Synopsis
In 1779, the Marquis de Montauran returns to France and becomes the figurehead of a royalist uprising known as the Chouans. Their Republican enemies recruit the aristocrat Marie de Verneuil to capture the Marquis and thereby weaken the resolve of the Chouans. Unfortunately, Marie falls in love with the Marquis and is prepared to do anything so that she can marry him…

Vendée, fin du XVIIIe siècle. Après maintes défaites, le marquis de Montauran prend la tête des insurgés. mais le rassemblement est difficile. Nombreux sont sceptiques quant à ses qualités de commandement. Une espionne s’est, qui plus est, glissée dans ses rangs…

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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Henri Calef – Les Chouans AKA The Royalists (1947) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
From a plastic bowl to petroleum, we trace back through the complete industrial process that leads to the manufacture of plastic objects. The force of the commentary composed in alexandrine verse by Raymond Queneau matches the wide screen of CinemaScope proportions.

326MB | 13 min 37 s | 1024×438 | mkv

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Language:English
Subtitles:English

The post Alain Resnais – Le chant du Styrène AKA The Song of Styrene (1958) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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

1.19GB | 1h 41mn | 640×384 | avi

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Language:French
Subtitles:English

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Retour à l’aube is like Russian (or should we say Hungarian) dolls dreaming of each other : when the dream seems a dead-end or a nightmare, a new one begins in another tone. Danielle Darrieux being the unforgettable doll and key leading to the following dream, following film : drama, comedy, romance, musical, crime, oniric tale, etc… a perfect rainbow directed by Decoin. A film that could be compared to Pierrot le Fou for this rare quality of going through genres and tones as lightly as the air, which I tend more and more to attribute to people having penetrated the secret of cinematic life… or is it just love ? Maybe

1.67GB | 1h 32mn | 767×560 | mkv

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Language:French
Subtitles:English

The post Henri Decoin – Retour à l’aube aka She returned at dawn (1938) first appeared on Cinema of the World.