The Little Apocalypse is a 1993 French comedy film, an adaptation of Tadeusz Konwicki’s novel, directed by Costa-Gavras. It was entered into the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival. It follows the trials of a Pole who lives in France who wants his written work published. Unable to get anywhere, he starts to enlist help from others, resorting to some unusual extremes.

Synopsis:
An unknown Polish writer can’t publish his novels, so his ex-wife decides to help him and get some of the profit for herself. She finally finds a publisher, but there’s a strange single condition that could cost the writer his life.

La Petite Apocalypse (1993).mkv

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Language(s):French, Polish
Subtitles:French HoH, French forced for polish parts, English (autotranslated)

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A young woman disguises herself as a knight to expose a gold-digging man divided between her and a Countess.

Jacquot began his career as assistant director of Marguerite Duras (Nathalie Granger, India Song) and as an actor in films directed by Jean-Claude Biette. Then turned to writing and directing with the 1975 film L’Assassin musicien (The Musician Killer) which starred Anna Karina.

He usually alternated between film and TV. In the latter he made a name by adapting stories by Henry James, Borges and Kafka. Several of his films are also adaptations of famous works of the literature, among which La Fausse suivante (The False Servant) displays Marivaux’s play of the same title. But more than an adaptation, I would call this an ‘exposition’ or rather an ‘expositive indagation’ of the theatrical stuff that lies at the film’s origin.

It’s funny that Marivaux’s plays gave rise to the rather deprecative term ‘marivaudage’, denoting an affected style, usually strained, over-elegant, too subtle and too nice by half (this is the guy of whom Voltaire said he had “spent his entire life weighing nothing in scales of spider’s webs”… as a matter of fact, I guess I remember the term was also applied to Rohmer’s movies). I would consider this film to be (among other things) a mockery regarding those who would use the word too easily as a derogatory weapon. Marivaudage au carré.

	
La.fausse.suivante.2000.FRENCH.WEB.DL.720p.mkv

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Language(s):French
Subtitles:none

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In Paris in the 1920s, a concert violinist meets and falls in love with a stylish young flapper who’s the wife of an old friend. Romaine instigates the affair with Marcel, and carries it forward even as her husband, Pierre, falls ill. She may even be purposely giving Pierre a treatment that adds to his misery. After Marcel returns from a concert tour and Romaine stoops to a new low in abandoning Pierre for an assignation, she reconsiders the affair and takes a drastic step. Three years later, Pierre pays Marcel a visit to demand the truth. Will the jealous and aggrieved Marcel manage a convincing performance?

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https://nitro.download/view/6A90D1FF7B7A4DC/Melo.1986.BDRIP.2K.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language:French
Subtitles:English

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Simon secretly loves Camille. Camille, due to a misunderstanding, falls for Marc Duveyrier. Marc, a handsome realtor, who’s also Simon’s boss, is trying to sell an apartment to Odile Lalande, Camille’s sister. Odile really wants this apartment, despite the silent disapproval of her husband, Claude. Claude, somewhat wan in character, finds it hard to stomach the reappearance, after many years, of Nicolas. Nicolas, an old friend of Odile’s becomes the confidant of Simon… The dialogue is in part made up of extracts of French hit songs, sung in situation by the actors.

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https://nitro.download/view/AD72A8E25C4E409/On.connat.la.chanson.AKA.Same.Old.Song.1997.720p.mkv
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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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Starring the dependable Pierre Arditi with a very bad case of unshakable hangdog expression, as well as Jean Reno, Pierre Jolivet’s first movie as a director (he had also co-written “Le Dernier Combat” with Luc Besson) , “Strictement Personnel” is – in some ways – a typical paranoid French thriller, in which the main character gets reunited with his estranged family, with some not-altogether-successful dream flashes.

549MB | 1h 19m | 732×412 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/B6B707BE4A90AD9/StrictementPersonnel.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:None

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Roberto Rosselini directs this fascinating program tracing the life and work of 17th century French mathematician, religious philosopher and physicist Blaise Pascal, who made pioneering contributions to the fields of geometry and probability. The legendary Rosselini created this television film as part of a remarkable series geared toward illuminating the evolution of knowledge and history in Western civilization.

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https://nitroflare.com/view/51FE263794BAD55/Blaise.Pascal.1972.DVDRip.x264.mkv
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https://nitroflare.com/view/919D2BA5485A145/Blaise.Pascal.1972.DVDRip.x264.part2.rar
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Language:Italian
Subtitles:English, Spanish

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Plot :
Guillaume de Burlador is a private tutor who hits a low point sufficiently severe for him to
contemplate a somewhat theatrical suicide. Instead he is taken off by flying boat to a mad French colonial possession bedecked by mad servants and crazy decor. Three rather gorgeous women live there,and old Guillaume is a randy old stoat.

A funny variation around Don Juan character.

Nelly Kaplan’s work has been marketed and promoted frequently as soft-core pornography, but that perhaps only illustrates the scarcity of strong women’s voices in world cinema. That scarcity, extreme when Kaplan first began creating films, still exists at the beginning of the new millennium to an astonishing degree. Apprenticed to such dynamic and sensually open French filmmakers as Gance, Resnais, and Truffaut, Kaplan began her work as a director when the first stirrings of second-wave feminism were beginning to be felt. Her films, though often marketed under lurid advertisements, and
given leeringly suggestive foreign titles, were most definitely a part of that movement.

That Kaplan’s films are erotic is beyond question, but they are much more than pornography, and to dismiss them as such is to deny the woman’s voice that speaks through her work. Kaplan’s films are radical precisely because they are erotic and that eroticism is presented from the female point of view and speaks to the female audience. Though some have called her films anti-feminist because they are often blatantly sexual, many feminists have claimed her as a powerful spokesperson because she gives women a sexual voice.

Her first internationally famous film, A Very Curious Girl, tells the story of a town slut,
victimized by the appetites of the local men, who claims control of her sexuality by becoming a prostitute. She not only begins to profit from what she once gave away for free, but begins use the power of her new position to exact revenge on those who humiliated her, turning her staid, patriarchial village upside down. Néa: A New Woman, sometimes more suggestively titled A Young Emmanuelle, tells the story of another empowered victim, this time a young girl whose hypocritical father governs her life with an iron hand. To escape, she begins to experiment with the idea of sexuality, finally writing an erotic novel under a pseudonym. Kaplan, who wrote short fiction and erotica under the pseudonym of Belen, might have tucked some of her own history into the story of Néa’s reinvention of herself. Charles et Lucie, about a couple who rediscover love after they have lost everything else, and The Pleasure of Love, about the lives and loves of three generations of women, continue Kaplan’s trend of highlighting the female experience.

The tone of most of Kaplan’s films is comic and positive, and the transformation of her female protagonists comes when they claim and control their own sexuality. This fact alone made Kaplan’s work notorious in the 1960s and 1970s, and she continues to hold that feminist viewpoint throughout her work. She has been compared to such French feminist filmmakers as Diane Kurys and Agnes Varda, who also began creating their films during the early days of modern feminism.

Kaplan’s documentary work has also been praised, particularly her work about her mentor Able Gance, Abel Gance et son Demain and Abel Gance et son Napoleon. Picasso himself is said to have admired her documentary about his 1966 Paris exhibition, Le Regard de Picasso.

—Tina Gianoulis

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Language:French
Subtitles:English

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