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Young aristocrat Arnaud de Maule hires female private detective Claude Alphand to investigate a strange cult, the Church of the Final Revival, that tried to recruit his girlfriend Chloé, who then disappeared, and it now stalks him.Read More »
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During WW1, a train is stopped by a bombing ;a young soldier ,Paul,takes advantage of the opportunity to go to his native village to see his parents .His sergeant has given him one hour.He meets his mother in the church and learns that his fiancee does not live with her anymore.She’s working in a tavern for soldiers where the owner,Auguste ,woos her.The former love does not want to see Paul anymore because he never wrote to her since he left for war.In fact,it’s Paul mother who has concealed the messages:she has turned her out of the house because she does not want a girl in state custody to be her daughter-in-law .Auguste is jealous and wants the Gendarmes to arrest Paul as a deserter.After another bombing ,Auguste is buried beneath the ruins of his cafe.Paul gets on the moving train in the nick of time.Marie will wait for him.Read More »
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.Read More »
As a way to remain close to her daughter and continue to tell her bedtime stories, her dad asks her every night: “Maya, give me a title”. From each title, he imagines and creates a unique cartoon in which Maya is the heroine. Through these animated adventures, Michel Gondry brings to life a poetic and fun journey that will make children dream…and grown-ups smile.Read More »
Social media influencer Magalie is in big trouble. Fleeing to her remote chalet in the frost-bitten mountains after a freak accident, the renegade trendsetter occupies her isolated estate with her subservient personal assistant. When a journalist comes knocking at her door, blackmailing the mean-spirited celebrity in exchange for an interview exclusive, Magalie is forced to confront her turbulent upbringing and her empire of senseless video slop. What follows is a tragic-comic satire on the extremities of internet sensationalism, as Magalie’s entire career comes crashing down with her insatiable personality.Read More »
The movie that inspired Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys, Chris Marker’s La jetée is a landmark of science-fiction filmmaking, a 28-minute masterpiece told almost entirely in still frames.
Set in a post-apocalyptic near-future, it tells the story of an unnamed man whose vivid childhood recollections make him the perfect guinea pig for an experiment in time travel. After a lengthy and nightmarish period of conditioning, he is sent into the past, where he falls in love with a woman whom he once saw on a pier. At the experiment’s conclusion, he is visited by an advanced race, who offer him the opportunity to journey into their future world, but he instead requests that they send him permanently into the past, where he can remain with the woman of his dreams. A singular experience.Read More »
Synopsis: After nearly a decade as American Vogue‘s most subversive fashion photographer, William Klein made this wild, pseudovérité incursion into the world of Parisian haute couture. Elegant, scathing humor ties together the various strands of this alternately glamorous and grotesque portrait of American in Paris Polly Maggoo (Dorothy MacGowan), an Alice in Wonderland supermodel who becomes the pinup plaything of media hounds and the fragmented fantasy of haunted Prince Igor (Sami Frey). Klein’s first fiction film is a daring deflation of cultural pretensions and institutions, dressed up in brilliant black and white.Read More »
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Jeanne, a 15-year-old orphan, witnesses the shoot for a film adaptation of the fairy tale The Snow Queen, and she becomes fascinated by its star, Cristina, an actress who is just as mysterious and alluring as the Queen she is playing.Read More »
A documentary in the Cineastes de notre Temps series on legedary french director Philippe Garrel. Read More »