There is a kind of country very small, so small that it looks a bit like a theater scene. It is inhabited two or three times a day by its people. The inhabitants are small. If they live according to laws, they do not stop to question them and fight violently about it. This country is called “The Court” and its people “The Children”.

Recreations.1998.DVDRip.x264.mkv

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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, Spanish

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Follows doctors and patients at a gynecology ward in France.

Our.Body.2023.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-ZTR.mkv

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Language(s):French, English, Spanish
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Claire Simon’s The Competition (Le Concours) begins, significantly, with the image of a locked gate—that of the Fondation Européenne pour les Métiers de l’Image et du Son, or, as it’s more popularly known, La Fémis. One of the most prestigious film schools in the world, offering hands-on training from working professionals, every year La Fémis attracts hundreds upon hundreds of applicants hoping to fill only forty annual slots. This new film by Simon, one of France’s premiere nonfiction filmmakers, offers a unique look into the process whereby those lucky forty are selected—a process involving examiners from the French film industry which is highly personal and idiosyncratic and subject to the vagaries of taste and personal prejudice.

Simon’s film, as that opening image belies, is concerned with documenting the actual workings of cultural gatekeeping—for the filmmaking apparatus is unwieldy and expensive, and the privilege of access to its operations isn’t easily earned. In a series of illuminating vignettes, The Competition allows us to witness every stage of the process whereby which young men and women are evaluated for their fitness as suitable raw materials to be shaped La Fémis, from written examinations to in-person interviews. Observing the observers, in every scene Simon subtly draws out the dynamics pertaining to gender, class, and race at work in the room, a reality of human variability at odds with the French Republican ideal of a neutral égalité.

Funny, penetrating, and surprisingly suspenseful, the timely The Competition is not only a unique opportunity to see the inner workings of an institution at the very heart of the French film industry, but an invitation to look at the assumptions and roadblocks that shape any national film industry, and higher education in general. A masterful work of nonfiction that urges us to consider the system that nurtures or pushes aside would-be filmmakers, and encourages us to think about why we see the films that w

Le Concours AKA The Graduation [Claire Simon 2016] 576p.mkv

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A small picturesque Provençal village. Certainly, I grew up there, but today life seems to have somewhat deserted it. Except for the car and motorcycle repair garage where everyone, I mean the men, come to have their car serviced. What do they do? What do they talk about? A breakdown develops into a nail-biting suspense, the garage becomes the place of masculine transmission. Men are amongst themselves and repair metal bodies.

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In an industrial zone of the city of Nice, Jihad is starting a factory making ready meals. His employers Fahid, Toufik, Madanni, Marouan and Gisèle share different tasks and struggle to keep the “Coûte que Coûte” company in business.

Synopsis
The basis of the capitalist system is free entrepreneurship. Anyone who discovers a gap in the market is basically allowed to fill it. That is not as simple as it seems, as is clear from the statistics: within one year after their establishment, many new companies have disappeared again. Coute que coute follows the development of one such company, a catering firm which prepares fresh meals with the intention to sell them to large supermarkets. The idea came to mind from an associate of the Tunisian embassy. He resolutely starts the firm, he hires employees, and he waits for customers. Soon, business appears to be slower than expected. Some workers have to be fired. The five remaining employees and their boss continue to fight hard for the survival of the company. Filmmaker Claire Simon considered these people’s struggle to keep afloat a suitable subject for a documentary: “It is a topical and everyday story with both dramatic and comic aspects.” She was particularly interested in the human aspect, not so much in the economic implications. Simon paid six visits to the company, always at the end of the month, when the decision was taken to keep going for another month or to quit. It is this dramatic question that keeps the film enticing until the end.

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Claire Simon portrays an important time for any individual, from 16 to 18 years of age.

Set in the Paris suburbs in high school (for those lucky enough to go), teenagers chat after and even during class, sitting in the hallway or outside on a bench, looking at the city below them.

Claire Simon sets up a cinematic dialog with the teens, speaking about their personal history, their family, but also passions and loneliness.

At this age, they start thinking about leaving their family, when there is one, and even run away from it when it’s completely broken. Being by yourself can bring as many good things as bad ones. This film becomes a place where they search and discuss the meaning of all this.

A pure coming-age story, Young Solitude is an ode to youth.

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“Mimi isn’t a star, she’s just someone. I wanted to make a film about her life. That is, about the life of… someone. I wanted to follow as closely as possible the singularity of a real life in order to encounter its own particular romance, fantasy. Things that I’d discover when filming. In Nice, her hometown, or in the mountains, drifting between familiar and unfamiliar places where I filmed her, I waited for this story as yet unknown to me to come back to Mimi and for her to recount the scenes that make up her personal novel.”
Claire Simon

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Language(s):French
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