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Ostensibly an adaptation of the oft-filmed Wuthering Heights, Jacques Rivette’s Hurlevent (or Howling Wind, per the translation) feels more like a schematic indication of Emily Brontë’s famed novel, though that should not be taken as a criticism. This is one of Rivette’s most stripped down works; emotion is secondary to the film’s tight and taut surface (updated to the Cévennes countryside circa the 1930s) where passions flare imperceptibly and a romantic tragedy is performed as if preordained, though this is more than just Céline and Julie Go Boating’s haunted house melodrama played straight. Rivette’s characters are often held captive by the stage (whether real or imagined), so when Catherine (Fabienne Babe) and her farmhand lover Roch (Lucas Belvaux) run through the fields adjacent to an imposing stone homestead (one of the film’s two primary settings), there is a profound sense of meta liberation, of escape beyond the boundaries of narrative (the wind-strewn leaves of grass, counterpointed by the incantatory vocalizations of the Bulgarian choir Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, might very well be located in the empty margins of the Book of Life). Certain of Rivette’s weaker films assume a window-dressed Christian pose (anxiety of influence, I think, from Hitchcock and Rossellini, among others), but here the spiritual inquiry is entirely genuine. The three dream sequences that near-invisibly signal Hurlevent’s beginning, middle, and end are as much a holy trinity as they are a thematic backbone; the characters wake from these becalmed and psychologically penetrating visions into a nightmarish reality of Escher-like doorways and windows that lead them over a prolonged and circuitous path to destruction. Rivette never concretely illustrates the divide between mind and matter (the blink-of-an-eye passage of three years feels particularly apocalyptic in this context) and that allows him to have it both ways when, in Hurlevent’s finale, the spirit world quite literally breaches the real world, an action that manages to have repercussions at once miraculous, damning, and devastating.

Wuthering.Heights.1985.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/A953B10CA97120E/Wuthering.Heights.1985.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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After twenty-five years of exile in Paris, Jana returns to Vilnius. She wants to find the lake that Paulius, her first lover, called “Walden”. Chronicle elegiac of Lithuanian youth before the fall of the communist bloc.

1.74GB | 1h 24m | 1280×692 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/5A5662CED406544/Walden.2020.720p.WEB.x264-gooz.mkv
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https://fikper.com/7GE5OABTy9/Walden.2020.720p.WEB.x264-gooz.eng.srt.html

Language:Lithuanian,French
Subtitles:English, Portuguese

The post Bojena Horackova – Walden (2020) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

This is the story of an almost forgotten murder, and an almost forgotten love. Young Jean is the one who brings it up again, while together with his mother he is clearing the house of his recently deceased grandmother in Mens in the South of France and decides to keep a box of old papers.

1.33GB | 1h 37m | 1280×720 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/B8EF92BBCD28D91/Mens.2019.720p.SUBBED.WEB.x264.mkv

Language:French
Subtitles:English (hardcoded)

The post Isabelle Prim – Mens (2019) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
The thoughts and dreams of a group of people riding a subway in Paris provides the springboard for Jean-Claude Guiguet’s drama Les Passagers/The Passengers. As the train rolls along, various characters either talk among themselves or address the camera on a variety of subjects. A mathematician (Bruno Putzulu) speaks with one of his students (Stephane Rideau) about the statistical implications of the spread of AIDS. A nurse (Fabienne Babe) meets with a security guard she’s infatuated with (Philippe Garziano), while her friend enjoys a daydream about the joys of life as a rural housewife. A man rants about problems with sex and the virtues of masturbation, while another person debates the relative merits of the films Savage Nights and The Mother and The Whore. Les Passagers/The Passengers was screened as part of the “Un Certain Regard” series at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.

~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Extra:
An interview with Jean-Claude Guiguet
(in French without any subtitles)

1.25GB | 1h 28m | 710×429 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/C46DD71F86CF94F/Les_Passagers_(1999)_–_Jean-Claude_Guiguet.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/CDF8CA91917E117/Interview_-_Jean-Claude_Guiguet.mkv

Language:French
Subtitles:English, German, Russian (muxed)

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Synopsis:
With the natural splendour of Lac Léman as a back-drop, Le Mirage is the story of a woman who believes she can recapture her youth by rediscovering love… with no regard for the inescapable realities of life. Maria Tummler, still quite beautiful despite her fifty years, is suddenly possessed with a consuming passion for a young visiting American, a friend of her son. But neither Jeanne, her friend, nor Anna, her daughter and faithful confidante, have a right to know, even though the young girl can see the emotion in her mother’s eyes and is delighted to witness the physical transformation seemingly taking place. Maria is prepared to live this miracle of resuscitated love to its very end, even as some signs of a strange physical weariness begin to invade her new-found sense of well-being.

1.33GB | 1h 34m | 706×441 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/1B8278F11844F75/Le_Mirage_(1992)_–_Jean-Claude_Guiguet.mkv
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https://nitroflare.com/view/472F11D8FF66A63/Le_Mirage_(1992)_–_Jean-Claude_Guiguet.idx

Language:French
Subtitles:English, German, Russian (idx, sub), English (srt)

The post Jean-Claude Guiguet – Le mirage (1992) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Plot: Maurice Maïeux lives in a small modest flat near Paris together with his father, Marcel. Marcel used to be a successful heavy-weight boxer 20 years ago, however, would not take part in sham fights. Consequently he was made to disappear from public by hitting him below the belt during one of the fights, him thus being impotent and having to walk on crutches for the rest of his life. His son Maurice is 18 years old, 1.90m tall and weighs 100 Kg. Be it for the sake of taking revenge or for the mere wish that his son should reach more in life that he himself did, Marcel’s heart-felt wish is that Maurice should become a successful boxing champion – and one day even world champion ! Yet, Maurice fights against being patronized by his father. In fact, he devotes all his love to music. His father tries to change his mind by getting his son a girl : Nora, a very sexy and feminine woman, however, married. When Maurice and Nora are on the point of making love, Nora’s husband shows up and brutally beats up Nora. Maurice feels forced to act. With a professional punch he hits his opponent who, by accident, beats his head against a table and falls down dead. From this very moment on, Maurice’s life becomes turbulent…

1.14GB | 1h 51mn | 624×352 | avi

https://nitroflare.com/view/A8DB259B506A7C8/Vecchiali_Paul_-_Wonder_Boy_(1994).avi
https://nitro.download/view/3FD0A190CF958E3/Vecchiali_Paul_-_Wonder_Boy_-_De_Sueur_et_de_sang_(1994)_v2.srt

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Paul Vecchiali – De sueur et de sang AKA Wonderboy (1994) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A French drama around cinema centered around the cinema, love and sexual passion and how it may be translated to film.

This rip is not of the highest quality: recorded from Cinefaz

1.24GB | 1h 33mn | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/55FD4EF08D15F14/zanzibar_ChristinePascal_1998.mkv

Language:French
Subtitles:None

The post Christine Pascal – Zanzibar (1989) first appeared on Cinema of the World.