A CIA agent tries to infiltrate Soviet intelligence to stop a murderous diabolical plot.

Enigma.1982.576p.BluRay.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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The post Jeannot Szwarc – Enigma (1982) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The Future of Emily (Flügel und Fasseln) is the work of Helma Sanders-Brahms, one of the original New German Cinema directors of the early 1970s. Unlike some of her more caustic films about the German experience, this is a relatively conventional drama of generational jealousy and bitterness, a picture that could well be a stage play. It’s also reminiscent of American movies about strong women in conflict, pitting famous German star Hildegard Knef against French actress Brigitte Fossey. Knef’s big break came with the very first post-war German success The Murderers Are Among Us. Fossey’s best-known picture remains René Clément’s Forbidden Games, where she played a Parisian tot orphaned by the war. The film’s original German title translates as “Wings and Shackles”, which apparently refers to the predicament of its movie star heroine Isabelle, a woman adored by fans but hobbled by family disapproval.

Flugel.und.Fesseln.1985.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 46 min
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Language(s):German
Subtitles:English

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Susumu Hani’s six-year-old daughter Mio plays an orphaned Japanese girl who, for some reason, ends up in Sardinia. She starts going to school, quickly learns Italian, and befriends a boy named Raphael. One of Hani’s stranger concepts for a film, made enjoyable by the great naturalistic acting that’s found in most of his work.

Mio.1970.VHSRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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Subtitles:English

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Two years after the first “Boum”, Vic – now 15 and a half years old – has a very calm love life, actually no boyfriend at all. Her parents are happily together again, Grandma Poupette thinks about finally marring her long-term boyfriend. But then Vic meets Philippe and is overcome by his charm. She’s in heaven again and considers going all the way this time – a step, that her girlfriend Penelope already has taken.

La Boum 2.1982.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, German, French, Portuguese, Arabic, Hungarian, Vietnamese, Hebrew, Chinese, Korean, Polish, Serbian, Turkish

The post Claude Pinoteau – La Boum 2 AKA The Party 2 (1982) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Susumu Hani’s six-year-old daughter Mio plays an orphaned Japanese girl who, for some reason, ends up in Sardinia. She starts going to school, quickly learns Italian, and befriends a boy named Raphael. One of Hani’s stranger concepts for a film, made enjoyable by the great naturalistic acting that’s found in most of his work.

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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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The conflict between the generations is a recurring theme in the cinema of Claude Sautet. Often as not, it is peripheral to the main drama, but in Un mauvais fils it is absolutely central, the lightning conductor in a raging emotional thunderstorm. The fraught relationship between a middle-aged father and his estranged son Bruno is mirrored by one of a gentler hue, that between a gay bookshop owner and his attractive employee Catherine, who is his adopted daughter in all but name. Bruno appears to have more in common with Catherine, a perfect stranger, than with his father, and so whilst one relationship withers, another flourishes.

Here, it is narcotics abuse that marks out the generational fault lines. Neither Bruno’s father nor Catherine’s attentive employer can understand the need for drugs and regard this as a sign of the lack of staying power in today’s younger generation – their moral position is slightly undermined by the fact that both men consume alcohol. Bruno’s own moral judgements are shown to be as flawed and trivial as his father’s and the rift that opens up between them through a mutual misunderstanding and lack of willingness to see things from the other’s viewpoint soon appears unbridgeable. Sautet is, if anything, an optimist, and the film ends not with a permanent estrangement but with the possibility of a lasting reconciliation between the generations. Blood is, after all, thicker than water.

Sautet had originally considered Gérard Depardieu for the part of Bruno but later changed his mind when he thought that the actor was too self-assured to convincingly play the fragile main protagonist. Patrick Dewaere was the ideal substitute, an actor renowned for playing tormented, multi-faceted and usually sympathetic no-hopers. As a man, Dewaere was an enigma, an affable, moody and impulsive force of nature – he had a massive falling out with the media around the time he made this film (the result of his punching a journalist) and he took his own life (for reasons that remain unknown) just a few years later. As an actor, he was virtually unrivalled at the time he was working, certainly one of the most talented and charismatic actors in French cinema, although his professional reputation was tarnished somewhat by his temperamental personality.

In Un mauvais fils, Dewaere gives one of his most nuanced and engaging performances, one that expresses far more about his character than his prosaic dialogue can ever hope to do and which forces the spectator to share his sense of dislocation from the world around him. Watching Dewaere in his films is always a fascinating and moving experience, simply because the actor projects so much of himself into his screen portrayals and never gives us cause to doubt that he is living the part with every fibre of his being whilst he is in front of the camera. It is hard to imagine a more committed and instinctive actor than Patrick Dewaere. He deserves to be ranked alongside such luminaries as Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro as one of the great talents of the silver screen, tragically brief though his career was.

The four other main roles are just as well-cast and beautifully complement Dewaere’s faultless performance. The part of Bruno’s mercurial father is superbly rendered by Yves Robert, a distinguished character actor who was also an accomplished film director (his best known work being the popular La Gloire de mon père / Le Château de ma mère (1990) diptych). Robert’s portrayal is so unnervingly in sympathy with Dewaere’s that we never question that their characters are father and son. Just as commendable is Brigitte Fossey’s sensitive portrayal of a vulnerable young woman struggling (and failing) to overcome her drugs dependency, and we must not overlook the exceptional contributions from Jacques Dufilho and Claire Maurier, who bring colour and depth to their complex supporting characters.

Dewaere, Dufilho and Maurier were all nominated for a César for their performances, but only Dufilho received the award (in the Best Supporting Actor category). The film was nominated (unsuccessfully) in three other categories (Best Director, Best Design and Best Sound). Claude Sautet may have made barely a dozen films, but few would dispute that he is one of the great auteurs of French cinema, highly regarded for his meaningful, lovingly crafted explorations of the human soul. Amidst Sautet’s other masterworks, Un mauvais fils is all too easily overlooked, but it is surely one of the director’s finest achievements – as much a testament to Sautet’s skill as a film director as it is to Patrick Dewaere’s incomparable talent as an actor. Many other filmmakers have examined the inter-generational divide, but rarely with the finesse and insight that Sautet shows in this magnificent film. — James Travers (www.lefilmguide.com)

Un.mauvais.fils.1980.1080p.NF.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-SPWEB.mkv
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Runtime: 	1 h 49 min
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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian, Hungarian, Greek, Romanian

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Romantic melodrama set in 18th century plague-ridden Italy. Elvire (Brigitte Fossey) enters a loveless marriage with the elderly Piacchi (Fernando Rey) and finds herself becoming attracted to their adopted son Nicolo, who reminds her of a man who once sacrificed his life for her.

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https://nitro.download/view/F3B023CDA09C979/Un_amour_interdit.avi

Language(s):French
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