Synopsis:
Bertrand Beauvois, a well-known attorney, is in Monte Carlo to defend a businessman’s mother who murdered a gigolo with ties to gangsters. The businessman provides a bodyguard, Christophe, who is thorough and unsmiling. The middle-aged Beauvois is drawn to Audrey, in her 20s, free spirited, a local TV weather girl who once dated Christophe. Although Christophe warns Beauvois to stay away from Audrey, he’s hooked and spends every moment with her he’s not in court. What’s her angle: is she a plant who’ll ruin the case; is Beauvois her toy; is she digging for gold; or, is she genuine? Beauvois loves the wild sex but not her promiscuity. Has Christophe failed to protect him?

La.fille.de.Monaco.2008.1080p.iT.WEB-DL.DD5.1.H.264-BTGM.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 34 min
Size: 	2.91 GiB
Video
Codec: 	h264
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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English (hardcoded)

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Lil (Naomi Watts) and Roz (Robin Wright) are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotions that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention.

… grew in depth to reveal the true theme that is deeply washing over every shot of the screen, the “deep blue sea”, “le moi oceanique”, the deadly ecstasy of an overwhelming sexual desire that comes into a possessing ghost strangling all reason that these human beings hypothetically have. The beach and water theme, the opening and and end shot, and the low-angle shots of the water pulling at the characters’ feet, this desire hovering within the screen waiting to pull them in are the most successful aspects of the film. The beautiful filming that is so well themed and constructed, this relaxed and ecstatic feel that transcends from the screen making the audience feel the exact erotic atmosphere in which the characters dwell and that pull of desire that comes across in the silence and in the sound of the ocean…

1.83GB | 1h 51m | 1024×428 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/ACB6F09CEF3BE91/Anne_Fontaine_-_(2013)_Adore.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:English

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From Stephen Holden review: “La Nuit des Temps, a mildly racy nightclub in the center of the sleepy French town of Belfort, is the equivalent of Pandora’s box in Anne Fontaine’s haunting erotic fable “Dry Cleaning.” Here is where Jean-Marie Kunstler (Charles Berling) and his wife, Nicole (Miou-Miou), a proper, buttoned-up French couple who have been married for 15 years, find themselves one evening watching a slithery gold-lamé-clad brother-sister drag act called the Queens of the Night lip-synch to Sylvie Vartan records.

Jean-Marie and Nicole run a dry-cleaning establishment; what better metaphor for the starchy petit bourgeois life? And when Loïc (Stanislas Merhar), the male member of the duo, shows up at their laundry one day to have his gown cleaned, a casual friendship is struck up that leads the Kunstlers back to the club, where they dance and flirt shyly with Loïc and his sister, Marylin (Mathile Seigner). One thing leads to another, and the two couples adjourn to the apartment above the Kunstlers’ shop where Loïc and his sister offer to have sex with them for money. Although Nicole is eager to play, Jean-Marie gets cold feet and abruptly calls off the swinging session.(…) “Dry Cleaning” presents the Kunstlers as a representative strait-laced couple whose impulse to dabble in dangerous erotic games lands them in deep trouble. Loïc and his “sister” (it’s left unclear what their biological relationship really is, but we get a strong sense that they have been casual lovers since their days together in an orphanage) grew up without any normal sense of boundaries. To people like the Kunstlers, who seem to embody the Gallic equivalent of family values, the brother and sister are temptation incarnate.

The film reminds you of the power and universality of the erotic imagination. Just because some people don’t radiate overt sexuality doesn’t mean that somewhere in the back of their minds they can’t imagine themselves wantonly kicking over the traces and surrendering to passion. A glimpse of the possibility is there inside all of us. “

1.36GB | 1h 33m | 706×441 | mkv

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https://nitroflare.com/view/4F865E4DE3D8D93/Dry.Cleaning.1997.DVDRip.x264.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/763E620B43F6272/Dry.Cleaning.1997.DVDRip.x264.part2.rar

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English hardsubbed

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“Becoming someone else: oneself…, to pull out your heart and take off running.” This is the starting point in darkness and light that inspired French filmmaker Anne Fontaine to make Reinventing Marvin [+], premiered at the 74th Venice Film Festival in the Orizzonti section. An existential journey that starts as “a radical experience of exile” because “the poor, sad, gay child is totally out of place, is a stranger in his own home, within his own family.” This individual in internal exile is Marvin Bijoux (played at age 14 by Jules Porier and then by Finnegan Oldfield as a young man) who has an immense amount in common with the adolescent protagonist of Edouard Louis’s shocking autobiographical novel The End of Eddy, the bestseller from 2014 that served as the trigger for the script written by Anne Fontaine and Pierre Trividic, but the duo have deviated from the same by imagining his escape into a world that is larger than the small village he was born in.

Marvin lives in the Vosges Mountains, in a very humble social class where culture is non-existant and human interactions are brusque. You eat chips for dinner before switching on the telly, the father (Grégory Gadebois) is constantly tinkering about while mostly thinking about his next drink, and Marvin, a delicate, sensitive and shy adolescent in a universe of “brutes” who has been nicknamed “the skeleton” by his mother (Catherine Salée), shares a room with his younger brother and his older step-brother. Most importantly, he is subjected to violent homophobic harassment at school, which makes him question his sexual identity even more when he finds out that his family is also asking questions of their own (“why does he embarrass us like this with his faggot ways?”) and that for his father, homosexuality is “something degenerate, like a kind of mental illness.”

Considered a desert rose trapped in an environment where machismo rules, Marvin, nonetheless, chances upon a way out in the form of an improvisation course at school and the well-meaning support of the school principal (Catherine Mouchet). Selected in an audition for the theatre course at Epinal high school, he leaves his family (albeit with difficulty) and goes to boarding school. This is a turning point that will be followed by three other propitious meetings a few years later: with Abel (Vincent Macaigne), professor at the centre for dramatic arts in Nancy who takes him under his protective wing and introduces him to Paris, followed by Roland (Charles Berling) who opens the doors to a wealthy artistic world in which Marvin feels out of place (“the torment of a little faggot who has found a shortcut by jumping from bed to bed”), but also where he meets a certain Isabelle Huppert who (in her own way) helps him to take his story to the stage. It is a performance where Marvin’s family is positively crucified, which has consequences on the life of the young man who has succeeded in creating a new identity by artistically expressing his deep unease, while at the same time being fully aware of where he comes from..

“What is within us is what counts.” This is the search that is brought to the screen by Anne Fontaine using very sophisticated editing, alternating between the different eras of Marvin’s journey. Flash forwards, voice offs and texts written by the young man that explain past events: The filmmaker very skilfully weaves a tale where the actors deliver exceptional performances (special mention for the charismatic Finnegan Oldfield). While the story of this “ugly duckling” and his “guardian angels” might seem a bit too much like a fairy tale to some, the air of melancholy infused by the filmmaker gives Reinventing Marvin a seal of authenticity that makes this feature film masterful and moving.

http://nitroflare.com/view/698FE198B0EE357/Anne_Fontaine_-_%282017%29_Marvin.mkv

Language(s):French, English
Subtitles:none

The post Anne Fontaine – Marvin ou la belle éducation AKA Marvin (2017) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A pair of childhood friends and neighbors fall for each other’s sons.

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http://www.nitroflare.com/view/401F3C148D0F496/5rFF-adore480p.srt

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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Quote:
A rich woman hires an elite prostitute in order to verify her husband’s faithfulness. Before long the experiment gets out of control.

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Nathalie is the name a Parisian prostitute assumes for a special mission or “private investigation.” She is engaged in this unusual and secretive task by a professional, upper-middle-class wife who fears that her husband is unfaithful to her. Nathalie has to seduce the clueless husband and regularly report all details of her relationship with him, including his most intimate sexual preferences in bed. Nathalie is stunning, charming, and cunning. Can Nathalie and her reports to the mistrustful wife be trusted? Is the middle aged husband indeed unfaithful?

Extras (with hard English subs):
* Making of (28:30)
* Trailer (1:45)

1.38GB | 1h 45m | 704×304 | avi

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https://nitro.download/view/31C9EBBF6995A21/Making_of.avi
https://nitro.download/view/0CE9379B74BCA72/Trailer.avi

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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