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In 1900, a Parisian courtesan flees to Rome to protect her reputation when her daughter’s learning disability could become exposed. There she meets Maria Montessori, who is pioneering a teaching method that may help the child.Read More »

In the rural outskirts of Gaza City a small community of farmers, the Samouni extended family, is about to celebrate a wedding. It’s going to be the first celebration since the latest war. Amal, Fuad, their brothers and cousins have lost their parents, their houses and their olive trees. The neighborhood where they live is being rebuilt. As they replant trees and plow fields, they face their most difficult task: piecing together their own memory. Through these young survivors’ recollections, Samouni Road conveys a deep, multifaceted portrait of a family before, during and after the tragic event that changed its life forever.Read More »

This drama, based on Alexander Dumas’ novel, chronicles the doomed love between Lord Horatio Nelson and the scandalous Lady Emma Hamilton. The tale begins when luscious country girl Emma, who possesses feminine charms no man can resist, uses her beauty to charm her way into the inner circle of the social elite, eventually marrying the prominent Lord Hamilton. She then has an affair with the naval hero, Nelson, whom she marries after her first husband dies. She even has a child with her new man. When he dies, however, she is deeply hurt to discover that her aristocratic “friends” will not allow her to attend the honored man’s funeral. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie GuideRead More »

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Started with Flics and then Commissariat, Virgil Vernier continues here his exploration of our passions. Manifest of his obstinacy of observer and moralist, the exergue here, borrowed from La Bruyère: “The city is divided into various societies, which are like so many small republics, which have their laws, their uses, their jargon, and their words to laugh.” To the program of this sentence follows a fixed frame: outside night, entrance of a nightclub in Paris. A “physiognomist” is at work. He sorts, withdraws behind the silence of the verdict, sometimes argues, distributes, always generous, sentences.Read More »

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One early morning deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with disturbing news: he has just killed Serrano, a racketeer with extant political connections. Serrano kept proofs of Dubaye’s involvement in corrupt dealings and was poised to use them against the deputy. Xavier readily agrees to cover up for his old pal Philippe, but he soon runs into difficulties. Nobody believes Dubaye’s alibi. And everybody — influential personalities, powerful businessmen, dubious go-betweens and the police — wants to get hold of the documents that served to blackmail Dubaye; by all possible means.Read More »

“It was that morning that I left the castle. At daybreak, I left without waking anyone. All I remember then is that I came home like a sleepwalker.”Read More »

Thierry de Peretti’s second feature focuses on the violent nationalist struggle that wracked his native island, Corsica throughout the 1990s. In this climate, Stéphane goes to Paris, fleeing from his past in those conflicts. The death of a former comrade brings back memories of how in the ‘90s he went from being a middle class youth with aspirations to becoming radicalized and turning his life into a constant persecution. He has to decide whether to go to the funeral or not, a dilemma that could cost him his life.Read More »

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A successful businessman and his long-suffering chauffeur both die violently only twenty-four hours apart – the chauffeur gunned down by unknown assassins just after he discovers he has won a fortune on the national lottery, and the businessman by his unscrupulous business partner. Distant during their life, the two ghosts must work together to ensure that their families discover the real reasons for their deaths. But they can only observe, not involve themselves in what they see. The chauffeur is appalled to find that his girlfriend has a secret lover who is intent on stealing the lottery win from her, whilst the businessman is preoccupied with his son and bringing his partner to justice. If only the two dead men could find some way to communicate with the living…Read More »

A near-fatal accident leaves one friend in the hospital while the rest go on their annual vacation. But their secrets and personal grief threaten to drive them apart.Read More »