Le Plaisir based on the stories of Guy du Maupassant takes a gently wistful approach to the subject of love and desire through its three tales. Le Masque is the melancholy story of an old man as a veritable dancing wax museum figure hopelessly grasping for his lost youth in a nightly masquerade. La Maison Tellier ""a fairy tale for adults "" in the words of the narrator (Jean Servais playing Maupassant) is a delightful tale of a local brothel that closes for a night for a visit to the country where the ladies have gone to celebrate a young girl's first communion. Jean Gabin is delightful as the charming country bumpkin who plays host to the troupe and becomes sweetly smitten with flirty Danielle Darrieux. The finale Le Modele stars Daniel Glin and Simone Simon as young lovers whose imminent breakup heads toward tragedy but takes a fateful turn both sad and sweet. Le Plaisir is a delicate portrait of love and desire. A favourite film of Jean-Luc Godard who called it ""the greatest film made in France since the liberation"".
'Bande A Part' is Jean-Luc Godard's playful tribute to the Hollywood pulp crime movies of the 1940s executed with typically Gallic cool. Franz and Arthur a couple of streetwise characters team up with the shy Odile (Anna Karina) to plan a robbery. As the trio of misfits does a lightning tour of the Louvre roams the cafes of suburban Paris and play-acts shoot-outs the suspicion grows that this is one heist that is not going to go according to plan...
Available on DVD for the first time! This little-seen French drama chronicles the intertwining paths of lowlifes and criminals living in a Paris hotel telling the story in two overlapping narratives. In the first strand an unhappily married couple Franoise and Emile Chenal (Nathalie Baye and Claude Brasseur) tries to collect a debt from a boxing manager who has ties to the mob. In the second story a hotel detective and his nephew Inspector Neveu (Jean-Pierre Laud) spend thei
Guilt-ridden after recklessly crashing his car and leaving his daughter severely disfigured celebrated plastic surgeon Dr Gennesier becomes obsessed with restoring her beauty by transplanting a new face onto her mutilated features. Aided by his devoted assistant Louisa young woman are lured back to his home to become unwitting 'donors' in his horrific procedures. Although too much for many critics of the day to stomach Franju's masterpiece is now considered to be one of the greatest most influential and disturbing horror films ever made.
A sociologist researching a book interviews murderess Camille who tells him the story of her life. Put in a reform school as a child for suspected patricide and later transferred to an orphanage she escaped and tricked a young man called Clovis into marrying her. After attempting to kill Clovis' mother she fled to Paris where she began an affair with a night-club singer. Camille has left a trail of destruction and deceit in her wake which now threatens to engulf the sociologist.
A sociologist researching a book interviews murderess Camille who tells him the story of her life. Put in a reform school as a child for suspected patricide and later transferred to an orphanage she escaped and tricked a young man called Clovis into marrying her. After attempting to kill Clovis' mother she fled to Paris where she began an affair with a night-club singer. Camille has left a trail of destruction and deceit in her wake which now threatens to engulf the sociologist.
Danielle (Bernadette Lafont) a grandmother in her sixties is planning to take her two grandchildren to their father's house for the Easter vacation. Since retiring as a schoolteacher Danielle has regularly taken on this responsibility after her daughter's divorce. This time however the children's father is not there to welcome them giving Danielle the opportunity to spend a bit more time with her grandchildren and to take them out for the day. Jumping at every opportunity presented to them Danielle soon transforms this day-outing into an impromptu holiday. Only what starts out as a fun adventure gradually turns into an inexorable deconstructing experience and it soon becomes impossible for Danielle to contemplate taking the kids back...
Stanislas Previne is a young sociologist he meets Camille Bliss who is in prison to interview her as researching for a book entitled Women Criminals... Camille is accused of having murdered her lover Arthur and her husband Clovis. She tells Stanislas her life and her love affairs...
Louise (Fleur Lise Heuet - Cloclo) lives a happy life on her family's ranch in Normandy. However, when tragedy strikes she finds herself alone with her father Pierre (Christopher Lambert - Highlander) and their family friend Robert, and with business moving slowly they are left on the verge of bankruptcy. Louise's only hope at redeeming her family's misfortunes rests with Marquise, a young mare that she raised whilst growing up. Louise must learn to compete as a horse racer and harness the natural gifts of Marquise, and against all odds the pair will fight against their relentless fate to turn their luck around.
On a beach in Nice Franois meets the mysterious Peggy and falls in love with her. Following her to a villa he meets Marc a lawyer who has a strange relationship with the girl. Marc tells Franois that Peggy is a drug addict: she kills men who approach her...
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