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Andrea Richler is a well-known director who returns to her home town of Montreal to film a high-budget musical drama. At her hotel, she has a brief but unsettling encounter with a suicidal elderly woman named Estelle. This is briefly forgotten until later when she meets the same lady again and with mounting incredulity Andrea discovers that the actual events in the woman’s life mirror the fictional events in her film.

2.62GB | 1h 29m | 1206×720 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/1670FE2E6F1BE93/La_femme_de_l’hotel-v99.mkv

Language:French
Subtitles:English

The post Léa Pool – La femme de l’hôtel AKA A Woman in Transit (1984) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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The most exuberant set piece in the acutely sensitive Set Me Freefinds two girls blithely spurning the puppy-dog attentions of the boys at a dance party to hold hands and exchange gazes. As in much of her autobiographical coming-of-age tale, director Léa Pool uses long, steady close-ups to limn the girls’ discovery of each other, coaxing tender, unaffected performances from her two young actresses. They stand on the precarious threshold of adolescence, when physical love has not yet divided into erotic and platonic categories.

Set Me Free ponders how a young person can make a livable home out of this liminal space yet flee its restrictions as quickly as possible. Karine Vanasse, as the protagonist Hanna, is perfectly cast because she has the body of a woman and the sweet, sexless face of a child. Her character, growing up in Montreal during the early ’60s, craves embrace, and she seeks it out from her parents, teacher, brother, and best friend Laura—these last two and Hanna even form a spin-the-bottle love triangle. Not yet 14, Hanna is already searching for an escape hatch from her loving but claustrophobic and emotionally volatile household, where her delicate mother (Pascale Bussières), a Catholic with something of a martyr complex, works long hours as a seamstress to support her children and husband (Miki Manojiovic), a Polish Jew and combative aspiring poet who all but refuses to work a paying job. Seeking refuge in the cinema, Hanna becomes obsessed with the existential Parisian prostitute Nana in Godard’s Vivre Sa Vie, memorizing lines, mimicking her carriage, even finding Anna Karina’s doppelgänger in her sympathetic teacher (Nancy Huston). With generous excerpts from Vivre Sa Viewoven throughout, Set Me Free becomes a movie within a movie, but Pool’s meta-narrative leanings always serve empathic character study. Her film is a tribute to cinema love and all of its engendering possibilities. The movies made Hanna, for better and worse, and by the end of Set Me Free, Hanna is making movies.

1.76GB | 1h 35m | 706×529 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/05930CDAE0A38B9/Emporte.Moi.1999.DVDRip.x264.mkv

Language:French
Subtitles:English

The post Léa Pool – Emporte-moi AKA Set Me Free (1999) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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A war photographer returns home to Montréal to discover that his two partners have left him to be together. Alone in the city, he photographs what he sees, trying to heal both his war memories and a broken heart.

1.74GB | 1 h 47 min | 1024×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/5ED364779C9ABA7/À_corps_perdu.1988.TVRiP.Xvid-NOTAG.mkv
https://nitroflare.com/view/52DAB4A79A5056E/À_corps_perdu.1988.TVRiP.Xvid-NOTAG_v2.srt
or
https://nitroflare.com/view/2FD068585063D0E/À_corps_perdu.1988.TVRiP.Xvid-NOTAG.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/8AA40F150A03741/À_corps_perdu.1988.TVRiP.Xvid-NOTAG.part2.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/52DAB4A79A5056E/À_corps_perdu.1988.TVRiP.Xvid-NOTAG_v2.srt

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English,Spanish (hardcoded)

The post Léa Pool – À corps perdu (1988) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

In a small convent school in rural Quebec, Mother Augustine provides a musical education to young women no matter their socio-economic background. However, with the looming changes brought by Vatican II and Quebec’s Quiet Revolution, the school’s future is at peril.

7.09GB | 1 h 43 min | 1920×1040 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/606A71D16248EF5/La.Passion.d’Augustine.2015.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-KAIZEN.mkv

Language:French
Subtitles:English,Dutch,German,Portuguesse,Italian

The post Léa Pool – La passion d’Augustine (2015) (HD) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Breast cancer has become the poster child of corporate cause-related marketing campaigns. Countless women and men walk, bike, climb and shop for the cure. Each year, millions of dollars are raised in the name of breast cancer, but where does this money go and what does it actually achieve? Pink Ribbons, Inc. is a feature documentary that shows how the devastating reality of breast cancer, which marketing experts have labeled a “dream cause,” becomes obfuscated by a shiny, pink story of success.

1.46GB | 1:37:52 | 704×400 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/36D3BDD10F1A96A/PinkRibbonsinc.avi

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

The post Léa Pool – Pink Ribbons, Inc. (2011) first appeared on Cinema of the World.