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This colorful documentary chronicles the events of the 1968 Winter Olympics in France. The events made international celebrities of skater Peggy Fleming and skier Jean-Claude Killy for their gold-medal performances. The camera accurately catches the speed of bobsleds and downhill racers and ski jumpers as they race for the gold. President Charles DeGaulle is shown observing the action over 13 days, which saw France earn the best performance to date in the winter games.Read More »
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It’s tough to find something redeeming about Jean-Claude Brisseau’s Exterminating Angels, a conflated, borderline pornographic, and execrable projection of the female psyche as seen through the murky gaze of a successful, middle-aged filmmaker, François (Frédéric van den Driessche) whose encounter with an actress recounting her sexual fantasy during an interview triggers his own personal and creative journey into capturing the intersection of desire and intimacy.Read More »
A prostitute and her teenager daughter, will have to run away after the girl stabs her mother’s pimp. The woman will try to find her son, which she hasn’t seen in 8 years.Read More »
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An advanced, armed, French Mirage fighter jet is stolen during an air show in UK. 2 other fighter jets locate it. They’re forced to shoot it down. Terrorists make another attempt to steal armed Mirages. Why?Read More »
Paris, La Belle Epoque, at the end of the XIXth Century: Cavalier, a second-rate actor, discovers a gorgeous talented girl who performs on stage. He wants to be her Pygmalion and he begins to teach her acting. It’s not long before the babe realizes she is much more gifted than her teacher, a not-so-handsome man who has fallen in love with her. Besides, both met the count of Ligny, a buck who makes a fool of the Belle’s mate and begins to seduce her.Read More »
Jill, a wealthy 18-year-old blonde living with her mother in a luxurious villa on Lake [/b]Geneva, is hopelessly in love with Fabio, an Italian theater director, married to her friend Carla. Frustrated by her unrequited love, she moves to Paris and, after trying unsuccessfully to become a ballerina, turns to modeling. Her looks attract the attention of a film producer, who turns her into an international sex symbol by means of an elaborate publicity campaign. Then one night, after fainting while being crushed by a mob of hysterical fans, she decides to give up her career. Disguised in a black wig, she again meets Fabio and learns he is separated from his wife.Read More »
Adeline’s Chinese housekeeper suddenly disappears, leaving behind a little boy who doesn’t speak a word of French. Helped by her sister, she takes care of the child and proceeds to locate the mother.Read More »
This film in 16mm seeks to unravel the porous relationship between the world of the living and the world of the dead. Pursuing his quest for memory and traces in isolated territories, Piton relies on artisanal film developing methods as well as several experimental devices to conjure up a personal experience from the past that has never faded. “In the house where I grew up, something appeared once upon a time, a shape, a presence, an image that has never ceased to haunt the memory of that place. I search for traces of this apparition as if this image from the past had never left the house.” (Emmanuel Piton)Read More »
A novelist, an actress, and a struggling young singer all attempt to make their mark in modern day Paris in director Marc Fitoussi’s cynical entertainment industry satire. Bertrand is a French literary professor whose students all know that he is shacked up with pretty math teacher Solange despite the couple’s best efforts to keep their relationship under the radar. Though no one in the school much cares for Bertrand’s prose, self-flagellating student Frederic is the one notable exception. Meanwhile, as Bertrand struggles to deliver his second novel, recent big city arrival Cora finds that her fondness for outmoded songwriters may be having an adverse effect on her career trajectory. While Cora struggles to make ends meet by working at a popular chain steakhouse, even this attempt to remain afloat ultimately proves disastrous.Read More »