Handsome young general Armand de Montriveau has searched across the seas for the woman he fell madly in love with five years ago. He finally finds Antoinette, the Duchess of Langeais, living chastely in a Majorcan convent… It was love at first sight for Montriveau upon meeting Antoinette, a married coquette who frequents the most extravagant balls of 1820s Restoration Paris, where hypocrisy and vanity reign. Flattered by his attentions, the alluring Antoinette orchestrates a calculating game of seduction, but she repeatedly refuses Montriveau. Despite his sincere romantic declarations, Montriveau’s passion remains unfulfilled. When the humiliated Montriveau eventually seeks his revenge, Antoinette’s love awakens. But it may well be too late for the star-crossed lovers.

”If mise en scène is a dance of love and death, few directors can fashion a choreography as romantic and tortuous as Rivette, in this dazzling two-hender costume melodrama.”
— Adrian Martin

RIVETTE Jacques-2007-Ne touchez pas la hache.mkv

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Runtime: 	2 h 11 min
Size: 	2.03 GiB
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Resolution: 	1280x720 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
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https://nitro.download/view/CF15B2250D5526F/RIVETTE_Jacques-2007-Ne_touchez_pas_la_hache.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/DD4CD5DE52915B5/RIVETTE_Jacques-2007-Ne_touchez_pas_la_hache.eng.srt

Language(s):French, Italian
Subtitles:English, hardcoded French for non-French sections

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The fascination of a young French woman for the controversial intellectual Bobby Vohler, who died 15 years earlier, takes her to Trieste in Italy. There, with the aid of his former friends, she tries to reconstruct the man’s life. She is led by the question of why this editor, highly regarded in literary circles, never published his own work. The young woman scours libraries and second-shops, in search of information about the legend she created herself. Her quest takes her finally to Wimbledon in England, where she meets the woman who is supposed to have known Vohler best.

“The Wimbledon Stage” is an adaptation of a novel by Italian author Daniele Del Giudice.
The writer upon who the young woman is investigating is inspired by Roberto Bazlen, the italian traductor of Kafka and Musil.

Le stade de Wimbledon.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 8mn
Size: 	1.09 GiB
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Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	2 000 Kbps
BPP: 	0.201
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#1:  	French 2.0ch AC-3 @ 256 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/B3A4A5F2D4DBEDC/Le_stade_de_Wimbledon.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/222BBE8665C8F1A/Le_stade_de_Wimbledon.srt
https://nitro.download/view/2F8C64430F07153/Le_stade_de_Wimbledon.fra.srt
https://nitro.download/view/886727EF266D795/Malus.mkv

Language(s):Mix of French, English and Italian
Subtitles:French srt for the English and Italian parts

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Camille has been away for three years and returns to Paris to perform a play by Pirandello directed by Ugo, her companion. She sets out to see Pierre, her former lover, again, while Ugo sets out on the trail of an unknown manuscript by Goldoni.

14GB | 3h 40mn | 1920×1040 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/35A82015C4B0E50/Va.Savoir.2001.EXTENDED.FRENCH.VOF.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H264-ALPiNE.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/BEC6165203C017A/Va.Savoir.2001.EXTENDED.FRENCH.VOF.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H264-ALPiNE.srt

Language(s):French,Italian
Subtitles:English

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The first years of the new millenium have marked something of a revival for the French New Wave, with Nouvelle Vague directors Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette all releasing major works which achieved both popular success and critical acclaim. Rivette’s offering is a charming romantic comedy which reminds us of the director’s passion for the theatre seen in his earlier works, such as Paris nous appartient (1961).

Va savoir is constructed as a play within a play, and ultimately ends up with its denouement being played out on a theatre stage. The main action of the film, involving a rolling love cycle reminiscent of Max Ophüls’ La Ronde (1950), is inter-cut with scenes of the stage performance of an Italian play. The themes of this play, cheated love, deceit and revenge, are re-enacted by the characters in the “true life” part of the film, who each embark upon a whimsical diversion in their love lives. Although the film is shot and constructed as a conventional film, with naturalistic every-day sets and dialogue, it gives the impression that it is itself a stage play – indeed, watching the film in a cinema is very much a theatrical experience, in the best tradition of Shakespeare and Molière.

The film is well-written, with some deliciously tongue-in-cheek dialogue and some hysterically funny moments bordering on the surreal (most noticeably the dinner party from Hell, the roof-top escape sequence and the vodka duel). The six principal actors are perfectly cast and offer great entertainment value, with particularly memorable performances from rising star Jeanne Balibar and charismatic Italian actor Sergio Castellitto.

Despite it being considerably shorter than most of Rivette’s works, Va savoir still manages to run for a respectable two and half hours (which is perhaps an hour too much for most cinema goers). However, that time passes very quickly: the combination of authentic-seeming relationships and sophisticated comedy engages the audience throughout and there is scarcely a moment of boredom. Va savoir offers that quintessentially French combination of wit, charm and honesty, parcelled up in an irresistibly delicious and intelligent way by one of France’s most radical and imaginative directors who, at the age of 73, still shows no sign of flagging.

2.26GB | 2h 34m | 706×466 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/A9A364F2BCEFCD3/Jacques_Rivette_-_(2001)_Va_savoir.mkv

Language:French,Italian
Subtitles:English

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Synopsis: A woman from Scotland, while traveling in Colombia, begins to notice strange sounds. Soon she begins to think about their appearance.

6.10GB | 2h 15m | 1920×1036 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/9157CF90028E05D/Memoria.2021.WEB-DL.1080p.JKP.Dream.mkv

Language(s):English, Spanish
Subtitles:English (only non eng parts)

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Abstract documentary account of the 2005 Festival Art Rock in Saint-Brieuc, France, featuring performances by Sonic Youth, Metric and others.

Performances by:
MIRROR/DASH (kim gordon – thurston moore)
JEANNE BALIBAR/RODOLPHE BURGER
METRIC
TEXT OF LIGHT (lee ranaldo – steve shelley)
AFEL BOCOUM
MARIE MODIANO
ALLA
WHITE TAHINA (joanna preiss – vincent epplay)
PASCAL RAMBERT
JIM O’ROURKE

2.27GB | 1h 54m | 771×434 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/6EF446CB4A60530/Noise.2006.DVDRip.x264-pirata00.mkv

Language(s):French, English, Sonrai(?)
Subtitles:None

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Mathieu Amalric’s directing debut is a comedy-drama about a not quite functional family…

1.18GB | 1 h 06 min | 932×572 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/2B50FE917DE338D/Mange.ta.soupe.1997.mkv
https://nitroflare.com/view/26539E64948B020/Mange.ta.soupe.1997.srt

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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