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Summer 1939. The explorer and photographer Ella Maillart and the writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach set off from Geneva by car with Kafiristan as their destination. Ella Maillart – Double Journey is the story of a special friendship, an escape from Europe, from the Geneva of 1939, already showing the early signs of what was to become the Nazi nightmare. The two intellectual and rebellious women throw themselves into an adventure. A search for the exotic, the unspoiled, the faraway, everything that can put up a wall between the East and a Europe that will be difficult to go back to ‒ so strong is the impending specter of evil.
Bigini and Lewinsky’s film was written from diaries and letters that Maillart wrote on the journey, accompanied by and superbly edited together with photographs and 16mm films taken over the long trips. Through exceptional and previously unreleased footage, Ella Maillart – Double Journey tells the story of one of the greatest explorers of the twentieth century at a crucial moment of her life. Narrated by the great actress Irène Jacob, it is a hypnotic, expansive film, a journey through the mind of a woman of heightened sensitivity who would have found it difficult to be satisfied living a bourgeois lifestyle in Geneva. Throughout the documentary (certainly not used in the classic sense of the word) there is a material and physical feeling; it is possible to perceive the feelings, thoughts and dreams of the two women during the journey.
Duccio Ricciardelli

The film has its roots in a previous project, dedicated to restoring the 16mm footage shot by Maillart. How do we present this problematic material, hardly edited, precious but mute? The wealth of unpublished archival documents suggested a critical historical edition, but then the beauty and expressive power of the images and texts imposed a different direction, a new film.
Mariann Lewinsky

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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English – hc

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Follows the lives of 20 characters who live in a massive social housing project in the Negev desert.

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Language(s):Hebrew
Subtitles:English

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Three French journalists travel to Cambodia in 1978 after receiving an invitation from the Khmer Rouge regime, embarking on a perilous adventure.

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Subtitles:French (Forced), English

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Dark” was filmed in 2013 and released in 2014 under the title “Dying of the Light”. The film was taken from me after the first director’s cut, re-edited, scored and mixed without my input.

I offered to revisit de film, cut and mix a new version at my own expense but was denied permission by the producers.

This cut was created using work print DVDs. I had no access to the original hi-res footage and unmixed sound. I used those limitations to my advantage when creating this new film.

I was working toward a more aggressive editing style when “Dying of the Light” was taken away from me. “Dark” represents the direction I was hoping to go.
“Dark” was not created for exhibition or personal gain.

It is for historical record.
– Paul Schrader

4.37GB | 1h 15m | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/5BA31D923806DEA/Dark.2017.DC.1080p.x264.AAC-PaulScharader.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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Krzysztof Kieślowski closes his Three Colors trilogy in grand fashion, with an incandescent meditation on fate and chance, starring Irène Jacob as a sweet-souled yet somber runway model in Geneva whose life dramatically intersects with that of a bitter retired judge, played by Jean‑Louis Trintignant. Meanwhile, just down the street, a seemingly unrelated story of jealousy and betrayal unfolds. Red is an intimate look at forged connections and a splendid final statement from a remarkable filmmaker at the height of his powers.

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https://nitroflare.com/view/EB5F8FC8E292738/Krzysztof_Kieslowski_-_(1994)_Three_Colors_-_Red.mkv

Language:French
Subtitles:English

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Synopsis:

Two parallel stories about two identical women; one living in Poland, the other in France. They don’t know each other, but their lives are nevertheless profoundly connected.

Review:

It is important to resist the temptation to figure out every last detail of “The Double Life of Veronique,” the mysterious and poetic new film by Krzysztof Kieslowski. That way lies frustration.

The parts do not quite fit, and anyway this is not a puzzle to be assembled. It is a romance about those moments we all sometimes have when we think we see ourselves at a distance. Is there, we wonder, more than one me? Why haven’t I ever seen a portrait in a gallery that looks exactly like myself – or anyone I know? How would I feel if I did? The movie is about two young women, one named Veronique, one named Veronika, both played by Irene Jacob. They never quite meet, although their paths almost cross one day. One lives in France, the other in Poland. They were born on the same day. They have identical heart problems. They are both wonderful singers. One dies, the other doesn’t.

The movie could have been truly confusing if it cut back and forth between the two women, both played by the same actress, but it doesn’t. We follow the Polish Veronika until she shockingly collapses during a music recital, and then we pick up the thread on Paris. This is the reverse of what Luis Bunuel once did when he had two different actresses play the same woman interchangeably. With Kieslowski we are also a little confused: Is this the same woman? Did she not really die? We listen for clues. Then we realize there are none. First we saw one woman, now we see the other.

There is a long central section in the film which is a triumph of narrative technique. Veronique receives a tape in the mail. She listens to it, and eventually is able to identify it as the sounds in a train station – a particular station. She has received other clues, from a secret admirer who seems to challenge her to find him. She follows the clues, using enormous ingenuity, but when she finally meets the admirer she is chagrined, because there was nothing there, really, but the game, and somehow she felt there would be truth and illumination at the end of her quest. Perhaps this part of the film is a parable for the puzzle that Kieslowski has set us.

Sometimes I play a game in my life, which consists of returning to an exact place and time and duplicating an exact action.

Here I am again, I think, following my own footsteps. This cafe, on a rainy morning in Paris in the winter. The same waiter, the same order, the same book in my hand. And next year I will do this again.

The problem with these games is that they are locked in time. I can always repeat my action next year, but never last year. I cannot make an appointment in the past. Something like that game is what “The Double Life of Veronique” is about, with the addition that only the filmmaker, only Kieslowski, knows both of the women.

Are they the same woman? No. Why are they so similar? Perhaps because there are only so many differences that are possible.

Why does the second woman seem to feel a fleeting moment of pain when the first one dies? Kieslowski is not interested in the answers to such questions, because they would be meaningless speculations. But the possibility of such connections between lives is infinitely interesting. To think about them is to touch the mystery of consciousness.

When I do think I see myself at a distance, by the way, I never hurry to catch up. What if I were right? What would we say to each other?

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Extra commentary track in English by Annette Insdorf, author of Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski, is included.

2.86GB | 1h 38mn | 944×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/73517B881E4097C/The_Double_Life_of_Veronique_1991_576p_BluRay_x264-EA.mkv

Language:French, Polish
Subtitles:English(muxed)

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IMDB:
The relationship between a director and an actress takes a turn when the lines between art and life are crossed.

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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