Synopsis
François Perrin plays football at the AS Trincamp. During a training session, he gets into a fight with Bertier, the team’s star, and is ordered off the field. The club’s boss, who is also a powerful businessman, takes advantage of the situation and sacks him… But Perrin’s revenge will be sweet.

2.22GB | 1h 28m | 956×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/A2E47B8DD30263D/Coup.de.tete.1979.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):French+Audio Commentary (JJ Annaud)
Subtitles:English,French

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It is French Colonial Vietnam in 1929. A young French girl from a family that is having some monetary difficulties is returning to boarding school. She is alone on public transportation when she catches the eye of a wealthy Chinese businessman. He offers her a ride into town in the back of his chauffeured sedan, and sparks fly. Can the torrid affair that ensues between them overcome the class restrictions and social mores of that time? Based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Maugerite Duras.

3.26GB | 1h 55m | 1024×552 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/4764D06B5C56EB5/L’amant.1992.BDRip.x264-FuFu.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English,French muxed

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Quote:
“Fire was a symbol of power and a means of survival. The tribe who possessed fire, possessed life.” – Opening title card

That is the last piece of modern language iterated by the film. The filmmakers transport us 80,000 years into the past, to the Middle Palaeolithic era. The subsequent complex creation of communication was formulated by linguist and author Anthony Burgess (A CLOCKWORK ORANGE), zoologist Desmond Morris, and actors in advance formulating a gesture-based relay of thoughts. Without subtitles, QUEST FOR FIRE is a unique experience. When the cast come to interact in front of us, you’ll be swept along, understanding what is being suggested. Don’t for one minute think you’re in for a dry history lesson though. It is a thriller concerning the very essentials on Abraham Maslow’s pyramid of need. The extrapolations of what it must have been like struggling for survival without the ability to create fire are turned into a moving and visceral adventure. We are just before the dawn of civilisation, as Homo sapiens are soon to learn to harness flames.

Immediately fire’s importance is demonstrated: Cooking (in the loosest sense of course), warmth, sharpening weapons, scaring off predators. The tribe has assigned its own keeper of the flame. It is jealously guarded from the outside world. Once it is extinguished, they do not know how to start another, and have to wait for a natural phenomenon. The physicality of the talented performers show what’s at stake. Quickly, another tribe attacks them, further behind on the evolutionary ladder, though a formidable opponent: Neanderthal man. They covet their fire. It goes out, no one gets it. The casualties are numerous. The audience is given a lesson in the brutality of the age, woven into the narrative until fear pervades when the creative team desire it of us. The tone set, the survivors send off a small band, to seek out a new flame source, of three young warriors: Amoukar (Ron Perlman), Gaw (Nameer El-Kadi) and bright inquisitive group leader Naoh (Everett McGill).

Director Jean-Jacques Annaud and cinematographer Claude Agostini give the locations a vast uninhabited wonder. Jeopardy is never far – wolves, sabre tooth tigers; and then another tribe of Neanderthals, who begin to hunt them when they steal their flame and inadvertently allow their dinner to escape – Ika (Rae Dawn Chong). They are slowly feeding off her compatriot, which sends off chilling echoes of Cormac McCarthy’s THE ROAD. Ika, though from the most sophisticated tribe of the film, is drawn to Naoh. As team leader, he becomes torn between returning the fire to his people, or following Ika back to her tribe.

Like the best cinematic rides, QUEST FOR FIRE is emotional, allowing the characters to develop and for our affection to grow. Silent films have of course achieved this for decades, but the people in front of us here are only meant to know about 100 words. To have a compelling story, with that straightjacket, is all the more impressive. Over 30 years since its initial release, the charge has not dissipated, and perhaps even been enhanced in the light of Werner Herzog’s documentary CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS (see the weapons scene), and in contrast to the dire 10,000 BC.

2.37GB | 1h 40m | 1024×432 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/3BEB028B0B46994/Jean-Jacques_Annaud_-_(1981)_Quest_for_Fire.mkv

Language(s):None
Subtitles:No

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Synopsis:
French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population. Issuing them boots and rifles, the French attempt to make “proper” soldiers out of the Africans. A young, idealistic French geographer seems to be the only rational person in the town, and he takes over control of the “war” after several bungles on the part of the others. (IMDb)

Black and White in Color is a voracious and timely satire on racism, colonialism, and war. Set in the Ivory Coast during the First World War, a group of bungling French colonials learns that their country is at war with Germany. Spurred on by a capricious moment of patriotism, the Frenchmen decide to attack their German neighbors. (amazon.com)

Extras included:
1. Arthur Cohn – Producer’s Perspective
2. Interview – Jean-Jacques Annaud & Arthur Cohn (2003)
(Both the extras are in English without subtitles)

1.28GB | 1h 31mn | 814×480 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/8446F8FB3C96F6A/Black_and_White_in_Color_(1976)_–_Jean-Jacques_Annaud.part1.rar https://nitro.download/view/0B8D295DB3C77F5/Black_and_White_in_Color_(1976)_–_Jean-Jacques_Annaud.part2.rar

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English (muxed, srt)

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