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Laissez-Passer
In Paris on March 3, 1942, while living under
Nazi Occupation, two men suddenly find their destinies forever intertwined.
One is Jean Aurenche, a screenwriter and poet who refuses to work
for the Germans and thus undertakes a heroic battle using the only
weapon at his disposal, his pen. The other is Jean Devaivre, an
assistant director in a film studio in Boulogne. Forced to work
for the German-run production company "Continental", Devaivre
finds his own methods of subtle defiance. One day he's given the
chance to pass some important Nazi documents on to the Resistance.
He takes the risk. While the two men know precious little of each
other, both find their own ways to undermine the Nazis. more>>
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Betty
Fisher and Other Stories
Two different women from different worlds:
Betty Fisher, a successful young writer, discovers the joys of motherhood
with her four-year-old son Joseph whom she cherishes; Carole, a
waitress in a bar at a shopping center, has had a difficult life
and has trouble showing love and affection to her son José.
These two young women, whose lives are so far apart, are brought
together by Betty's eccentric mother Margot, who has suddenly reappeared
after a long absence. After the tragic loss of Betty's son, Margot
develops an incredible scheme to prove her love to her daughter:
she "replaces" Joseph by another child. more>>
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Little
Senegal
After many years as a tour guide in the Slave
Museum on the island of Gorée in Senegal, Alloune, a 65-year-old
widower, decides to go to America to find the descendants of his
ancestors, taken away from his village two centuries before and
sold into slavery in the New World. From Charleston, South Carolina
to a small neighborhood in Harlem called Little Senegal, he reconstructs
his genealogical tree and follows it to Ida Robinson, his distant
cousin. Guided by his vision of reuniting his grand African family
separated by centuries, Alloune will be confronted with the bitter
social tensions and ostracism between the African and African-American
communities. more>>
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Barnie's
Minor Annoyances
Barnie lives in Calais but works
in London. Everyday, he takes the Eurostar train under the English
Channel to go to work. Although he is married to Lucie, Barnie has
two lovers in London: Margot, a young and fresh advertising executive;
and Mark, a hot 35-year-old auctioneer. Everything is going fine
for Barnie, until Margot, Mark and Lucie separately offer Barnie
the same birthday present: a round-trip ticket to Venice on the
Orient-Express…for the exact same dates. What will Barnie do?
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The
Gates of Glory
Suddenly, Jérôme is
catapulted into a new job. His future father-in-law hires him as
a door-to-door encyclopedia salesman. He gets a crash course in
sales techniques; however, the tools of the trade that his collegues
employ are always unorthodox and at times downright deceitful. The
most vicious of them all is Régis, the determined area coordinator
who see plenty of opportunities with the arrival of his new recruit.
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Return
to Algiers
After 30 years, Pierre Nivel, a
renowned journalist, returns to the country of his childhood, in
order to bring back to France the daughter of his first love. Despite
her wishes she is to be married to a terrorist of the GIA, a militant
Islamic faction. By taking this impromptu trip back to his roots,
Pierre not only rediscovers his former country, but also himself…
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Yes,
but...
Eglantine is a seventeen-year-old
girl in the midst of discovering her sexuality. Her microcosm consists
of her overbearing mother, her absent father, and her boyfriend
who has a tendancy to come on a little too strong. To cope with
the stress she has dealing with her parents, compounded by the difficulties
that puberty brings on, she decides to undergo therapy with an unorthodox
shrink. Her existence will be changed forever.
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Casualties
of Glory
July 21st 1944: Vercors, a region
in the French Alps, is surrounded by German troops. Their plan is
to eliminate the resistance groups that have taken refuge in the
area. Michel Perrat is there visiting his grandmother when her village
is attacked. To save his life, he flees and joins a handful of resistance
fighters and civilians who are themselves trying to escape the Nazis.
The enemy is closing in.
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Uneasy
Riders
Foul-tempered René suffers
from muscular dystrophy. His anger and cruelty victimizes the nurse
and the other residents in the assisted-living home where he resides.
Much of his anger stems from his unrequited natural desires for physical
love, and as he is over 50, he desperately wants to make love to a
woman while there’s still time. Julie, his brand-new nurse, is
shy but determined. She sets out to find René a lover on the
National Highway 7. This undertaking is less simple than it seems,
and creates a snowball effect in the residential home.
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Kirikou
and the Sorceress
The tiny Kirikou is
born into an African village upon which a sorceress called Karaba
has cast a terrible spell. Kirikou is determined to rid the village
of her curse and understand the cause of her wickedness. His adventure-filled
voyage leads Kirikou to the Forbidden Mountain, where the Wise Man
of the Mountain awaits him. more>>
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Dancers
of the Paris Opera
Created by Jean-Baptiste Lully and Pierre
Beauchamps in 1672, the Dance School of the National Opera of Paris
is today under the direction of Brigitte Lefèvre. Nils Tavernier
followed the work of the artists of the Ballet in all its diversity
.The incredibly vast repertoire and rigorous structure gives rise
to this most beautiful—but sometimes cruel—art form.
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