Guy Gilles’ view of Mexico focuses mainly on the dreams of ordinary Mexicans and their ways of expression: fun and festivity.

1975 La Loterie de la vie (Gilles).mkv

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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father’s arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is accused of being a Red. Fando discovers that his mother may have aided in his father’s arrest. Sometimes we witness Fando imagining explanations for what’s going on; sometimes we see him at play, alone or with his friend Thérèse. Oedipal fantasies and a lad’s natural curiosity about sex and death mix with his search for his mother’s nature and his father’s fate. Will Fando survive the search?

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https://nitro.download/view/A0D061F74E7BB7D/Viva.la.muerte.1971.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv
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https://nitro.download/view/607DD591E2905C8/Viva.la.muerte.1971.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.part1.rar
https://nitro.download/view/611B15414CF0B49/Viva.la.muerte.1971.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.part2.rar

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Fernando Arrabal – Viva la muerte AKA Long Live Death (1971) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Forty-year old Abel travels to France from Quebec on a pilgrimage to explore the mother country and the land of his ancestors. As he travels around and does all the things tourists are supposed to do, his expectations and perceptions are shattered and he is forced to revise his romanticized image of France. As he travels to see the places where Rimbaud was born, lived, and died, he meets two women who show him the warmth and kindness he was searching for.

https://nitro.download/view/59422364C73A1B8/Le_vieux_pays_ou_Rimbaud_est_mort-v99.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Jean Pierre Lefebvre – Le vieux pays où Rimbaud est mort AKA The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died (1977) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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“Je T’Aime, Je T’Aime,” which opened yesterday at the New Yorker Theater, was shown at the eighth New York Film Festival. The following is from Roger Greenspun’s review, which appeared Sept. 15, 1970, in The New York Times.

Like most of the previous films of Alain Resnais, “Je T’Aime, Je T’Aime” is science fiction of a sort. And like virtually all of Resnais’s previous films, its concern is for the past recaptured. To support this concern it proposes a story, the most fragmented of all Resnais’ stories, dealing with, perhaps intense but nevertheless transitory love affair.

Claude (Claude Rich), having recovered from an unsuccessful suicide attempt, is picked for an experiment by a secret research center that studies time. Claude, along with a laboratory mouse, is placed inside a large soft brain-shaped structure, from which he is to be transported back to relive one minute at 4 in the afternoon exectly one year ago. He does relive that minute (he is snorkeling on vacation in southern France, and “underwater” becomes a recurring image and idea for the film), but he begins reliving it several times over–and then in bits and pieces he begins to relive other moments scattered through the seven years he lived with Catrine (Olga Georges-Picot), whom he thinks he killed and for whose death he had tried to kill himself.

Assuming that they have lost him forever, and sadly admitting that their experiment has been a most incomplete success, the research scientists wander out of the laboratory–only to discover Claude, a bullet in his gut (he has most recently relived his botched suicide) lying on the grass. But in their despondency and concern they forget the little mouse, who did come back, and now sniffs forlornly inside his container within the giant brain.

I am disturbed by that mouse, not only for the bathos of the image but also because his situation so ludicrously (and, I think, so intentionally) recalls that of the wife, Simone, looking for her husband, already light years away, inside another woman’s deserted apartment at the end of Resnais’s one masterpiece, “Muriel.” For “Je T’Aime, Je T’Aime” resembles “Muriel” in so many close ways that the success of the older film (1963) stands in almost total reproach to the general banality of the newer one.

Although obsessed with time, memory, the past, the physical material of “Je T’Aime, Je T’Aime” is its love story and the daily lives of the couple involved in it. But in that story and in those lives it finds so little of interest or urgency that with all its perceptual complexity it comes to seem an enormous and ingenious structure with almost nothing inside it. NY Times, May 8, 1972

Je.t'aime.Je.t'aime.1968.BDRIP.Radiance.576p.x264.AAC.KJNU.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 34 min
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https://nitro.download/view/FD2AE10330690FB/Je.t’aime.Je.t’aime.1968.BDRIP.Radiance.576p.x264.AAC.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Alain Resnais – Je t’aime je t’aime AKA I Love You, I Love You (1968) first appeared on Cinema of the World.