What War May Bring is the explosive story of war-torn Europe through the eyes of the beautiful and enigmatic Ilva and two American soldiers, featuring dramatic battle sequences and epic Normandy landing scenes.
An intense study of the clash between medical ideals the first full-length work from Georges Franju (Les yeux sans visage Judex) is a gripping examination of postwar psychiatric care boasting a memorable cast including Pierre Brasseur Anouk Aim''e Charles Aznavour Paul Meurisse and Jean-Pierre Mocky. Mocky plays Fran''ois G''rane an aimless young man whose delinquent tendencies cause his father to have him committed to a psychiatric ward. There under the cold command of Dr. Varmont (Brasseur) he finds himself fighting for his dignity sanity and freedom barely holding on through the new-found love of his girlfriend Stephanie (Aim''e) and the promise of rival Dr. Emery's (Meurisse) more humane techniques. Compassionate yet unflinching La T''te contre les murs is a bold precursor to the likes of Samuel Fuller's Shock Corridor and Milos Forman's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest revealing Franju's poetic gift for creating images both concrete and evocative and an ominous hint of the clinical horrors yet to come in Les yeux sans visage. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present the debut feature of a late-flowering great filmmaker.
French drama starring Laurent Lucas and Helene Fillieres as married couple Philippe and Marion. After ten years of marriage the busy couple can finally afford the time to take a honeymoon. Once they arrive at the train station in Paris they find a bag filled with money and their lives suddenly take an unusual turn.
A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' boarding school. Slowly they reveal themselves to each other... A tender visually breathtaking film of new love sparked between a widowed man and woman 'Un Homme Et Une Femme' was a Grand Prize Winner at Cannes earned Academy Award nominations for Best Actress and Best Direction and won Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film and Best Original Screenplay.
A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' boarding school. Slowly they reveal themselves to each other... A tender visually breathtaking film of new love sparked between a widowed man and woman 'Un Homme Et Une Femme' was a Grand Prize Winner at Cannes earned Academy Award nominations for Best Actress and Best Direction and won Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film and Best Original Screenplay.
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