It’s summer. Celine, in her thirties, archaeologist, spends a weekend in her childhood home. Her archaeological research are mixed up with her memories of adolescence and some random reunions from her walks.

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https://nitro.download/view/2E51B2E4AACD375/80_000_ans_-_Christelle_Lheureux_HD_WEB.mkv

Language:French
Subtitles:None

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Synopsis:
Roger spends the winter in a cabin in the woods at an army base. His husband Frank is on a mission in Djibouti and doesn’t communicate much, while their adopted teenage daughter Roxy is starting to get rebellious. Roger finds support with four women and an attractive farmer/boxing trainer, who are also all divorced from their better halves. They dispel the boredom by philosophising about life, seduction attempts and thinking up nicknames for their private parts.
In four seasons, an ironic melodrama unfolds with absurdist accents and conceptual tendencies. Benjamin Crotty, who grew up alongside an American army base, uses both French and American cultural elements, ranging from eco-architecture to dialogues based on texts from American TV series.
Fort Buchanan is a long version of the short, similarly-named film that was also screened in Rotterdam.

Quote:
Paying tribute to popular American culture and TV series, Benjamin Crotty revisits by way of transposition and transformation: situations and dialogues are rearranged and the characters are now French and homosexual. The result is a pleasantly awkward but enjoyable melodrama.

https://nitro.download/view/ACCEBB56D4D838C/Fort_Buchanan_(2014).mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English (Hardcoded)

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Reviews:
Although Eric Rohmer’s fresh, unadorned style rarely sits heavily on his films, The Romance of Astrée et de Céladon, his adaptation of 17th century writer Honoré d’Urfé’s 5th century fable of affronted love, not only features an usual absence of intellectual banter, but is more importantly the lightest and silliest the director has been in ages. These are not pejorative descriptions—the film’s wholesome delight in d’Urfé’s modest whimsy amongst the 5th century Gauls of druids, nymphs and many amorous declarations of assured sincerity and flighty infidelity, the director’s own sweet, unexpected eroticism, and the film’s gentle spirit simply make a work that is light, lovely, and strange.
– D. Kasman (D-kaz.com)

If, as the eighty-seven-year-old Eric Rohmer has suggested, this is his last film, he’s leaving the stage with an audacious flourish, infusing a fifth-century pastoral fantasy (adapted from a seventeenth-century novel) with a lifetime of themes, passions, and big ideas. […] As usual, Rohmer shows the way to true love through the rejection of a false one; making his eighteenth-century moralist’s view explicit, he sets the misadventures in images redolent of Watteau and Fragonard. The crucial moments are dialectical—a disputation between a faithful lover and a capering libertine, a druid’s pagan proof of monotheism and the Trinity. As a result, it takes Rohmer a long time to reunite the original pair, but from love delayed, he asserts, music, painting, poetry, architecture, and religion are born. In French.
– R. Brody (Newyorker.com)

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https://nitro.download/view/5949D80C4D32FDF/Les.amours.d’Astree.et.de.Celadon.(Eric.Rohmer.2007).576p.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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