In this thriller, a UNESCO translator stumbles across a group which is hiding and supporting Nazis and facilitating their travel around the world. She had been given an assignment to study the work of a writer who recently had died, and the conspiracy is revealed in materials he left behind. She comes upon a young man who is going through the writer’s papers, and she immediately assumes he must be one of the conspirators. However, he soon convinces her of his innocence in that regard, and the two together begin a search for the ringleader.

1.62GB | 1 h 46 min | 1013×548 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/7B6C60B735195ED/Short.Memory.1979.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language:French
Subtitles:English

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Synopsis:
An English novelist is lured, with disconcerting and disorienting results, into purchasing a crumbling mansion by what he imagines are the deliberately ‘literary’ ploys of its housekeeper (Leslie Caron) and two mysterious, lurking women.

Review:
As a scriptwriter (mainly for Rivette and Bertolucci), de Gregorio repeatedly subverted narrative expectations, and here – his first feature as writer/director – he indulges in the perilous but pleasing game of developing the characters played by Bulle Ogier and Marie-France Pisier in the film-within-the-film of Rivette’s Céline and Julie. An English novelist (Corin Redgrave) is lured, with disconcerting and disorienting results, into purchasing a crumbling mansion by what he imagines are the deliberately ‘literary’ ploys of its housekeeper (Leslie Caron) and two mysterious, lurking women. Richly photographed, what starts as a slightly self-conscious exercise develops, after many deceptive twists, into an intriguing and gratifying sensual entertainment.

— TimeOut.

1.36GB | 1h 26mn | 1018×476 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/F7D14224CEFB05A/Surreal_Estate_(1976)_–_Eduardo_de_Gregorio.mkv

Language:French, English
Subtitles:English (muxed), French (hardcoded for the English parts)

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