Based on the 1967 novel by Canadian author Timothy Findley, THE LAST OF THE CRAZY PEOPLE is a French naturalist drama from director Laurent Achard. Martin is a young boy growing up in a family on the brink of collapse, the story is presented from his perspective as he passively watches it slowly crumble around him.*
Young Martin watches the quirky, extraordinary events that occur in and around the family home and barn from a distance. Quiet and introverted, it is only the housemaid and occasionally his brother, Didier, who pay him any attention. As for his mother, she has locked herself away in her room, while his grandmother assumes control of the household, which is slowly falling apart. When Didier discovers that his next-door neighbour and lover have decided to get married, all hell breaks loose, and the family disintegrates.

Laurent Achard won the best director prize at Locarno for this bizarre and brutal film that is destined for underground cult status.
“Achard ratchets up the tension with chilling control” – Variety (Peccadillo Pictures)

Le.dernier.des.fous.2006.DVDRip.x264.AC3-DEEP.mkv

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Runtime:	1h 34mn
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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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A young woman’s return home brings up troubles from the past, while her teenage sister is anxious for the future.
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« Depuis la mort littéraire de J.D. Salinger, les enfants-poissons se font rares. De toute façon, muets comme ils étaient, il n’y avait pas grand-monde pour les écouter. L’art du jeune Laurent Achard consiste à pister ces derniers poissons à visage humain, ces petits têtards, ces petits d’homme. Ce qui ne veut pas dire, loin de là, que son cinéma coule de source. Les sources sont secrètes, il faut connaître le mot de passe. Se souvenir de ce qu’on appelait, peut-être abusivement, «le cinéma». Plus qu’hier, moins que demain, il faut attendre qu’il vienne, il faut patienter. Il appartient à l’école classique, celle de Renoir, celle de Ford. L’enfant-poisson, ce n’est pas Tarzan, il ne vous saute pas dessus comme Johnny Weissmuller. Est-ce que c’est un enfant-poisson, d’ailleurs? Ce serait plutôt un cadet d’eau douce, un chat écorché qui n’a pas peur de faire sa vie dans les rivières. Un enfant d’eau douce, qui ne pleurerait pas devant? Eau douce ne veut pas dire cinéma lacrymal. Même les larmes, ça se met en scène. Stahl savait, Sirk savait, McCarey savait. Le jeune Achard sait aussi. »
Louis Skorecki, Libération, Novembre 2001

1.32GB | 1h 22m | 1021×552 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/8A1BF82FA14AC3F/Plus_qu’hier,_moins_que_demain_(1998)_DVDRip_x264_AC3-trand.mkv

Language:French
Subtitles:None

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Sylvain (Pascal Cervo) is the mild-mannered projectionist at Cinéma Empire, a single-screen art house and repertory theater that is scheduled to close in a few days. In complete denial of the cinema’s impending demise, Sylvain carries on with business as usual, screening Jean Renoir’s French Cancan (1954) twice a day for the theater’s few remaining customers.

Whenever not at work, Sylvain roams the streets to fulfill his gruesome fetish for women’s ears; then, Sylvain dutifully returns to his apartment in the basement of the Cinéma Empire to place his latest “trophy” in a sinister shrine that is dedicated to the memory of his deceased mother. Hidden behind a giant subway poster for Jacques Tati’s Playtime, the cavernous secret room is decorated with creepily mutated photographs of Hollywood stars. It is not until Sylvain’s backstory is filled in by way of flashbacks to his childhood that we can begin to understand the significance of ears, earrings and actresses for Sylvain. A cinephile with some seriously creepy mother issues, Sylvain’s tranquil persona makes this absurd daily ritual all that more shocking.

2.26GB | 1h 17m | 1280×692 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/19A44688939C844/Last.Screening.2011.720p.WEB-DL.H264.AAC-Fxe.mkv

Language:French
Subtitles:English,Traditional Chinese

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