Romance

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Acclaimed French filmmaker Olivier Assayas follows up on the international success of Fin Août, Début Septembre and Irma Vep with this sweeping adaptation of the sprawling three-volume tome by Jacques Chardonne. Set in three chapters spanning from the beginning of the 1900s to after WWI, the first section takes place in the fictional village of Barbazac, located in the Cognac region. Protestant pastor Jean Barnery (Charles Berling) learns of his wife Nathalie’s (Isabelle Huppert) infidelity from the village grapevine and sends his daughter away. At the same time, 20-year-old Pauline (Emmanuelle Beart) returns to the village after the death of her father. Pauline and Jean are almost immediately attracted to each other when they first meet at a ball. Soon Jean installs Nathalie and their daughter in an apartment, files for divorce, and resigns as minister. Read More »

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A sumptuous period melodrama; a story of aristocratic star-crossed love by one of Mizoguchi’s favorite authors, Matsutaro Kawaguchi (Ugetsu).Read More »

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The night Mari, a high school biology teacher, had a fight with her boyfriend Tamotsu, she took her dog for a walk along the Toyohira River to calm down. There, she meets a strangely dressed man who claims to be a samurai of the Tsugaru clan. Although Mari is surprised, she takes him home. His name is Koyata, and he was chased away by the Ainu during the Shakushain Rebellion that occurred in Hokkaido in the 10th year of the Kanbun era.He desperately wanted to return to his hometown, so on a full moon night in mid-autumn, he asked an old woman to cast a spell that would allow him to return for just one year. , tells Mari and her grandmother Sadako that she arrived in this era by mistake.Read More »

PLOT: A wealthy man comes to terms with his stepsister.Read More »

Plot: “Crash” isn’t his name, but it’s what they call him. Orphaned at the age of seven after a car accident killed both of his parents, Crash grew up with a scar on his face and a scar in his soul. A fear of intimacy has turned him into a melancholy loner; a longing to help others has led him to become a medic on a rescue team. When he’s not out on the streets saving lives, he dreams. Of escaping. Of finding the young woman who always appears just before he wakes. One night, he comes face to face with the woman of his dreams: November is her name.Read More »

The impossible love between a minor young man and a nun. In 1944, in Marseille, Denis, a 14-year-old boy, finishes his 3rd year at a Jesuit college. During a visit to a patient in a hospital, he notices Sister Clotilde, a young nun who is not insensitive to her charm. Their friendship grows until the mother superior understands that it is evolving towards a feeling of love. Despite the advice of their respective entourage and imposed separation, they give in to their passion and eventually run away to spend the summer in Haute-Loire, in a property of the family of Sister Clotilde. When the Liberation arrives, the taboos and society catch up with them.Read More »

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At a prom ball, Peter and Helen catch each other’s eyes over the children’s heads. Peter is desperate to meet Helen and follows her to Mallorca, where she plans to spend her holiday with her husband.Read More »

As the awkward, insecure bubbly Gaby, Lolita Chammah suggests a Gallic Greta Gerwig in one of her not-quite-formed-adult roles. Upon arriving in the country, she’s promptly discarded by her boyfriend, and as solitude is not an option, the companionship-starved Gaby seeks out a replacement. She finds it in Nicolas (Benjamin Biolay), a seemingly hirsute vagabond whose shack she invites herself to share. Director Sophie Letourneur’s follow-up to 2012’s Les coquillettes is a tentative pastoral romance filled with endearing neuroses and an organically unpredictable plot, charming and moving in its investigation of why it is that some simply cannot bear to be alone.Read More »

The Lily in the valley is the story of an impossible love between Felix de Vandenesse, youngest of an aristocratic family, and Madame de Mortsauf, the virtuous wife of the Count de Mortsauf, a dark and violent man.Read More »