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A Christmas Tale |
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| Dark French comedy that’s a tale of a highly dysfunctional French upper middle class family coming together over the festive season. The family matriarch, who greets the news of her life-threatening illness with calm equanimity, her wise, tender husband and the black sheep son banished from the fami... |
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A Good Marriage |
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| Headstrong Sabine (Beatrice Romand), who is working on her thesis in Art History, has tired of affairs with married men, such as Simon (Feodor Atkine). Playing cupid, her best friend Clarisse (Arielle Dombasle) introduces her lawyer cousin Edmond (Andre Dusollier) to Sabine. Encouraged by Clarisse,... |
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Avril |
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| A young woman brought up in a secluded convent ventures out into the world in this delicately constructed French coming-of-age tale. At 20, Avril has never left the hidden away nunnery in rural France she came to as an abandoned baby. Her keepers, the nuns, have raised her to live sparely and quietl... |
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Baise-Moi |
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| Based on the novel by Virginie Despentes of the same title. Manu and Nadine lose their last tenuous relationship with main-stream society when Manu gets raped and Nadine sees her only friend being shot. After a chance encounter, they embark on an explosive journey of sex and murder. Perhaps as a rev... |
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Barocco |
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| Early performances from Gerard Depardieu and Isabelle Adjani in Andre Techine's labyrinth thriller set in the seedy red light district of Amsterdam and combining moody film noir with aspects of German expressionism. Samson is a petty thug who has potentially incriminating evidence against an elector... |
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Before I Forget |
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| Pierre is a one-time gigolo reflecting on a life of wild parties, multiple boyfriends and hedonistic impulses in present day Paris. His attempts to complete a book are constantly derailed by numerous visits from hustlers and a heavy writer's block. Embarking on a series of visits to see acquaintance... |
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Beyond Hatred |
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| François Chenu was killed by three young men in a pointless attack motivated by hate. This considered and respectful film documents some of the aftermath of his death - the steps that French society takes to achieve justice via the courts and the incredible efforts his family make to feel a per... |
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Bluebeard |
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| In the 1950s, Bluebeard was the favourite tale of good little girls, one of whom is Catherine, who loves to frighten her older sister Marie-Anne by reading this fairy tale to her until she starts to cry. Catherine also puts herself in the fairy tale by becoming Princess Marie-Catherine, Bluebeard's... |
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Born In 68 |
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| It is 1968 and the youth of France are in revolt. Catherine, Yves and Hervé are students and they love each other but the infamous Paris student uprising in May turns their lives upside down. Filled with a sense of communal utopia, they move to an abandoned farm in the countryside. However, the... |
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Cockles & Muscles |
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| In Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau's breezy, Côte D'azur-set sex comedy, a holidaying family - husband and wife Marc and Béatrix, their teenage son Charly and his friend Martin - experiences a string of sexual revelations. It's all dished out with dollops of saucy humour and moral t... |
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