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Post-’68 France as “a curious country” of befuddled fathers and obscured revolutionaries. The middle-aged Everyhomme (Philippe Noiret) is a widowed watch-tinkerer in Lyon, who gets his politics from TV news and “likes to be legal” too much to cross a red light on an empty street. The necessary shock arrives: His son (Sylvain Rougerie) is on the run, having killed a factory security guard. Gallicizing Georges Simenon’s novel, Bertrand Tavernier handles the moment with control, self-effacement, and muted compassion: Noiret’s dazed bus ride back home after being told the news, the activist paraphernalia in the boy’s room (scrawled on the wall is Céline’s dictum about pastoral battlefields) unnoticed by an imploding father fumbling for a bed. A longtime critic, Tavernier has already learned all about the unnoticeable moving camera and the offscreen event that colors every character and relationship. The murder, no bit of adolescent existentialism but a militant act of protest, is never seen yet it propels Noiret to reconsider his values vis-à-vis the law (police inspector Jean Rochefort), the media (journalist Clotilde Joano), and politics (left-leaning pal and Tavernier lookalike Jacques Denis). “Paint not the thing but the effect it produces,” goes Mallarmé. Slowly and lovingly, a portrait of radicals and reactionaries emerges, of parents talking about the mysteries of their children while buying fruit at the market, of people revealing themselves in the way they put on their coats or cut the meat on their plates. And, in Noiret’s dignified-clown slouch, of old men still able to surprise themselves with a newfound engagement with the world — the train hurtling through the darkness in the opening becomes the final image of the locomotive pulling into airy Lyon Station. The flaming automobile carcass is next seen in Let Joy Reign Supreme, “executions will be televised in primetime” (Deathwatch).

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https://nitro.download/view/20617B90884B314/Bertrand_Tavernier_-_(1974)_The_Clockmaker_of_St._Paul.mkv
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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Bertrand Tavernier – L’horloger de Saint-Paul AKA The Clockmaker of St. Paul (1974) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
Arthur and Marcel, two firemen, keep boredom at bay by improvising on stage, one on a keyboard the other on drums, tunes, poems and songs. Carol arrives, in search of her lover Armand. Accompanied by the musicians, she sings of her strange loves and leaves. Then Armand turns up, in search of Carol, and the disturbing Cigare…

1.02GB | 1h 01m | 692×524 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/4764FDA17D64E5B/Les.nenuphars.1972.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/13D10929E6781F0/Les.nenuphars.1972.DE.srt
https://nitro.download/view/ED9B0F41813450E/Les.nenuphars.1972.EN.srt

Language:French
Subtitles:English,German

The post Michel Soutter – Les nénuphars (1972) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
‘Two men, arty though somewhat staid, are drawn to the spirited and quixotic Rosemonde, a young working-class woman whom they meet because they’re writing a teleplay about a minor but curious event in which either her uncle was wounded while cleaning his rifle or she shot him. Pierre is a free-lance journalist hired to write the script; he’s short of time so he asks a Bohemian novelist friend, Paul, to help. Pierre wants facts and tracks down Rosemonde for interviews that lead to other explorations; Paul only wants to imagine her and needs little more than her name to do so. But he does meet her, and she entangles him, too. Did she cause the shooting? Is she venomous or innocent?’

La Salamandre (1971).576p.mkv

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Runtime:	2h 4mn
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https://nitro.download/view/F3F631723C48575/La_Salamandre_(1971).576p.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Alain Tanner – La Salamandre (1971) first appeared on Cinema of the World.