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2) Seaside
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English
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Seaside is a film about Cayeux, a small beach town in France. Beautiful young Marie works at a pebble processing plant. Her boyfriend, Paul, a warehouse employee in winter and a lifeguard in summer, doesn’t understand Marie’s dreamy temperament and stifles her with his clumsy love. The people who vacation in Cayeux remind Marie that youthful dreams lie elsewhere. She wants to leave, and when Albert, a young executive at the plant gets fired, he...
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Français
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George Riley has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Three couples react to the news with various degrees of emotion. The women are each separately invited to a seaside resort by Riley, and hidden resentments and insecurities in each relationship bubble to the surface, causing a re-evaluation of each couple's love.
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Rube & Mandy at Coney Island: Sweethearts head to Coney Island for a delightful day of diversions highlighted by trips to Luna Park, rides on the mechanical horses and a camel, a ropewalk, a splashdown boat ride all topped off by a Coney Island Hot Dog. The wonderful architecture and ambiance of this lost world at the turn of the century, is tenderly preserved in this rare short. Filmed in 1903 at Coney Island in New York, New York.
Coney Island:...
Series
Criterion collection volume 729
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Français
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Jour de fête: In this enchanting debut feature, Jacques Tati stars as a fussbudget of a postman who is thrown for a loop when a traveling fair comes to his village.
Monsieur Hulot's holiday: Monsieur Hulot takes a holiday, at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another.
Mon oncle: A supremely amusing satire of mechanized living and consumer society.
Playtime: A nearly wordless comedy about confusion in an age of...