“Those who assume classical musicians are sissies may have to adjust their thinking after Tomorrow At Dawn, in which classical music meets historical battle re-enactments to excellent effect…

The film starts involvingly with a cluster of men in late 18th century military attire preparing for a swordfight in a misty field. The effort expended by the two adversaries, punctuated by the clang of metal, is thrilling. One opponent draws blood. Cut to a contemporary setting in which concert pianist and composer Mathieu (Vincent Perez) is giving a piano lesson in the tasteful salon of the apartment he shares with his wife and young son. After the lesson, he drives to the suburban Paris house where his seriously ailing mother (Françoise Lebrun) lives with Mathieu’s younger brother Paul (Jérémie Renier). She will soon leave for a long hospital stay and knows Paul’s emotional stability depends on Mathieu’s support in her absence. Paul works in a warehouse but devotes all his spare time to a clandestine battle re-enactment group centred on two regiments of Emperor Napoleon’s forces. To say that participants are deadly serious about dressing up and pointing vintage weapons at each other while speaking in the ultra-formal language of a bygone France would be an understatement…

Straightforward but effective widescreen filming and editing keep several emotional layers percolating simultaneously. Dercourt doles out information in gradual doses, toggling back and forth between the demands of the Napoleonic Wars and the obligations of everyday life, until the two are intertwined on a level that demands action… As with Dercourt’s five previous features, the musical score is perfectly chosen and smartly applied.” – Screen Daily

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The Price Of Desire is a film that revolves around a triangular tale of insidious chauvinism of Eileen Gray (Orla Brady), the remarkable bisexual designer, architect, and artist from Ireland. The film is set in and around e1027, the iconic villa that was her most abiding work. It delves deep into the controversy of how Le Corbusier (Vincent Perez), the egotistical ‘Father of Modernism,’ defaced its walls and also erased Eileen’s moral right of being recognized as the architect. He even erased her ownership of the house that she created with so much affection for her lover and his friend, Jean Badovici (Francesco Scianna).

Eileen Gray’s Cote d’Azur villa, the e1027, is now seen as one of the most influential 20th-century modern architecture, and it plays a crucial role in the film. This is a useful visual metaphor of the malicious misogyny that condemned her legacy to nearly a century of neglect. Today, her reputation has been rightfully restored, and she is recognized as one of the top influential designers and architects of the modern era. The film uses a unique cinematic approach to highlight her essential yet elegant aesthetic.

The Price Of Desire charts the entire narrative with a visual roadmap of her complete works to recount the great professional and personal costs of Eileen Gray’s most important relationships. It also brings to light the personal impact on women in the workplace because of gender discrimination – a universal issue that women deal with to this day in many professions.

Marisa Damia, the French chanteuse, is Gray’s on/off lover and is portrayed by Alanis Morissette, who returned to her first love of acting with this role. As far as the other cast members are concerned, Catriona Balfe plays Gaby Bloch in a cameo, and Dominique Pinon plays Fernan Leger. Brian Byrne composed the award-winning original score of the film, while Julian Lennon took the spectacular stills.

Courtney Cox, Manager of Content Acquisitions & Marketing at Giant Pictures, said, “The Price Of Desire brings to life Eileen Gray’s work and astounding legacy. We feel her story is as timely as ever and are thrilled to share it with audiences on digital platforms.”

In director Mary McGuckian’s words, it is “more than a movie, more of a movement,” especially how Eileen Gray’s many worlds contributed to the production. From the support of Aram Design in the course of the restoration work on her e1027 villa in South France to the re-enactment of the very famous YSL-Le Berger sale for €28m of her ‘Dragon Chair’ at Christies, Paris. Eileen Gray’s ergonomically efficient and minimalist yet elegant approach to design and architecture inspires contemporary designers, now more than ever. Long story short, Eileen Gray can be hailed as the “Mother of Modernism” if Le Corbusier was the ”Father of modernism,” and she certainly deserves our respect.

The film is credited for kick-starting the movement that led to Eileen Gray’s legacy being reinstated as one of the most iconic and inspiring innovators of contemporary architecture and design of the 20th century. It also contributed immensely to the restoration of the iconic e1027 villa.

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Language(s):French,English
Subtitles:English hard subs where needed

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At the age of 20 Michel was going out with Sonia and was the charismatic leader of their group of friends, and the one that everyone thought would “go far”. But Michel did not live up to their expectations. Ten years later, the friends meet up again…
In 1987, Patrice Chereau had been heading up the Theatre des Amandiers for two years. The previous year he staged a contemporary production of Chekov’s Platonov with his students from the Ecole des comediens de Nanterre-Amandiers. It was them, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Vincent Perez, Marianne Denicourt, Agnes Jaoui, that he brought onto the film set to adapt his own theatrical adaptation for the cinema. It is a great pleasure to see the first steps in front of the camera of these as yet unknown actors in Hotel de France.

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Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.

+Commentary by Ginette Vincendeau)

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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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Synopsis
An ambitious project of Chile-born, Paris-based Raul Ruiz, this psychological drama brings to the screen the famous classic of Marcel Proust with fidelity to its interior monologues and streams of consciousness. Proust (Marcello Mazzarella), on his deathbed in his small apartment on Rue Hamelin, is looking through old photos and remembering his life, as real characters intermingle with fictional ones from his novels. The period is 1914-18, when WWI is raging. Hidden in Paris, thanks to his asthma, Marcel Proust wanders into the night. He finds an aging courtesan in Café de la Paix, which is deserted by the curfew. Charlus, the seducer of young boys, is at the Palais des Felicites where he meets his lovers. Gilberte returns alone to Tansonville to evade the confiscation of her chateau by the Germans after the death of her husband at the front. Famous violinist Morel is hiding in a decrepit hotel. The demoralizing effects of war affect all the characters, hastening their decadence or transforming them into caricatures. In the whirlpool of the grotesque specter of war, Marcel finds refuge in his childhood memories to escape the atrocities around him. Death and decadence, the evanescence of human existence, and the relations between space and time are some of the main themes explored in this film, which reflects the works of Marcel Proust in every detail. Raul Ruiz has on his side a very good screenwriter, Gilles Taurand, and an impressive cast: Catherine Deneuve and John Malkovich, who have collaborated with Ruiz before, Emanuelle Béart, Vincent Pérez, Pascal Greggory, and the Italian man of theatre, Marcello Mazzarella. Shown in competition at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.

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

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