to attain. As an adult, she drifts from job to job, but then unexpectedly reconnects with the family’s youngest son in an encounter that will reshape her life yet again....
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A poetic comedy about a group of children in a French village as they grow from children to adolescents to adulthood. Truffaut interweaves vignettes of puppy love, school days, bragging rights, trips to the movie house, loving parents and one boy's escape from child abuse, as he explores the range of young emotions from humour to fantasy to the serious side of life.
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"Alain Robbe-Grillet's erotically-charged film portrays a man's obsession with a mysterious woman who steps out of his fantasies. Walter becomes fascinated with Marie-Ange after seeing her in a nightclub. One evening, he finds her bound in the middle of the road. After a surreal night of passion, he awakens the next morning to wonder if it all was just a dream."--Container.
10) Pierrot le fou
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Criterion collection volume 421
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Dissatisfied in marriage and life, Ferdinand takes to the road with the babysitter, his ex-lover Marianne Renoir, and leaves the bourgeois world behind. Yet this is no normal road trip: the tenth feature in six years by Jean-Luc Godard is a stylish mash-up of anti-consumerist satire, au courant politics, and comic-book aesthetics, as well as a violent tale of a romantic couple. This is a high point of the French New Wave, and was Godard's last frolic...
11) La cérémonie
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Criterion collection volume 1199
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The crowning achievement of Claude Chabrol's career is a riveting study of class dynamics and the psychology of crime, starring Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine Bonnaire as a pair of outsiders who form a mysterious alliance that gradually goes haywire.
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Criterion collection volume 655
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As long as you've got your health: A collection four short films. Insomnie: a man can't sleep, and reads about vampires until sunrise, when his wife finally wakes up and reveals her true nature. Le Cinématographe: Employees leaving the work find sitting in a crowded cinema quite a task. Tant qu'on a la santé: in modern times, everyone suffers from stress, and the psychiatrist more than anyone. Nous n'irons plus aux bois: A week-end hunter, a couple...
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Criterion collection volume 572
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In Nazi-occupied France, a devoted priest is desired by all the women of his village, but finds himself most drawn to a religious skeptic who turns their relationship into a confrontation with both God and her own repressed desire.
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The wealthy, white, well-intentioned, family of one of her schoolmates takes in an eight-year-old black child, named Victoria, for a night. The experience haunts her for years to come, shaping her desires and offering a mirage of privilege that she dreams of but finds impossible to attain. As an adult, she drifts from job to job, but then unexpectedly reconnects with the family's youngest son in an encounter that will reshape her life yet again.
18) A Christmas tale
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Criterion collection volume 492
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A dysfunctional family's matriarch brings everyone together at Christmas to inform them she needs a bone marrow transplant from a blood relative in order to survive.
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Qu'on se le dise : un manchot n'est pas un pingouin! Pierrot Manchot lisait le journal dans un parc, quand un ours passa près de lui et le salua poliment: Bonjour, monsieur Pingouin! À ces mots, Pierrot Manchot bondit de son banc, furieux: J'en ai plein le bec, par dessus les nageoires, marre aux canards ! J'en ai assez que tout le monde prenne les manchots pour de pingouins! Il faut que cela cesse!
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La chambre: The camera goes around the room three times, starting at a table, and slowly making its way 360 degrees around the room.
Hotel Monterey: Short film consisting entirely of shots of people walking in and out of a rundown New York hotel.
News from home: Presents a series of abstract and fragmentary images of everyday urban life in 1970s New York City, accompanied by the distinctive narration of filmmaker Chantal Akerman as she dispassionately...