Sylvie Testud
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Since the earliest days in her childhood, Lara has had a difficult but important task. Both her parents are deaf-mute, and Lara has to translate from sign-language to the spoken word and vice versa when her parents want to communicate with other people. Getting older and more mature, she becomes interested in music and starts to play the clarinet very successfully. Since her parents are deaf, they cannot share Lara's musical career. The day comes...
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A dream job rapidly becomes a nightmare for Amelie, a Japanese-born Belgian woman, who suffers a series of increasingly humiliating demotions after she lands a job as an interpreter at a large Japanese corporation.
3) Two women
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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....
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 141 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Raised in a brothel, then wrested from the only life she knew by her father so they could join the circus, Edith Piaf spent her teen years on the streets. She is finally "rescued" by a crime figure who gives her career a start and, ultimately, by her international success and final illness. Always frail, sickly, malnourished, and wildly temperamental, she was often on drugs or alcohol and was always in search of true love. Middleweight boxer, Marcel...
5) La France
Publisher
Distributed by Lorber HT Digital
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.