A man invites a woman to share his room in a hostel in Djibouti because she seems to have some problems. Gradually he falls in love with her. They embark on a trip to the towns in the desert and, on the way, they learn more about each other. The man never appears on screen, so the camera becomes his point of view.

A French drama romance is the highest sense, this film opens on a sad note with the only real character that we see and really focus on in the film, the woman; we are told that she has just been made homeless by her lover who has abandoned her by not showing up to a hotel rendezvous they had plan. Instead, she finds a strange man in the hotel room that her lover said he would meet her in; the man, who we never see, invites her in. Once inside, he begins using his camera to document her every mood and move. So they are on the road together, the camera still rolling. After the inevitable sexual encounter, the m,an plunges into despair, he has lost his ideal. Eventually the woman gets tired of his filming antics and denounces him, calling all manner of names to disparage his “performance” both as a film maker and as a sexual partner.

Une femme en Afrique aka Empty Quarter.avi

General
Container:	AVI
Runtime:	1h 23mn
Size:	973 MiB
Video
Codec:	XviD
Resolution:	660x576 ~> 938x576
Aspect ratio:	1.630
Frame rate:	25.000 fps
Bit rate:	1 493 Kbps
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2.0ch MP3 @ 128 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/2470C78E8905393/Une_femme_en_Afrique_aka_Empty_Quarter.avi
https://nitro.download/view/281797EBC4F3C6C/Une_femme_en_Afrique_aka_Empty_Quarter.srt

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Raymond Depardon – Une femme en Afrique (1985) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Myope (‘myopic’) and Lunettes (‘glasses’), both played by the maker, Franssou Prenant, live in Paris and experience the same feeling of isolation and fear of the outside world. Their reaction to these feelings are however contradictory: Myope is a rebel, always out to defend herself against ‘external’ reality, while Lunettes observes the world and eventually accepts it for what it is. From the window of their apartment they look at Agathe and Pierrot, two inseparable kids who love each other, but do not express these feelings. Are they real, or do they only exist in the imagination of both women? The film dissects the relationships between the various characters and reveals the many barriers around them, something that is beautifully expressed in the film material used: Myope and Lunettes are filmed on Super-8, Agathe and Pierrot on 16mm. The coarse grain and the fuller colours of Super-8 evoke an unpolished, authentic mood, while the sharper and cooler 16mm material is more stylised and emphasises the element of fiction. A contrary cut stresses the two confusing personalities of Myope and Lunette in the same body of the director.

‘The narrative thread through the film is emotion. Paris is regarded as a character, just as we look at Agathe and Pierrot, who are wrestling with time and are subjected to the contrasting looks of Myope and Lunettes.’ (Franssou Prenant)

«Lunettes et Myope sont deux façons de résister au monde. Identiques et contraires, face à face ou le plus souvent dos à dos, dans une petite pièce, et un temps hors du temps. Jumelles et adversaires, ces deux filles n’en sont qu’une: Lunettes se sert de ses carreaux comme d’un outil qui l’aide, sinon à comprendre le monde, du moins à l’accepter, Myope, elle, ne voit pas, voit en elle-même et, abîmée dans son expérience floue mais aiguë du monde, refuse et se révolte à tout bout de champ. À l’instigation de Lunettes, Myope suscite, dans la même ville, sous le même climat, mais dans une autre dimension, deux personnages, deux relais: Pierrot et Agathe. » (Franssou Prenant)

2.80GB | 1h 42m | 718×480 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/31FFD9E31EA51D2/Paris,_mon_petit_corps_est_bien_las_de_ce_grand_monde_(Francois_Prenant,_2000).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/53B6516D057245E/Paris,_mon_petit_corps_est_bien_las_de_ce_grand_monde_(Francois_Prenant,_2000)_ENG_Resynched.srt

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Françoise Prenant – Paris, mon petit corps est bien las de ce grand monde AKA Paris, my little body is aweary of this great world (1998) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A 1975 French language short film written and directed by Franssou Prenant, starring Hélène Hazéra, Marie-France and René Schérer.

Young transgender women turn the streets of Paris into their cabaret. Their dreams are quickly overtaken by reality.

276MB | 25m 35s | 720×540 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/986DE342CC457EE/Paradis_Perdu.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/9684AB70A75277B/Paradis_Perdu.srt

Language:French
Subtitles:English

The post Françoise Prenant – Paradis perdu (1975) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

She was 18, they were in love, lived together 10 years. 20 years letter she
sends him a letter. She’s sick, does not talk much about her, but asks him
a question “When will you make a good movie ?”. He then takes his camera and
tries to speak of other things, about cinéma, their early political combats
and what became of them. Through his hesitations, his interrogations, he
draws the bitter image of an era. Moscow, Gaza, Berlin, Belgrade, Sarajevo,
Paris, Sarajavo again. A way to stay with her, to retail life.

1.32GB | 1:41:05 | 608×368 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/C9FBCC5A9FFAA0F/Lettre.pour.L.Romain.Goupil.1994.FRENCH.DVDRip.XviD-RxB.avi
https://nitro.download/view/2BECC2B53B56E47/Lettre.pour.L.Romain.Goupil.1994.FRENCH.DVDRip.XviD-RxB.srt

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Romain Goupil – Lettre pour L… (1994) first appeared on Cinema of the World.