French

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Pierre, a young man of privilege, whose anonymously-published novel is a hit and who’s about to marry his blond cousin, Lucie, abandons all when a dark-haired vagrant tells him her secret late one night in the woods: that she is Isabelle, his sister, abandoned by their father. Pierre breaks off with Lucie and his doting mother, heading for Paris with Isabelle, intent on knowing the dark side of human nature. He begins a novel, sending chapters under a pseudonym to his publisher; his relationship with Isabelle moves beyond the fraternal; and, in winter, the frail Lucie comes to live with them. Family jealousies mount, and Pierre may have discovered despair instead of the truth.Read More »

The international cinematic new wave came bursting into the Swiss cinema through the work of Michel Soutter, whose La lune avec les dents (The Moon with Teeth) became practically a manifesto of the movement. Michel Soutter was one of the first directors of New Swiss Cinema who has made fiction films and he cofounded the Groupe 5 with Tanner and Goretta. The film follows William, thirty-ish, out of work and looking for a new life after apparently having been thrown out of his previous one. He meets up with Noelle, who seems intrigued by his restlessness – until her economist boyfriend shows up. Yet plot details do little to convey the power of the film, which lay in its capturing the anarchic texture of William’s life – a life whose lack of direction was read as a rebuke of the Swiss myth of orderliness and self-satisfaction.Read More »

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When their young son is diagnosed with a brain tumor, young parents Roméo and Juliette unite in the fight for his survival.Read More »

Synopsis
A passionate relationship begins between a unmarried woman and an American artist visiting Paris after a kiss on a bridge.(imdb)Read More »

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Jean (Carl Parker) rekindles his relationship with the mysterious Claire (Marilyn Roberts), and the latter involves her curiously submissive “companion,” Anne (Mary Mendum), in the mix. Together, they explore the boundaries of sexuality in a series of S & M tinged fantasies…Read More »

Famour producer Pierre Braunberger (who produced Vivre sa vie, Tirez sur le Pianiste, Moi un noir…) has said that he only had produced two geniuses in his life : Jean Renoir and Jean-Pierre Lajournade.

Lajournade has only directed two feature films, here is one of them.
It’s a very rare copy but in good quality. You can see how his cinema has influenced Philippe Garrel (whom had worked as an assistant for Lajournade). It’s pure underground cinema from the late 60’s and it’s unfortunalty his last film.Read More »

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A solemn communion meal is the excuse to dwell in the collective memory of a family whose descendants are meeting today. The 60 actors of the film make us relive the adventures of the ancestors of these characters. The datings, wars, separations, betrayals, dramas, funny situations. Guests of the communion separate at the end of the film, but we know their origins: their memory was reconstructed before our eyes like a puzzle.Read More »

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Christmas Eve is ruined by an act of terrorism in the city of Clermont-Ferrand. As the city descend into panic, thirty something Mederic falls in love with older prostitute Isadora.Read More »

Zenoff enters a heavily guarded country mansion. He finds a vast orgy occurring within, presided over by Yald, a debauched libertine seeking to orchestrate an atmosphere of unbridled sensual pleasure with no concessions to conventional morality. Zenoff is quite shocked, particularly when Yald announces he’s about to be married and that he expects all his guests to have their way with his wife-to-be Xenia-who it just so happens is also Zenoff’s true love.Read More »