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The beautiful Princess Elena Sokorowska (Ingrid Bergman, Intermezzo, A Woman’s Face) has decided to marry a rich but much older than her man (Pierre Bertin, Les tontons flingueurs) because she can no longer support her lifestyle. But on Bastille Day she meets the young and handsome aristocrat Henri de Chevincourt (Mel Ferrer, Lili, The Black Corsair), who introduces her to his good friend General François Rollan (Jean Marais, Orpheus, Le Masque de fer). The General is so impressed by her beauty that immediately asks if they could meet again. Later on, Elena and Henri end up in a bistro where they drink red wine and kiss. When a group of loud patriots enters the bistro, Elena disappears into the night.

On the following day Henri goes looking for Elena, but is told that she has already left with her future husband.

Meanwhile, while experimenting with a new balloon Captain Vidauban and his assistant land in a not so friendly German village where they are promptly arrested. The news quickly reaches Paris and angry men and women go on the streets demanding that the government does whatever is necessary to free Vidauban. At the same time, a group of anti-government conspirators decide to approach General Rollan because he is the only man in the country that could get the job done.

But the last thing on General Rollan’s mind is politics. Since his introduction to Elena he has been thinking about her day and night, hoping that they would meet again, and perhaps even start a relationship.

Eventually, one of the conspirators comes with a plan that could potentially get General Rollan interested in politics, and even topple the government. For the plan to work, Henry must approach and convince Elena to see General Rollan, and then the Polish beauty must use her charm to convince General Rollan to take power and save the country’s honor.

The story does not flow as well as that of Jean Renoir’s French Cancan, but the visuals more than make up for the occasional missteps. There are sequences where it literally feels like the camera can’t get enough of the stunningly beautiful Elena (this isn’t surprising as Renoir once admitted while being interviewed by Jacques Rivette that he made the film because of Bergman).

The film does have a serious side (there are some interesting political overtones), but overall it is lighthearted and quite humorous. The main characters are involved in an entertaining game that constantly evolves, surprising even the most seasoned players. From start to finish Cupid is also hovering around, shooting arrows left and right.

The cinematography is fantastic. The footage from Bastille Day, in particular, rivals the lush visuals from French Cancan. The chaos that ensues after General François Rollan is arrested is also very effectively filmed.

Gaumont’s Blu-ray release of Elena and Her Men features the French-language version of the film. Renoir also filmed a slightly shorter English-language version which was the version of the film that was initially shown in the United States. The English version was named Paris Does Strange Things.

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Subtitles:English, French, Russian

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After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional night, the pair reopen the wounds of the past. Charlotte gets another shock when she finds out that her mentally impaired daughter, Helena, is out of the asylum and living with Eva.

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Henri Langlois, the legendary cofounder of the Cinémathèque Française, changed the course of cinema history with his passionate advocacy for film culture, helping incubate the artistic explosion of the French New Wave. When the French government attempted to close down the Cinémathèque in 1968, Langlois’s movie mecca became a rallying point for the student protest movement that would soon bring France to the brink of revolution—and shut down that year’s Cannes Film Festival. Made two years later, this documentary portrait follows Langlois around the streets of Paris and features interviews with Lilian Gish, Simone Signoret, Catherine Deneuve, Kenneth Anger, Viva, and more.

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Could an amnesiac refugee named Anna Anderson (Ingrid Bergman) truly be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, purported sole survivor of the execution of Czar Nicholas II and his family during the Bolshevik Revolution of 1918, and therefore the rightful heir to the Czar’s fortune? Backed by a group of White Russian exiles led by General Bounine (Yul Brynner), she faces her possible grandmother, the imperious Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna (Helen Hayes), and the fortune-hunting Prince Paul (Ivan Desny).

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Roberto Rossellini directs his then-wife Ingrid Bergman in the suspenseful drama La Paura (Fear), based on the book by Stefan Zweig. Guilt-stricken Irene Wagner (Bergman) is forced to hide her secret affair with Erich Baumann (Kurt Kreuger) from her husband, Professor Albert Wagner (Mathias Wieman), a scientist in the midst of a serious breakthrough. However, Erich’s ex-girlfriend, Joanne (Renate Mannhardt), finds out and threatens blackmail. This throws Irene into a fit of homicidal and suicidal rage.

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https://nitroflare.com/view/006510DF8337730/La_paura_(Fear)_(1954)_–_Roberto_Rossellini.mkv

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After the death of her famous opera-singing aunt, Paula (Ingrid Bergman) is sent to study in Italy to become a great opera singer as well. While there, she falls in love with the charming Gregory Anton (Charles Boyer). The two return to London, and Paula begins to notice strange goings-on: missing pictures, strange footsteps in the night and gaslights that dim without being touched. As she fights to retain her sanity, her new husband’s intentions come into question.

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https://nitro.download/view/683F9101C506B40/Gaslight.1944.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Vincente Minnelli’s final film, A Matter of Time (1976), is both a love letter to the prodigious talents of his daughter Liza, and a fond farewell to the Golden Age of Hollywood–the era during which he did his best work, long gone by 1976. The film is based on the Maurice Druon novel, La volupté d’être (Film of Memory, 1954), which in turn was loosely based on the life of early 20th century art patroness and muse Marchesa Luisa Casati. The Contessa Sanziani (Ingrid Bergman) is a Belle Epoque courtesan who, like the real-life Casati, has fallen on hard times and is living in a shabby Roman hotel. Half-mad and enveloped in memories, the Contessa recounts her past triumphs to an impressionable hotel maid, Nina (Liza Minnelli), who imagines herself playing out the Contessa’s fabled life. As the Contessa fades, Nina blossoms….

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https://rapidgator.net/file/edeaa5c601e12bc6e340b8ddc74fd44c/A.Matter.of.Time.1976.DVDRip.x264.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:Spanish

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