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3) Bon voyage
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Following the premiere of her latest picture Viviane finds herself with a dead man in her apartment. Fre?de?ric is a writer who's been falsely accused of murder, thanks to Viviane. Viviane has fled Paris for Bordeaux with a cabinet minister, and once Fre?de?ric escapes from prison, he is not far behind. Once they reach the city, which is in chaos, they become entangled in a plot involving a rickety physicist, his endlessly resourceful assistant, an...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A lost wallet opens the door to Georges and Marguerite's romantic adventure. After examining the ID of its owner, it is not a simple matter for Georges to turn the wallet he has found into the police. Nor can Marguerite retrieve her wallet without being piqued with curiosity about the person who found it. As George and Marguerite navigate the social protocols of giving and acknowledging thanks, turbulence enters their everyday lives.
Publisher
Wellspring Media [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"One morning, a small French city wakes up to discover thousands of recently dead people walking into town. The reason why is a mystery and there is no time to look into it. Hasty reunions--some passionate, some strained--occur with their survivors. But can they be reintegrated into society when their jobs have been filled and their partners have moved on? As officials try to figure out that to do with them, the dead begin behaving in bizarre ways...
6) Cold water
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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
Publisher
MHZ Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (418 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Season two begins with a burnt corpse found in the trunk of a car, a seemingly isolated case of urban violence. Prosecutor Pierre Clement, Police Captain Laure Berthaud and examining magistrate Judge Roban investigate the murder and soon find themselves up against the criminal machine that lies behind it. It's a furiously-paced season with characters that become increasingly dark, disillusioned and distorted.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of Paul Dedalus, an anthropologist preparing to leave Tajikistan. Reflecting on his life, he has a series of flashbacks starting from his childhood in Roubaix; his mother's attacks of madness, his father's alienating depression. He remembers a student trip to the USSR, where a clandestine mission led him to offer up his own identity for a young Russian, whom he considered a phantom twin for the remainder of his life.
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Edmund is placed in a care facility after taking a bad fall, he discovers that his son has sold his apartment. Determined to reclaim his autonomy, he leaves the facility with Rose, an empathetic nurse still suffering from the loss of her unborn child. However, the unlikely friends must face the consequences when Edmund is reported missing.
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Claire moves from her parents farm to an apartment in the city. She spends most of her time embroidering and keeping a big secret. When fate brings her together with a famous designer, will this help Claire's dreams as well as her big secret?
Publisher
Distributed by WinStar TV & Video
Pub. Date
[1999], c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Anne tells her husband, Pierre, that she is in love with another man. He seems to accept this as a fact of life and refrains from asking the most burning questions. However, as Anne continues to see the "other man", Pierre becomes more violent and it begins to dawn on them that something intangible has happened which cannot be put right.
13) Renoir
Publisher
Flatiron Film Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Description
Jean Renoir, son of the Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste, returns home in the summer of 1915 to Southern France after being wounded in World War I and meets a young woman who inspires both himself and his father.
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sandrine is a successful Parisienne who tires of her job in the rat race and decides to buy Adrien's isolated farm with the caveat that he remain onsite for a period of time. A touching story of growth and change and of the glorious ability of nature to stir the depths of one's heart.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Description
The French Ministry of the Future chooses two "normal", white, middle-class citizens for a national experiment. They will be monitored and displayed on television in a model apartment outfitted with state-of-the-art products and non-stop surveillance--the template for "a new city for the new man." -- container.
16) La chienne
Series
Criterion collection volume 818
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, Lulu, and makes her his mistress. He thinks he finally met love, but Lulu is nothing but a streetwalker, in love with Dede, her pimp. She only accepts Legrand to satisfy Dede's needs of money.
17) Léolo
Publisher
Distributed by Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
12-year-old Leo Lauzon is torn between two worlds-- the squalid Montreal tenement that he inhabits with his severely dysfunctional family, and the imaginative world that he constructs for himself through his writings, where he's Leolo Lozone, son of a Sicilian peasant (conceived in a bizarre act involving a tomato). And his experiences of growing up affect his response to both these worlds
Publisher
Intellimation
Pub. Date
1987.
Physical Desc
6 DVDs : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Part of a course on French language and culture. The student is instructed in French language and culture by seeing people interact in true-to-life situations, while speaking idiomatic, natural French. The course is based on the teaching method of Pierre J. Capretz of total immersion learning.
19) Frank Riva
Publisher
MHz Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 552 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"He's lost his past, he's lost his roots - but not his enemies. Legendary French stage and screen actor Alain Delon stars as Frank Riva, an ex-undercover cop called in from retirement after 25 years of exile to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the murder of his brother in a drug sting operation. He soon finds himself back on the trail of the notorious Loggia crime family, who had put a bounty on his head during the French Connection...
20) Three worlds
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 5
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min., 14 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Al, a young man from a modest background, is ten days away from marrying the daughter of his boss, along with succeeding him as the head of the car dealership where Al has been working for most of his life. One night, while coming back drunk from his bachelor party, Al commits a hit-and-run when he hits a man by accident and is urged to leave the scene of the crime by his two childhood friends who are with him in the car. The next day, gnawed by guilt,...
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