A Tale Of Springtime (aka: Conte de Printemps): The first part of Rohmer's 'Four Seasons' quartet of films. The well-ordered life of Jeanne a high school philosophy teacher suddenly spins into disorder when a young stranger she meets at a party involves her in a devilish scheme. Natacha an adolescent pianist with a penchant for subtly playing her elders invites Jeanne to her father's home...hoping to make a match of the two and send her father's current lover Eve packing
She gave her innocence her passion her body. The one thing she couldn't give was her love. Indochina 1929. On a ferry a 27-year-old Chinese man spots an alluring but poor French teenager. They soon begin a forbidden but fiercely passionate romance. While the man truly loves the girl she remains aloof for her involvement with him is more out of rebellion towards her family -- and for sexual excitement -- rather than love. However when the gentleman is forced to marry a wom
In this modern-day comedy of manners, American sisters Isabel (Kate Hudson) and Roxeanne (Naomi Watts) come face to face with the complicated social mores of French society.
Multi-awarding 23-year-old filmmaker Xavier Dolan writes and directs his most ambitious feature to date - Laurence Anyways, the epic love story of a man (Melvil Poupaud) who decides to undergo a sex change and thedramatic effect it has on his relationship with his girlfriend (Suzanne Clement). Thought-provoking and stylishly shot the film dazzles, featuring music from Fever Ray, The Cure, Duran Duran, Visage, Depeche Mode and Scottish composer Craig Armstrong. Laurence Anyways is Dolan's third award-winning film following on from I Killed My Mother (also starring Clment) and Heartbeats. Special Features: Filmed interview with Suzanne Clement and Melvil Popaud Trailer
Celebrated writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve (Things to Come, Father of My Children) makes a wise and wistful return with ONE FINE MORNING, a profoundly moving portrayal of love, loss and contemporary womanhood, featuring a career-best performance from Léa Seydoux. Set in Paris, Seydoux plays Sandra - a young, widowed mother who juggles her job as a translator with caring both for her young daughter and elderly father. Sandra's life is further complicated when she embarks on a passionate affair with Clement, an old friend in an unhappy marriage. Also starring Melvil Poupaud and Pascal Gregory, this Cannes Film Festival award-winner is a gently poignant romantic drama shot through with the director's characteristically charming touch.
Arnaud Desplechin comes home for Christmas in his outrageous daring and emotionally bountiful new movie. Catherine Deneuve is Junon the family matriarch who greets the news of her life-threatening illness with calm equanimity. Jean-Paul Roussillon is her wise tender husband. Desplechin regular Mathieu Amalric is the black sheep banished from the family by his imperious sister (Anne Consigny both actors last seen in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) who arrives with his bemused Jewish girlfriend in tow (Emmanuelle Devos). Melvil Poupaud is the most sensitive of the children happily married to the divine Chiara Mastroianni. It''s hard to miss with such a cast but A Christmas Tale is much much more than a good ensemble comedy. In this midwinter night''s dream unrequited love collides with bitter resentment nostalgic longing crosses paths with abject fear and pure hatred gives way to vivacious affection.
Episode Comprise: I Killed my Mother: Hubert Minel has a love/hate relationship with his mother. Desperate to escape the suffocating atmosphere of his mother's working-class, suburban home, Hubert drifts through the mysteries of an adolescence both marginal and typical: artistic discoveries, illicit experiences, the opening-up to friendship, sex, and ostracism. Heartbeats: Francis and Marie are close friends. One day, during a lunch, they meet Nicolas, a young man from the country newly arrived in town. Each of the two friends slides deeper into obsessive fantasies around their object of desire, and the deeper they slide, the more their once cast-iron friendship begins to crack under the pressure of competing for the new kid on the block. Laurence Anyways: The epic love story of a man (Melvil Poupaud) who decides to undergo a sex change and thedramatic effect it has on his relationship with his girlfriend (Suzanne Clment). Thought-provoking and stylishly shot the film dazzles, featuring music from Fever Ray, The Cure, Duran Duran, Visage, Depeche Mode and Scottish composer Craig Armstrong. Special Features: Filmed interview with Suzanne Clement and Melvil Poupaud Trailer
One of Francois Ozon's most intimate and lyrical work 'Time to Leave' features a moving performance from Melvil Poupaud as a 30 year-old man facing up to the reality of his own mortality. With his perfect life thrown into chaos by the shock diagnosis of a serious illness fashion photographer Romain finds himself unable to share the news with his boyfriend or family confiding instead only in his grandmother (affectingly played by screen legend Jeanne Moreau). But anger and denial give way to an acceptance of sorts when a chance encounter with a waitress (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) offers Romain a glimmer of hope and the unexpected chance to leave something of himself behind.
Alice is a 30 year-old sailor, in love with Félix who waits for her ashore as she unexpectedly sets off as second mechanic on the Fidelio, an old freighter. On board, she discovers not only that she replaces a recently deceased mechanic, but also that the Captain is none other than her first great love, Gaël. In her cabin Alice comes across the diary of the former mechanic, and by reading its content accounts of technical problems, sexual conquests and lovelorn emotions she finds, oddly, that they echo her own journey. As the ship calls at various ports, Alice deals with life aboard with an all-male crew, the notion of desire in such an environment and the swings of her romantic feelings, while trying to stay the course.
'A Summer's Tale' is the third part of Eric Rohmer's 'Four Seasons' quartet of films which includes 'Autumn Tale' 'Tale Of Winter' and 'Tale Of Springtime'. A shy young man named Gaspard (Poupaud) takes a vacation in a small village of Normandy France to meet his girlfriend Lena. During an unsuccessful attempt to locate Lena he meets Margot (Langlet) a pretty local servant girl. They become fast friends and soon Gaspard finds himself physically attracted to Margot but she has
The Refuge
Gaspard and Marion are in love and enjoying summer in the south of France... until they stumble upon a lost cell phone. At first they decide to track down the owner... But the game takes a much darker turn when they find him dead in a mysterious suicide ceremony. Next to him lies a half unconscious girl Audrey. With her enigmatic tattoo and her gothic looks she soon lures Gaspard into Black Hole a dangerously addictive video game.
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