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Characters lip-synch to fragments of musical recordings from Josephine Baker, Maurice Chevalier, Johnny Halliday and contemporary pop songs which allow them to express their innermost thoughts and feelings. Set against the Paris skyline, this is a captivating and playful round-robin
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This story tells of a friendship between two men—a gifted matador seeking to escape the misery of poverty and a cultivated doctor and musician. Spectacular landscapes of Southern France; far-reaching examination of masculine roles. (Jeanne LeBrune) (VHS, 1987)
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An engeneering example of the socially engaged African cinema which is playing an important role in the democratic renewal sweeping the continent today. It offers non-African viewers the most intimate portrait on film of the complex social dynamic underlying the
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Cyril Collard plays Jean, an HIV positive hedonist who refuses to slow down and let the virus dictate his lifestyle. Winner of four Cesar Awards, including Best Picture. (126 min., VHS, 1993)
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An accomplished fashion executive bored with her life meets a much younger bisexual hustler/bartender. The pair enjoys a powerful chemistry despite their differences in age and background. Starring Isabelle Huppert. Cannes Film Festival. Rated R. (Benoit Jacquot) 102 min. (VHS,
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A highly suspenseful drama revolving about Etienne de Bourbon, 13th-century Dominican friar, who was sent by the Pope to seek out heretics, arrives in a small village where he discovers Elda, the strangely beautiful and mysterious forest woman. (Suzanne Schiffman)
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A suspense story with a violent ending including sexual mutilation of murdered victims. Preceded by a 15 minute short film, "A Summer Dress", a light hearted curtain-raiser celebrating the positive effect of the discovery of sexual variety. (Not recommended by
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Once a feeble slave to his mother's madness, history will remember Albert's captivating rise to heroism as a leader of the French Resistance. As brilliantly as de Gaulle eludes his nation's collaboration with the Nazis, so will Albert shed his
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A suspense thriller. A medical student finds himself drawn into a world of international intrigue. (139 min., VHS, color, 1992)
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Over the course of several years, a couple has slowly begun to grow apart and their marriage is disintegrating. Stars Isabelle Hupert and Daniel Auteuil. (Christian Vincent) (89 min., VHS, color, 1998)
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Stars Larome Vamasse as a 13-year-old Hanna in 1963. Sees movie "My Life to Live" and is deeply moved by the character Nana. She learns the lesson that she is free to live her life as she wants, but with
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A funny French satire about a modern couple's efforts to keep pace with society's changing sexual mores. (Claude Berri) (VHS, English dubbed)
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Inventive, innovative and imitated movie is among the most purely entertaining of all screen masterpieces. Flips back and forth from comic to tragic. (Truffaut) (VHS, B&W, 1960)
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During German occupation Nazi officer stays at home of Fench patriot who vows never to speak to the invader. (Jean-Pierre Melville) (VHS, 1947)
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The full range of Simone de Beauvoir's fascinating life is captured in this insightful documentary portrait. (VHS, color, 1982)
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A day in the life of a young Parisian woman, Valerie, who reveals to her boyfriend that she's four weeks pregnant. (Benoit Jacquat) (VHS, 1996)
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About ten boys and girls whose adventures illustrate the different stages of passage from early childhood to adolescence. (François Truffaut) (VHS, 1964)
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Treatment of the disintegration of a marriage and tragic triangle. (Truffaut) (VHS, 1964)
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A shocker with a mystical edge. Based on a true story, two young brothers are deeply at odds with the world and perpetually in trouble with the authorities as they terrorize and vandalize their hometown. Drama. (Agnes Merlet) (85 min.,
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Story of Victor Hugo's daughter obsessed love. (François Truffaut) (121 min., VHS, color, 1975)
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(Une Affaire du Femmes) The true story of the last woman to be guillotined in France because of WWII. (Claude Chabrol) (VHS, 1988)
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This thriller takes place in the subterranean corners of the Paris subway as Fred, a casual thief and cool rebel is on the run. (Luc Bresson) (VHS, dubbed)
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Set in Martinique, it is the story of plantation workers and of a grandmother and her grandson and their desire to fight against the odds for his future. (Euzhan Palcy) (VHS, 1955)
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Poetic study of an aging impressionist painter emotionally withdrawn from his family and disappointed by their accomplishments, who makes one final attempt at reconciliation. (Bertrand Tavernier) (VHS, 1984)
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The touching relationship between a pilot suffering from amnesia and the orphan girl he befriends. (Serge Bourguignon) (VHS, B&W, 1961)
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Mysterious relationships, suspenseful double-crosses, vicious gangsters and deft humor fill this wittily and elegantly woven tale of intrigue. Stars Isabelle Huppert, Michel Serrault. (Claude Chabrol) (105 min., VHS, 1997)
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Set in a mountain village, the emotionally complex story follows the spiritual growth and decline of a well-meaning pastor and the blind orphan he takes into his home. (Jean Delannoy) (VHS, B&W, 1946)
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