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Criterion collection volume 512
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Follows Nana, a young Parisian who aspires to be an actress, but a downward spiral forces her into prostitution.
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Based on a true story about revenge, fear and redemption. In 19th century St. Pierre, a convict sentenced to death strives to better himself in the eyes of the police chief's beautiful wife and that of the town that she has him working in. Since there is no guillotine or executioner, one of each has to be sent for from France.
4) Bluebeard
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Employs a double narrative, one revolving around two young sisters who are reading the tale of Bluebeard, and the other telling the story of young Marie-Catherine, child bride to Bluebeard, an aristocratic ogre with a reputation for murdering his wives. The Princess must employ all her cunning to outwit her husband and escape a potentially unpleasant fate.
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Franck spends his summer vacation searching for companionship and sexual encounters at a popular cruising spot on the shores of a picturesque lake in rural France. One day, he meets Michel, an attractive yet darkly mysterious man and falls blindly in love. When a death occurs, Franck and Michel become the primary suspects but they choose to ignore the dangers and instead continue to engage in their passionate and potentially lethal relationship.
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Criterion collection volume 612
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What seems at first to be a straightforward tale of two people getting to know each other over the course of an afternoon gradually reveals itself as something richer, stranger, and trickier: a mind-bending reflection on authenticity, in art as well as in relationships. Both cerebrally and emotionally engaging, reminds us that love itself is an enigma.
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Criterion collection volume 381
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Saïd is an Arab, Hubert is black, and Vinz is a Jew, all of them young, unemployed and living in a dreary, troubled Paris suburb, largely inhabited by poor immigrant families. Each of them needs to vent the anger they feel about the police brutality that landed another friend in the hospital. The film focuses on one day in the lives of these three hoodlum friends and the result is a brutal, harrowing study of the cyclical nature of violence.
9) Summer hours
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Criterion collection volume 513
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The divergent paths of three adult siblings collide when their mother, heiress to an exceptional 19th century art collection, dies suddenly.
11) Made in U.S.A
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Criterion collection volume 481
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Paula, a leftist writer, goes from Paris to the French town of Atlantic-Cit�e when she learns of the death of a former colleague and lover, Richard P.
12) Two women
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The beautiful Natalya is married to Arkadi, a rich but older landowner. Bored with her life, she catches the eye of the handsome Mikhail. Might this flirtation develop into something more? Not once the young, attractive Aleksei arrives as tutor to Natalya's son. Natalya falls for Aleksei, but so does her teenage step-daughter Vera. Suddenly Natalia's seemingly idyllic life has turned into a complex web of unrequited love, guilt, lust and jealousy....
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Film Movement volume 13, film 3
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Already facing a rift in their marriage, Pomme and Pierre find things getting worse when their son leaves for college. During one of the couple's regular hikes, Pomme decides to take a break from her discontent and stays behind to live in the woods.
14) The Young Girls of Rochefort: = Les demoiselles de Rochefort (The Essential Jacques Demy Vol. 4)
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A musical about missed connections and second chances. Twins Delphine and Solange, a dance instructor and a music teacher, long for big-city life; when a fair comes through their quiet port town, so does the possibility of escape.
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Criterion collection volume 944
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The acclaimed early film by Olivier Assayas about teenage lovers in the outskirts of Paris in the early '70s, whose rebellions against family and society threaten to tear them apart. With memorable party sequences and a rock soundtrack evoking the period, it is a heartbreaking tale of the emotional tumult of being young.
16) Détective
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In a luxury Paris hotel, two detectives are working on the vexing case of an assassinated prince. In a nearby room, boxing trainer Jim Fox Warner is getting his young protege ready for a fight. But Jim owes big money to the mob, as well as to the Chenals, a bickering husband, and wife. In Godard's fractured, poetic style, the tension ratchets up between these groups until they reach a bloody breaking point.
18) Le bonheur
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Criterion collection volume 420
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Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker. One of Agnès Varda's most provocative films, Le bonheur examines, with a deceptively cheery palette and the spirited strains of Mozart, the ideas of fidelity and happiness in a modern, self-centered world.
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Criterion collection volume 744
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This looks at the sexual and professional lives of three people: a television producer, his ex-girlfriend, and a prostitute, to create a meditative story about work, relationships, and the notion of freedom.
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Part crime thriller, part romantic comedy, Louis Garrel's The Innocent shows the dangerous and outlandish lengths two men go to for the women they love. Garrel stars as Abel, an aquarium educator whose mother, Sylvie, marries one of her drama pupils in the local penitentiary, Michel. Once on parole, Michel attempts to start a legitimate life but soon reverts to his old ways, eventually roping Abel into one of his schemes. Complicating matters is Clemence,...
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