Minne is a very imaginative young lady. She pretends to have had lovers and can’t think of anything better to do other than… to tell Antoine, her husband, the day she marries him. Bad beginning for the couple… As the marriage is not consummated for years, Minne feels frustrated and tries to find elsewhere the carnal knowledge she does not find at home. But Antoine is a kind-hearted man and on the occasion of a trip, a sexual balance is at last found between the two partners.
– Written by Guy Bellinger

1.27GB | 1h 26mn | 640×480 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/38F7CF16EF92059/linguinelibertine.avi
https://nitro.download/view/171EE1653D79F18/linguinelibertine.srt

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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Olivia captures the awakening passions of an English adolescent sent away for a year to a small finishing school outside Paris. The innocent but watchful Olivia develops an infatuation for her headmistress, Mlle. Julie, and through this screen of love observes the tense romance between Mlle. Julie and the other head of the school, Mlle. Cara, in its final months. Although not strictly autobiographical, Olivia draws on the author’s experiences at finishing schools run by the charismatic Mlle. Marie Souvestre, whose influence lived on through former students like Natalie Barney and Eleanor Roosevelt. Colette wrote the screenplay for the 1951 film adaptation of the novel.

1.98GB | 1h 36mn | 784×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/842949DD5821694/Jacqueline_Audry_-_(1951)_Olivia.mkv
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https://nitroflare.com/view/9D45BFAD2390617/Jacqueline_Audry_-_(1951)_Olivia.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/F3E2B03F8097A3E/Jacqueline_Audry_-_(1951)_Olivia.part2.rar

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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Daniele Delorme is a turn-of-the-century teenage courtesan-in-training in the French romantic comedy Gigi (1948). Instructed by her beloved grandmother Yvonne de Bray (Mamita) and glamorous courtesan aunt Gaby Morlay (Alicia) in the art of using her feminine wiles, 16-year-old Gigi learns how to select a man’s cigar, determine the value of the various jewels she will be given by her rich lovers, chew her meat while continuing to carry on a conversation and other priceless tidbits in the feminine arsenal of seduction.

Her first test in l’amour is a plan hatched by her aunt and grandmother who want to unite her with a longtime, wealthy family friend and playboy Gaston (Franck Villard). Gaston has recently had his heart broken by a mistress who betrayed him with her ice skating instructor. The scene where Gaston and fellow rake Honore (Jean Tissier) ride in their car coats and goggles on a primitive automobile to the countryside to expose the lovers’ secret liaison is one of many amusing moments in director Jacqueline Audry’s film.

The man who once brought her candy and played innocent games of cards with Gigi is suddenly transformed into a romantic prospect and the schoolgirl soon falls in love with Gaston. But Gigi surprises both her grandmother and her aunt with the depth of her feminine arsenal of seduction when she actually makes playboy Gaston fall in love with her in this sophisticated French story of true love triumphing over all. The film works so well in large part due to Delorme who conveys both delightful innocence and an independent spirit that surely play no small part in wooing Gaston.

Esteemed French woman of letters Colette penned the novel Gigi in 1945 when she was 72, which was then adapted by French screenwriter Pierre Laroche for this 1948 screen adaptation. But the more familiar Gigi is undoubtedly the 1958 Technicolor Hollywood musical starring Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier as Honore. MGM producer Arthur Freed decided on a musical version of Gigi after watching the French adaptation. In the interim, Gigi had enjoyed some success in a Broadway version starring Audrey Hepburn, who declined to appear in Freed’s film.

Gigi was made by the French director Jacqueline Audry, who once worked as an assistant director under Pabst, Ophuls and others and conveys more of the culture and sophistication of the director’s background than the 1958 Hollywood version. Colette, who wrote the novel on which Gigi was based, was also a music hall dancer, mime and a multitalented woman of letters who wrote books, screenplays and even film criticism as early as 1916, and whose novels often deal with the pain and pleasures of love. Colette injected a fair amount of scandal into her stage work as well, baring her breast in one performance and causing a riot at the Moulin Rouge when she mimed copulation onstage. Audry would go on to direct three more adaptations of works by Colette starring Daniele Delorme.

1.46GB | 1 h 39 min | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/FA097F52FF7AC9B/Gigi.1949.DVDRip.x264-FuFu.mkv
https://nitroflare.com/view/75D8EC70E38A73F/Gigi.1949.DVDRip.x264-FuFu_-_eng_02.srt

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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Olivia captures the awakening passions of an English adolescent sent away for a year to a small finishing school outside Paris. The innocent but watchful Olivia develops an infatuation for her headmistress, Mlle. Julie, and through this screen of love observes the tense romance between Mlle. Julie and the other head of the school, Mlle. Cara, in its final months. Although not strictly autobiographical, Olivia draws on the author’s experiences at finishing schools run by the charismatic Mlle. Marie Souvestre, whose influence lived on through former students like Natalie Barney and Eleanor Roosevelt. Colette wrote the screenplay for the 1951 film adaptation of the novel.

2.33GB | 1h 36mn | 790×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/128003DDFF1A4EF/Olivia.1951.576p.WEB.AAC.2.0.x264-SaL.mkv

Language:French
Subtitles:English (hardcoded)

The post Jacqueline Audry – Olivia AKA The Pit of Loneliness (1951) first appeared on Cinema of the World.