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Patricia Lumumba and Emile Rousseau stumble across each other one night in an abandoned television studio. They meet for seven evenings to carry out a three-year plan to create a new cinema. In the first year, images and sounds are collected and experimented with. In the second year all that has been collected is criticized, decomposed, and recomposed to bring forth, in the third year, ideal building blocks for a new cinema.Read More »
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One of the most important documentary films made in France, Paris 1900 vividly conveys the mood of a world in transition, from the exuberance of the belle époque to the shattering folly of world war. Although much of material in the film is trivial (tastes in fashion, the pastimes of the wealthy elite, and such like), it contains many historically important images. Most memorable is the rare footage of such figures as artist Claude Monet, writer Edmond Rostand (author of Cyrano de Bergerac), filmmaker Ferdinand Zecca, not to mention a sequence where a young Maurice Chevalier gives his impression of cabaret performer Félix Mayol, in the company of Mistinguet.Read More »
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Plot Summary: In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder (she’s myopic and hates her reputation as a dunce and as easy); she moves in with him, knits baby clothes, and plans their wedding. Is this love or some kind of plot? She asks Pin-Pon’s mother and aunt about the piano in the barn: who delivered it on a November night in 1955? Why does she want to know, and what does it have to do with her mother’s sorrows, her father’s injury, this quick marriage, and the last name on her birth certificate?Read More »
Forty-something Antoine is an accomplished photographer who, unable to put his talents to good use, wallows in solitude and self-pity. He lives alone, his only friend being a little boy, the son of one of his neighbours. One morning, Antoine is profoundly moved by the sound of piano playing coming from a building nearby. The music haunts him and within no time he has become obsessed with the piano player, an attractive young student named Elena who is on the brink of committing suicide… ~ filmsdefrance
Antoine is a joyful but disenchanted photographer. His only true friend, Mateo, is 7 years old and the son of his neighbor, who is often absent. One day, he hears a piano sonata coming from the building across the courtyard. Mesmerized by the music, he becomes obsessed by Elena, the beautiful but mysterious pianist, and starts to photograph her at every opportunity. An intense relationship develops between fragile and idealistic Elena and Antoine, who is transformed by this encounter. ~ myfrenchfilmfestivalRead More »
They arrived at dusk at our home. One from Hiroshima, the other from Roma… a tale of the two cities…
Another v . . . . e (visite/voyage/visage) paying tributes to Pasolini and Mizoguchi through our guests and to Japanese art seen by Eisenstein in the early 1920s…
Two little parts, both based on the addition and soustraction of kanji signs as process of montage.Read More »
Isabelle is on summer holidays with her family in the in the south of France. She decides to lose her virginity to a German boy called Felix, but the experience leaves her cold. By autumn she is exploring her sexuality further by working as a prostitute under the name Lea and meeting an older man called George, and various other clients. During one encounter with George he dies from a heart attack, Isabelle leaves the scene, and quits prostitution. The police eventually track her down and reveal her secret life to her mother.Read More »
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Gary, an unskilled young man, lands a job as a decontamination sub-contractor at a nuclear power plant in the lower valley of the Rhone. Inducted into the workforce by supervisor Gilles and veteran Toni, Gary discovers that radiation contamination is not just a risk factor but an everyday hazard. At the same time, he begins an illicit affair with Karole, the fiancée of Toni.
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“Well into middle-age, Casanova finds himself wandering purposelessly in the South of France, accompanied by his ever-loyal valet Camille. Weary and almost penniless, the legendary seducer yearns to return to his native Venice, but cannot do so until he receives written permission from the authorities. One day, he meets Olivo, an old friend who invites him to stay in his country house. Casanova gladly accepts and learns that Olivo’s wife, Amelie, is one of his former conquests. Whilst Amelie tries in vain to rekindle his erstwhile passion for her, Casanova’s attentions are fixed on Marcolina, his host’s beautiful niece. To Casanova’s horror and incredulity, Marcolina, a woman of rare intelligence and sophistication, fails to find him the least bit attractive. It seems her heart is already given – to a dashing young military man named Lorenzi…”
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