Jean-Claude Carrière
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Français
Description
Summer of 1943. In occupied France, not far from the Spanish border, a famous old sculptor, who is tired of life and wars, finds the desire to work again on his last masterpiece when a beautiful young Spanish girl comes knocking after escaping a refugee camp in the South of France.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
Eight years after she left him for his best friend, journalist Abel gets back together with his recently widowed old flame Marianne. It seems to be a beautiful new beginning, but soon the hapless Abel finds himself embroiled in all sorts of drama: the come-ons of a wily Jeune femme, the machinations of Marianne's morbid young son, and some unsavory questions about what exactly happened to his girlfriend's first husband.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The last years of the great Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh are dramatized. The focus is on the time the artist spent in Ales and Auvers-sur-Oise, France. The art of painting itself and the painter's relationship with the concept of infinity are central themes. Not an exhaustive overview of all events in the final years of Van Gogh's life, but focuses on key elements the artist experienced as he struggled with mental turmoil and produced some of his...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Told through the eyes of celebrated Spanish painter Francisco Goya. Set against political turmoil at the end of the Spanish Inquisition and start of the invasion of Spain by Napoleon's army. Captures the essence and beauty of Goya's work which is best known for both the colorful depictions of the royal court and its people, and his grim depictions of the brutality of war and life in 18th century Spain. When Goya's beautiful muse is accused of being...
Series
Criterion collection volume 593
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Français
Description
The porcelain perfection of Catherine Deneuve hides a cracked interior in the actress's most iconic role: Severine, a chilly Paris housewife by night, a bordello prostitute by day.
Series
Publisher
Goldhil Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Allan is a British engineer who becomes entangled in a forbidden romance with his Indian employer's eldest daughter, Indira. As their passion ignites, the East-meets-West clash of cultures leads to surprising and tragic consequences.
Series
Criterion collection volume 55
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
A Czech doctor, dedicated to promiscuity, is forced to choose between his wife and his lover.
9) Valmont
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The vindictive widow Merteuil bets her friend debaucherous Valmont that he cannot seduce the virtuous (and married) Madame de Tourvel. If Valmont succeeds he may also bed Merteuil, but if he fails he must join a monastery. Set amongst the aristocracy in France in the 18th century.
12) Pierre Etaix
Series
Criterion collection volume 655
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Français
Description
The following films were influened by Pierre Etaix's experience as a circus acrobat, clown, and by the silent film comedies he adored.