A union pensioner and his wife are robbed, but find that merely getting the assailants brought to justice is not enough for their consciences.

Les.Neiges.Du.Kilimandjaro.2011.FRENCH.576p.BDRip.x264.AC3-zitoune69.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 46 min
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https://nitro.download/view/3B339BE7F3FDCF4/Les.Neiges.Du.Kilimandjaro.2011.FRENCH.576p.BDRip.x264.AC3-zitoune69.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, French

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In Marseille, a family gathers for the birth of baby Gloria. But despite the joy, the young parents have fallen on tough times. As they try to make ends meet, they reconnect with Gloria’s ex-convict grandfather.

Gloria.Mundi.2019.FRENCH.AC3.720p.WEB.H264-EXTREME.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 46 min
Size: 	2.49 GiB
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Resolution: 	1280x688 
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Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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“…It began with the a couple much like Joseph and Mary, only in a modern French setting. This fable continued for a little longer, until it became revealed that it was a story being read to a near-catatonic woman by an older lady. The younger of the women turns out to be Natasha, a pediatrician amongst the poor in Marseilles, and a political activist. She is the central character, and the rest of the film delves into her story, through flashbacks, and the contradiction that she represents.

Natasha, it turns out, was born of a Christian mother (the lady reading her favourite stories in the belief that they may help her out of her current dumb state), and a communist father. This pairing is symbolised best in her nativity sets, which are both quite elaborate, but which, as a concession to her father, lack the infant Jesus in the manger. Much of Natasha’s life up until the event which provoked her current state of incommunication (shown near the end) involved another doctor called Jeremy, her long-term lover. Jeremy has a family of his own, though these are never shown, and apart from social work and politics, he is Natasha’s true love, even if his own politics seems distinct to hers.

Set closer to the present is another love story, another pairing of contradictions: a teenage girls, born of immigrant parents, and her beau, Rachid, against whom the girl’s father has taken a great disliking.

I won’t go into the many revelations relating to these relationships and their evolution, but it is interesting that the director Guedigian is himself an arch-communist – interesting because this film is far more involved than the political rant one might have expected. The characters are all well-rounded, convincing combinations of idealism and personal weakness. Their complexity is reflected in a combination of religious imagery and social realism. One might even say that through the story of the Nativity a balance is found: the Mother of God does indeed find no welcome at the inn. It is certainly a theme that is returned to several times in the film.

The acting by all concerned is superb. Apparently they have worked a lot together, and they really seem to gel as a unit, while playing their roles with utter conviction. The story progresses smoothly, keeping the viewer hooked for each new revelation about Natasha, her past and her present. There are also some political points well worth chewing upon also, though, consistent with the tone of the film, they are as much matters of simple humanity as they are about politics….”

1.65GB | 1h 44min | 756×454 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/550B4488EB0D3ED/Mon_Pere_Est_Ingenieur_AKA_My_Father_Is_An_Engineer__Robert_Guediguian_2004__(1).mkv

Language:French
Subtitles:English

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Barsam, Anna’s father, is seriously ill. Before he dies, he would like to bequeath something to his daughter: a sense of doubt. As he flees to Armenia, he leaves several clues in his wake so that Anna can come after him. For Anna, this journey she is obliged to make in an unknown country, becomes what her father wanted it to be: an initiation, a sentimental journey, a second adolescence. She finds him in a little village, lost in the Caucasian mountains, seated dreaming under a blossoming apricot tree. She will come to doubt her identity, her relationships and her commitments.

2.26GB | 1h 59mn | 1020×574 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/CD164B0BE332BBE/Le_voyage_en_Armenie_(2006)_–_Robert_Guediguian.mkv

Language:French, Armenian
Subtitles:English (muxed), French (for the Armenian parts)

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From Stephen Holden review in NYT: “In his unsettling urban panorama, “The Town Is Quiet,” the director Robert Guédiguian invests the French port city of Marseille with the same epic sense of drama that infused Robert Altman’s “Nashville.” Raw, wrenching and more starkly tragic than Mr. Altman’s satire, “The Town Is Quiet” evokes a similar vision of a city as a teeming organism in violent, spasmodic flux.
Like “Nashville,” the film is a sprawling mosaic of interlocking stories whose characters run the social gamut, from right-wing upper- class politicians to young North African immigrants to blue-collar dock workers. As much as the director grasps the anxieties of the city’s well-heeled establishment, his sympathies lie with the sufferings of its underdogs, the struggles of its working class and the dreams of newcomers pouring into the city through its teeming harbor. If his identification with the common people recalls Frank Capra, the go-for-broke passion with which he expresses that vision is closer to Pier Paolo Pasolini.”

Robert Guediguian - (2000) The Town Is Quiet.mkv

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Language(s):French, English, Italian, German
Subtitles:English

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