David Thion
Series
Criterion collection volume 1218
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
The closer we look, the less we know in Justine Triet's masterful, Oscar-winning Anatomy of a Fall, an eerily riveting courtroom thriller that examines the line where truth becomes fiction and fiction becomes truth. When Sandra Voyter (a transfixing Sandra Hüller), a writer who turns the material of her life into autofiction, is put on trial for the suspicious death by defenestration--or was it suicide?--of her husband, it opens up an inquiry that...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into a friend who although being in a relationship, embarks on an affair.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Français
Description
Fifteen-year-old Camille is a serious girl who has fallen in love with the cheerful Sullivan, an older boy who returns her feelings but wants to be free to explore the world. When he leaves her in order to travel, she is at first devastated, but in the following years she develops into a more fully formed woman with new interests and a new love and the possibility that she'll be less defenseless when Sullivan enters her life again.
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
Description
Meet Maria, a woman dissatisfied with her marriage who, after an intense argument with her husband of twenty years, spends the night in room 212 of the hotel across the street from their home. There, she has a bird's eye view of her apartment, her husband, and her marriage. In this comic romp, she confronts her past lovers and relationships on one magical night, fantasizing about the lives she could've lived and wondering if she's made the right decisions....
5) Dark Diamond
Author
Language
Français
Description
Pier Ulmann blames his extended diamond-dealer family for his father's tragic life – and death. To take revenge, he insinuates himself back into the family enterprise, with an elaborate caper in mind. Caught up in the power dynamics between his uncle Joseph and his cousin Gabi, who have very different ideas about the company's future, he finds himself increasingly attracted to his cousin Louisa.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
The French writer and 2022 Nobel Prize awardee Annie Ernaux, whose novels and memoirs have gained her a devoted following (and whose autobiographical L'Événement was adapted into the critically acclaimed film Happening), opens a treasure trove with this delicate journey into her family's memory. Compiled from gorgeously textured home movie images from 1972 to 1981 when her first books were published, her sons became teenagers, and her husband Philippe...
8) La France
Publisher
Distributed by Lorber HT Digital
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Français
Description
French farm girl Camille is awaiting news of her husband, who is fighting at the front. After she receives an enigmatic letter ending their relationship, she dresses up as a boy and joins a wandering regiment in search of her estranged love. Skirting the edges of battlefields, the platoon haunts the screen like shell-shocked specters, awakening for four uncannily beautiful musical numbers played on homemade string instruments.
9) L'opéra
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
Go behind the scenes during one season at the famed Palais Garnier and Opera Bastille, where drama unfold every day. It turns the spotlight on great passions and tells the story of life at one of the most prestigious performing arts venues in the world. Featuring magnificent performances by Bryn Terfel and Benjamin Millepied, amongst many other top artists, find out what happens before the curtain is raised at these legendary venues.
10) Tip top
Publisher
Distributed by Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
When an Algerian informant for the French police is found murdered in a small town, two female investigators suspect the possibility of police involvement with the murder.
11) The Paris Opera
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Français
Description
Autumn 2015. At the Paris Opera, Stephane Lissner is putting the finishing touches to his first press conference as director. Backstage, artists and crew prepare to raise the curtain on a new season withSchonberg's Moses and Aaron. But the announcement of a strike and arrival of a bull in a supporting rolecomplicate matters. At the same time, a promising young Russian singer begins at the Opera's Academy. In the hallways of Opera Bastille, his destiny...