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Bonifacio is 27 years old and he is roaming about Venice. He is trying to decide whether to accept a job or not. In so doing, he recalls all his past life: his love story with Gabriella, his old friend Claudio, who had always regarded working as a worthwhile thing, the war, the partisans. What will he do? (Written by Baldinotto da Pistoia)
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https://nitro.download/view/4E40CF6C9BB055A/Chi_lavora_e_perduto_AKA_Who_works_is_lost.mkv
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Language(s):italian
Subtitles:English
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Synopsis (courtesy of the IMDB):
Old Félix, a prosperous land owner in Haute Provence, will be expropriated because a dam is being built on the River Durance and his estate is to be flooded. He receives thirty million francs in compensation but dies soon after. Hortense, his only daughter, inherits the money but the trouble is that Félix has hidden the loot somewhere and it is nowhere to be found. All of Hortense’s next of kin suddenly take an interest in the “poor orphan” and those greedy ones – with the exception of kind-hearted uncle Simon – put pressure on the girl, and try – through wile, threat and even murder, to inveigle her inheritance. But however young and frail Hortense is, she is nobody’s fool.
L.eau.vive.AKA.Girl.and.the.River.1958.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv
General
Container: Matroska
Runtime: 1 h 30 min
Size: 1.35 GiB
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#1: French 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Stereo)
Language:French
Subtitles:French, English
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I’m the marquis de Lafayette !
..or La Fayette ,the French spelling.The first thing to bear in mind is that ,at the time,it was the biggest budget France had ever spent for a movie:hence the cast which includes Orson Welles as Franklin -a part he had already played in Sacha Guitry’s “si Versailles m’était conté”-,Vittorio DeSica ,Jack Hawkins ,Edmund Purdom ,Liselotte Pulver;on the other hand,the French stars are not big names: Pascale Audret and Michel LeRoyer were far from being very famous compared with Bardot,Delon,Belmondo,Ventura or Moreau.Other assets were Claude Renoir’s peerless cinematography and a lilting tuneful score .
But the harsh truth is that Dreville’s epic is virtually forgotten in today’s French collective memory:it has completely disappeared from dictionaries of films even the ones which feature the worst bombs though.And it’s certainly unfair.Michel Dreville has never been an unrecognized genius as his earlier works testify:melodrama -the priceless weepie “la cage aux rossignols”-,biographies- “horizons sans fin” about female pilot Hélène Boucher-,Alexandre Dumas -the first version of “la reine Margot ,which ,despite of Jeanne Moreau ,is inferior to Chereau’s remake with Isabelle Adjani.As for his comedies (“les sept péchés capitaux”,” à pied ,à cheval ou en spoutnik” ),since we cannot say something nice.His best works are probably “copie conforme” ,thanks to Louis Jouvet, an actor so great any movie he makes cannot be bad,and this “Lafayette”.
“Lafayette’ is not really a biography for Lafayette’s story is far from being over after his American adventure:he played a prominent part in the French revolution and even during the Restoration.Michel Le Royer is well cast as the lead:he has youth,panache and enthusiasm going for him and he’s credible -it was a hard task because the marquis was barely twenty -:he embodies the end of the courtier,as Louis the Fourteenth wanted the noble to be:the scene with Monsieur ,the king’s brother is revealing.Lafayette was ahead of his time, a visionary who had read the philosophers and who felt things were about to change:”now liberty has a home” he says ,on his way back to France.He could have added ” and its home is not mine”.
First part takes place in France ,after a short prologue which shows Brave New World’s plight;the second one makes good use of the cinemascope for the battles scene.The dialogue is above average .Besides,the director displays respect for the audience :the American and English speak English -there are a lot of subtitles-,and the French French,which,at the time was not that much obvious.Even Lafayette tries his hand at English with a funny accent.And unlike “the patriot” ,in Dreville’s movie,the English are not sadistic brutes and nasty executioners
Historians are going to say that,for instance, Marie -Antoinette and Lafayette ,were not as thick as thieves ,and that the queen called the New World hero “Monsieur Blondinet” (=fair-haired boy,meant pejoratively).These are minor quibbles.”La fayette” is not a masterpiece,but it’s pretty entertaining .
DVD Format: PAL
Program: DVDShrink
Menus: None
Video: Untouched
Audio: Untouched
DVD extras: None
133 min.
https://nitro.download/view/D8303E8C5811EEE/Lafayette.part1.rar
https://nitro.download/view/EECC1CF0B7C255A/Lafayette.part2.rar
https://nitro.download/view/BB6DF0AA18D4FC9/Lafayette.part3.rar
Language(s):French and English
Subtitles:Hardsubbed French for English parts
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Quote:
Sven is Norwegian and his future is Kathmandu, the city of the gods.
Their paths meet and it is side by side they choose to take the path that leads up to the holiest city in Asia.
Olivier is French and this is the revolution.
May 68, Oliver is standing on the barricades, head full of new ideas to change the world.
2.48GB | 1h 35m | 1024×576 | mkv
https://nitro.download/view/7D7F58C04C2F3C0/Les.chemins.de.Katmandou.1969.576p.BluRay.AC3.x264.mkv
Language:French
Subtitles:English
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