Not too excited Arthur asks marriage Lola. What should have been a quiet ceremony evolves in something bigger, expensive and overwhelming as family is involved. The organization of the best day of their lives threatens to destroy them.

Le.plus.beau.jour.de.ma.vie.2005.FRENCH.1080p.WEB.H264-FW.mkv

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Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	1h 39mn
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French 2.0ch AAC LC @ 128 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/F9AB36DE9475A75/Le.plus.beau.jour.de.ma.vie.2005.FRENCH.1080p.WEB.H264-FW.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:None

The post Julie Lipinski – Le plus beau jour de ma vie (2004) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

In this comedy-drama from Claude Chabrol, Magistrate Jeanne Charmant-Killman (Isabelle Huppert) doggedly investigates CEO Michel Humeau (François Berléand), who is accused of participating in massive corporate malfeasance. As her investigation leads her into the upper echelons of government, Jeanne becomes intoxicated by the power she is amassing. Though she faces threats by those whom she would see brought low and by the dissolution of her personal life and marriage, she will not relent.

L'ivresse du pouvoir 2006 NTSC DVD DD2.0 x264-RR.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 49 min
Size: 	1.70 GiB
Video
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#1:  	French 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/3D0F128B33507DD/L’ivresse_du_pouvoir_2006_NTSC_DVD_DD2.0_x264-RR.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/202F0C009AD2B24/Making_Of_Featurette.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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The new teacher at a severely administered boys’ boarding school works to positively effect the students’ lives through music.

1.84GB | 1h 36mn | 1024×436 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/9E5A4774332C7D0/Les.choristes.AKA.The.Chorus.2004.576p.BluRay.x264.AC3.mkv
or
https://nitro.download/view/E7F3A3E06CC0B2C/Les.choristes.AKA.The.Chorus.2004.576p.BluRay.x264.AC3.part1.rar
https://nitro.download/view/7D7479A910A5021/Les.choristes.AKA.The.Chorus.2004.576p.BluRay.x264.AC3.part2.rar

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, Spanish

The post Christophe Barratier – Les Choristes AKA The Chorus (2004) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

summary & review from filmsdefrance.com :
“Fred is a police inspector charged with investigating the murder of an informer, whose dismembered remains were found in rubbish bags. After the recent tragic death of his daughter, Fred allows his work to absorb him and he becomes obsessed with bringing his prime suspect to book… “

“This dark thriller is more than anything a study in the destructive power of guilt and solitude. The two main characters, the police inspector, Fred, and Gravier, the suspect he constantly hassles, are trapped in their own introspective worlds, isolated and corrupted by their contempt for an outside world they have lost faith in. This intense character study is the film’s focus throughout, and their interaction is played out with the subtlety and uncertainty of a chess game.
The film is distinguished by its slightly off-the-wall style, veering towards black comedy of the darkest kind in a few places. Most of the film is shot in darkness or semi-darkness, something which contributes to the stifling atmosphere of the film and overwhelming sense of isolation. Unfortunately, the repetitive and dawdling plot gives the impression that the film is treading water for a lot of the time.

Jean-Pierre Marielle is formidable in this, his first major screen role, a perfect anti-hero whose affection for his dead daughter has warped his sensibilities way beyond normality. Philippe Sarde’s haunting music provides the perfect finishing touch to this chilling study in solitude.”

1.12GB | 1h 25m | 720×544 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/3271C171F85DA28/Les_mois_d’avril_sont_meurtriers_(Heynemann,_1987_-_Jean-Pierre_Marielle).avi

Language(s):French
Subtitles:None

The post Laurent Heynemann – Les Mois d’Avril Sont Meurtriers aka April Is A Deadly Month (1987) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Although deeply in love with her boyfriend – and indeed sleeping in the same bed with him – a schoolteacher cannot handle the almost complete lack of intimacy he will allow. Increasingly frustrated, she gradually finds her sexual appetites leading her into ever more risky situations…

Senses of Cinema wrote:

“But it was with the release of Romance in 1999 that Breillat would face censorship internationally, when the film was either banned altogether in some countries, or given an X rating. It was a situation Breillat spoke out about when she declared that, “censorship was a male preoccupation, and that the X certificate was linked to the X chromosome.” Breillat’s statement was echoed in the French poster for the film, which features a naked woman with her hand between her legs. A large red X is printed across the image, thus revealing the source of the trouble: a woman in touch with her own sense of sexual pleasure.

Romance, and the world-wide discourse about pornography that erupted in the wake of its release, best typifies the challenge and the interest of her work. Romance is about a woman, Marie, whose boyfriend refuses to have sex with her. Her frustration leads her to a series of affairs in an effort to not only find pleasure, but seemingly to arrive at some better understanding of her own desire. The film is sexually explicit, and features, as do many of Breillat’s films, acts of unsimulated sex, hence the many accusations leveled against Breillat that she is a pornographer. Indeed, Breillat willfully courted such accusations by casting Rocco Siffredi, a famous Italian porn star, as one of Marie’s lovers. Moreover, Marie’s sexual encounters are marked by a sense of sadomasochism. Indeed, after having her baby she winds up with a man who is also the principal of the school where she teaches, having blown up her apartment and her boyfriend (who is also, presumably, the father of her child) on the way to the hospital.

Romance was banned in Australia upon its release in January 2000. In his review of the Office of Film and Literature’s (OFLC) report on the film, Adrian Martin describes the reason for the ban. And in so doing, Martin arrives at precisely the thing that makes Breillat’s films so difficult, and so interesting. Martin surveys the censors’ objection to the scene where Marie is solicited by a man in the hallway of her building. In this scene, a man offers Marie twenty-dollars to perform cunnilingus on her, to which she assents without saying a word. Of course, more occurs, as Marie is turned over (or turns over) as her perpetrator then enters her from behind. As he continues, Marie seems to sob, and when he leaves, she shouts that she is not ashamed. Martin notes that in describing the scene, the writer of the OFLC report says that “he orders Marie to turn over,” and that she tries to “scuffle away.” Martin replies, “…I did not see Marie try to ‘scuffle away’ during the scene, or be forced to turn over.” Martin’s point is that this writer’s language reveals his own moral response to an image, as opposed to what is actually present in the image: “One of the most interesting things about Romance is the way in which it inscribes in its own material ambiguous designation of obscenity.” In other words, neither Breillat nor Caroline Ducey (Marie) give us any concrete signs of her own response to what is happening. We cannot walk away confident of Marie’s outrage, only our own, at best. Indeed, the whole scene begins with a voice-over where Marie proclaims that it is, in fact, her fantasy to be taken this way. Yet, the act itself is inscribed into the realist space of the plot, thus blurring the line between fantasy and reality that is signaled by Marie’s voice-over.

As such, when we watch this act on screen, and many others like it, we are left only with what we think of what we see. Moreover, we project our own values back on to the screen, as Martin further notes when he cites a review of the film that describes the scene between Marie and Rocco Siffredi as a “humiliating affair.” Of course, there is, to my eyes, no signs of humiliation in that scene. If anything, it is a frank and very physical depiction of a sexual encounter. Siffredi asks Marie if he can have anal sex with her, an act that stands as the possible source of said humiliation. However, this possibility is complicated by the fact that she very calmly consents, on the condition that he first continue to make love to her. Moreover, the scene begins with Marie telling Siffredi, while holding a soiled condom, how men like to keep things hidden – how easily they are disgusted. The only sign of shame in the sequence comes when she admits to Siffredi, in the middle of sex, that she only sleeps with men that she doesn’t like. If there is shame here, it is the viewer’s.

2.45GB | 1 h 38 min | 960×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/32120801D842C72/Romance.1999.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/A9885F6F49312C6/Romance.1999.part2.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/674770A1A0DADE4/Romance.1999.part3.rar

Language:French
Subtitles:English srt

The post Catherine Breillat – Romance (1999) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

IMDB:
Mr. K is a do-it-yourselfer and he works very seriously. One day he has a problem with one of his screws. Furious, he decides to complain at the administration office of the Department Store of Non Ferrous Metals!…

https://nitro.download/view/31490D4419541F6/La_vis_da_viss-jean_reno.avi

language:french
no subs

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