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This free-form Canadian drama chronicles the dysfunctional lives of six young people living in Montreal during the summer of 1994. All of the characters are in their twenties, and all are dissatisfied with modern life. Rita is hell on rollerblades and makes her free-wheeling living snatching purses and breaking into cars. She camps out in the apartment of her wealthy friend, Roxan who devotes her spare time to caring for the homeless. Lloyd is a skinhead Deejay for an alternative radio station. His self-important, outrageous ranting provides the background for the rest of the stories. Lloyd is in love with Loulou, a barmaid at a punk club. Loulou is involved in a boring relationship with a liquor store clerk, Marc; she looks to Lloyd for excitement. Finally, there is screwed-up Henriette, who is so busy venting her neurosis in her shrink’s office that she has no time to listen to the doctor’s advice.

Eldorado.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 49 min
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https://nitro.download/view/539FB1ACE46D669/Eldorado.mkv
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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, Dutch

The post Charles Binamé – Eldorado (1995) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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An uptight and conservative woman, working on tenure as a literacy professor at a large urban university, finds herself strangely attracted to a free-spirited, liberal woman whom works at a local carnival which comes to town.

When.Night.is.Falling.AKA.Quand.tombe.la.nuit.1995.480p.DVDrip.H264-KG.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 33 min
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#1:  	English 5.1ch E-AC-3 @ 384 kb/s (Movie)
#2:  	English 2.0ch E-AC-3 @ 128 kb/s (Commentary - Patricia Rozema)

https://nitro.download/view/C1DEC0916AB79A0/When.Night.is.Falling.AKA.Quand.tombe.la.nuit.1995.480p.DVDrip.H264-KG.mkv

https://rapidgator.net/file/cc682f695fe27c7a2e4b94d85c01b2b8/When.Night.is.Falling.AKA.Quand.tombe.la.nuit.1995.480p.DVDrip.H264-KG.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

The post Patricia Rozema – When Night is Falling (1995) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Even though they grew up in opposite parts of France, Gwen (Isild Le Besco) and Lise (Karen Alyx) are best friends and spend every summer vacation together on the Brittany coast where Gwen lives and Lise’s family has a summer home. But this summer is different because Lise’s family isn’t going on vacation for reasons that she won’t explain to Gwen. Sick of her parents bickering about money and missing her bosom buddy, Gwen finds a boyfriend and mingles with some horny out-of-towners. Now fifteen, she’s discovered that summer can be fun even if Lise isn’t there. Then suddenly, Lise shows up at Gwen’s house uninvited to stay for a couple of weeks. The following days are filled with unexpected surprises, causing the girls to reevaluate the importance of their friendship and the nature of their teenage anxieties. Anne-Sophie Birot’s first feature delicately captures the intimacy and uncertainty between two teenage girls whose lives are teetering on the verge of adulthood. The performances by newcomers Isild Le Besco and Karen Alyx are impressive for the subtle shifts in mood they express between wanting to be independent of one another while still remaining inseparable.

Girls.Can't.Swim.2000 .DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	1h 37mn
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https://nitro.download/view/E5BC71FC1126813/Girls.Can’t.Swim.2000_.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Anne-Sophie Birot – Les Filles ne Savent pas Nager aka Girls Can’t Swim (2000) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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The most exuberant set piece in the acutely sensitive Set Me Freefinds two girls blithely spurning the puppy-dog attentions of the boys at a dance party to hold hands and exchange gazes. As in much of her autobiographical coming-of-age tale, director Léa Pool uses long, steady close-ups to limn the girls’ discovery of each other, coaxing tender, unaffected performances from her two young actresses. They stand on the precarious threshold of adolescence, when physical love has not yet divided into erotic and platonic categories.

Set Me Free ponders how a young person can make a livable home out of this liminal space yet flee its restrictions as quickly as possible. Karine Vanasse, as the protagonist Hanna, is perfectly cast because she has the body of a woman and the sweet, sexless face of a child. Her character, growing up in Montreal during the early ’60s, craves embrace, and she seeks it out from her parents, teacher, brother, and best friend Laura—these last two and Hanna even form a spin-the-bottle love triangle. Not yet 14, Hanna is already searching for an escape hatch from her loving but claustrophobic and emotionally volatile household, where her delicate mother (Pascale Bussières), a Catholic with something of a martyr complex, works long hours as a seamstress to support her children and husband (Miki Manojiovic), a Polish Jew and combative aspiring poet who all but refuses to work a paying job. Seeking refuge in the cinema, Hanna becomes obsessed with the existential Parisian prostitute Nana in Godard’s Vivre Sa Vie, memorizing lines, mimicking her carriage, even finding Anna Karina’s doppelgänger in her sympathetic teacher (Nancy Huston). With generous excerpts from Vivre Sa Viewoven throughout, Set Me Free becomes a movie within a movie, but Pool’s meta-narrative leanings always serve empathic character study. Her film is a tribute to cinema love and all of its engendering possibilities. The movies made Hanna, for better and worse, and by the end of Set Me Free, Hanna is making movies.

1.76GB | 1h 35m | 706×529 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/05930CDAE0A38B9/Emporte.Moi.1999.DVDRip.x264.mkv

Language:French
Subtitles:English

The post Léa Pool – Emporte-moi AKA Set Me Free (1999) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Journalist Bruno (Auteuil) is swithering between a wavering wife (Devos) and a much younger girlfriend (Sagnier), and politically undecided after the collapse of communism. Realising a break in routine is required, he answers a call for help from his uncle (Yanne), which takes him to the countryside near Grenoble. Charged with delivering a letter to the old man’s romantic rival, he’s soon deep into uncharted territory and a disorienting encounter with the volatile Béatrice (Scott Thomas). All this resolves itself into a narrative homily about needing to lose yourself in order to find your way again, but you get the feeling that Bonitzer (former Cahiers du Cinéma editor and frequent Rivette collaborator) is less interested in the destination than the uncertainties of the journey. His third feature is strongest on tantalising playfulness, as a Hitchcockian MacGuffin (what’s in the letter?) leaves an already reeling Auteuil up a mountain, in a forest, facing a house of strangers. With John Scott’s Herrmann-esque music saturating the proceedings in romantic unease, the film subtly massages expectations, before the leading man’s rather too practised little-boy-lost routine is supplanted by the brittle intensity Scott Thomas brings to her role as a wayward spouse thrown by her own unruly emotions. And yet, while the film’s keenly aware of the transient anxieties and longings that shape experience, we never really grasp the characters’ feelings for ourselves. As an acting display it impresses – but academically.
~Time Out Film Guide

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https://nitro.download/view/EB7F2F3AD44A2DB/Petites_coupures.avi
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https://nitro.download/view/F5FD1C1A4B5C5E0/Making-of.avi
https://nitro.download/view/5C8C4BDF03F2257/Making-of.srt

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English srt.

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An uptight and conservative woman, working on tenure as a literacy professor at a large urban university, finds herself strangely attracted to a free-spirited, liberal woman whom works at a local carnival which comes to town.

688MB | 01:33:50 | 544×304 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/515BCDC478AF86B/whennightisfalling.avi
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Language:English + Director’s Commentary
Subtitles:None

The post Patricia Rozema – When Night Is Falling (1995) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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There’s a blood vessel that pumps between the selves we drive through the day and the incubus we nourish, a creative self (perhaps cocreated by a love), relatively unconstrained, who we promise ourselves we will birth some day. The most sublime art is what we imagine that young, more unfettered mind imagines. Its why we live, a large part of it, I think. This is the domain Maddin has decided to explore. Its a sort of Joycean commitment, a raw commitment to dreams less shaped than usual by borrowed items and fed by distilled urges in blood. Small surprise that these don’t fully resonate; its supposed to be strange, strange in disturbing ways. I like the fact that this goes on too long. It has to go on long enough to plainly state that you are not a tourist, instead you’ve unknowingly entered something you can never really leave. In its general shape, it is “The Tempest” meets the “Sarrogossa Manuscript” visually flavored by Max Parrish. It has dreams within dreams and as they shift different controlling or dreaming minds move to the foreground, even a statue (us). There are sexual enchantments, shifting from honesty and deceit, knowing and manipulated. There’s a Prospero and a Miranda, a Bloom/hunter who dreamhunts.

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https://nitro.download/view/A8BF1815E2A65CF/Guy_Maddin_-_(1997)_Twilight_of_the_Ice_Nymphs.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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