The culmination of New Wave master Jacques Rivette’s legendary middle period (which ranged from L’Amour fou through Out 1, Céline and Julie Go Boating, Duelle, Noroît, and Merry-Go-Round), Le Pont du Nord envisions Paris as a sprawling game-board marked off with tucked-away conspiracies, where imagination and paranoia intermingle; where the hinted-at stakes are sanity, life, and death.

Regular Rivette actress Bulle Ogier stars as Marie, a claustrophobic ex-con who, shortly after wandering into Paris, encounters the wild and potentially troubled young woman Baptiste (Pascale Ogier, Bulle’s actual 22-year-old daughter). Baptiste, a knife-wielding, self-proclaimed karate expert with a drive to slash the eyes from faces in adverts (including, in one instance, those on a placard for Akira Kurosawa’s Kagemusha), accompanies Marie on her quest to solve the mystery behind the contents of her former lover’s (Pierre Clémenti’s) suitcase: an amalgam of clippings, patterns, and maps of Paris that points to a vastly unsettling labyrinth replete with signs and intimations whose menacing endgame remains all too unclear.

Gorgeously shot by the master cinematographer William Lubtchansky, Le Pont du Nord is a freewheeling, powerful experience whose hypnotic rhythm and ominous undercurrents resolve into a frightening and exhilarating portrait of post-revolutionary, early-’80s Paris – and in turn form a prime example of Rivette’s uncanny, occult cinema.

Le.pont.du.Nord.1981.576p.BluRay.FLAC1.0.x264-BV.mkv

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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, French, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified)

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A loose Biblical allegory starring the legendary model-artist-musician Zouzou as Mary Magdalene, French actor Pierre Clémenti as Jesus and the director himself as a misguided apostle.

Le.lit.de.la.vierge.1969.1080p.MUBI.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-CMYK.mkv

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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, French, German

The post Philippe Garrel – Le lit de la vierge AKA The Virgin’s Bed (1969) (HD) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Wheel of Ashes, made in Paris by the under-recognized Americdan director, Peter Emanuel Goldman, is a very powerful film that you will remember long after viewing it. A young man, played by French actor Pierre Clementi,(Belle de Jour) despondently wanders the Paris streets until he meets a young woman , played by the Danish actress Katinka Bo. At the same time he falls under the influence of the Indian Vedanta philosophy, which encourages giving up the world to find God. Pierre retreats to a tiny room near the Bastille to search for God, but ends up almost going insane from the terrible conflict between his search for God, his sexual desire and the attachment to his girlfriend.

	
Wheel.Of.Ashes.1969.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/97F0DB819798A18/Wheel.Of.Ashes.1969.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, French, German

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This quirky French film examines a series of events during the German occupation of France and shows what might have happened if one thing had gone differently in each instance. The first story given this treatment concerns the assassination of a German officer by a young member of the Resistance.

Du roman de Paul Guimard qui reprenait son thème favori, l’ironie du sort, Edouard Molinaro a tiré un film fidèle et impressionnant. En deux versions parallèles, l’une en couleur, l’autre en noir et blanc, aussi précises et rigoureuses l’une que l’autre, il nous montre les répercussions que peut avoir, dix ans plus tard sur des vies humaines, le geste dérisoire d’un officier allemand qui ignore tout de sa responsabilité. Les rêves d’Antoine se mêlent à la réalité avec une habileté étourdissante, et le flash-back final accroît encore l’émotion : un certain vertige devant l’incertitude de notre sort. Avec une efficacité mesurée, sans emphase, Molinaro dépeint l’angoisse d’un homme devant la fragilité de son destin et son impuissance à diriger sa vie, qui n’est qu’une suite de hasards. Il nous livre ses réflexions sur la destinée humaine, dérisoire et imprévisible, en prenant soin de nous adresser un clin d’œil qui nous préserve du pessimisme : le philosophe de service nous précise bien que “le hasard, c’est comme les enfants, ça se corrige, mais on n’est jamais tout à fait sûr du résultat…” On pourra lui reprocher d’avoir choisi un sujet de réflexion un peu stérile, et de toucher la sensibilité plus que l’intelligence. Mais son film est très bien mené, délicat sans fadeur, passionnant sans spectaculaire ; il a en outre le mérite d’être servi par des comédiens excellents, de Pierre Clémenti à Jacques Spiesser, en passant par Claude Rich, Pierre Vaneck, Jean Desailly et Marie-Hélène Breillat.
© Guy Allombert, “La Saison Cinématographique 1974”

DVD Source: DVD5 from VHS
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https://nitro.download/view/1321F3232D8CA76/L’Ironie_du_sort_(Edouard_Molinaro,_1974).rar

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Inspired by Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud and Jean-Luc Godard Bernardo Bertolucci’s third feature is the schizophrenic parable of Jacob, a would-be revolutionary whose lonely existence is shattered by the appearance of his exact double at the moment he contemplates suicide. While his doppelganger urges Jacob towards a greater commitment to protest against the Vietnam War, the young teacher falls in love with the daughter of his academic predecessor, forging a romance that defies the revolutionary ideals of his alter-ego.

Partner (1968).mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/1F756415610B67A/Partner_(1968).mkv

Language(s):Italian
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(auto-translated: ) An attempt to present, played by an actor, the mental universe of a schizophrenic, i.e. a patient whose inner life is supposed to be unable to distinguish between the dream world and reality. Description of the particularly rich oniric production of the subject (associative images, visual reminiscences, feelings of influence, strangeness) and its dramatic outcome.

Essai de présentation, joué par un comédien, de l’univers mental d’un schizophrène, c’est à dire d’un malade chez qui le vécu intérieur est censé ne plus pouvoir faire la différence entre le monde onirique et la réalité. Description de la production oniroïde particulièrement riche du sujet (images associatives, réminiscences visuelles, sentiments d’influence, d’étrangeté) et son aboutissement dramatique.

167MB | 21m 26s | 720×536 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/F241049D5957243/Autoportrait_d_un_schizophrene_(Eric_Duvivier,_1977).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/6AA52A730B8534B/Autoportrait_d_un_schizophrene_1977_EN_A&Z.srt
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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Éric Duvivier – Autoportrait d’un Schizophrène AKA Self portrait of a Schizophrenic (1978) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Homemade footage of parties, travel and everyday life. With Etienne O’Leary, Catherine Deneuve; the filming of “Idoles”, by Marc’O; Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Philippe Garrel; the filming of “Lit de la Vierge” …

Souvenirs.souvenirs.1967.1978.1080p.BluRay.AC3.x264-KG.mkv

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