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3 Films by Louis Malle
$69.95 | 363 minutes
Few directors have portrayed the agonies and epiphanies of growing up as poetically – and scandalously – as Louis Malle. Laced with autobiographical details, Murmur of the Heart; Lacombe, Lucien; and Au revoir les enfants tell stories of youth, set against the tumult of World War II and postwar France. Controversial, tragic…
36 Fillette
$12.95 | 88 minutes
While on a camping vacation with her family, 14-year-old Lili sets out to lose her virginity. She pursues for her first lover Maurice, a 40-year-old computer salesman, but "at the moment of truth," she's assailed by lingering doubts. Alternately aggressive and resistant, Lili confuses herself and frustrates Maurice as she tries to make up her mind…
5 x 2
$29.95 | 90 minutes
Focusing on the failed relationship of a thirtysomething couple, French director Francois Ozon (SWIMMING POOL, UNDER THE SAND) organizes this film into five chapters they shared together. In backwards chronology, the first chapter of Marion (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) and Gilles's (Stephane Freiss) story has them signing divorce papers…
A Louvre Treasure: Awakening Apollo
$26.95 | 85 minutes
This documentary beautifully captures the amazing process of restoring the Louvre's gorgeous Apollo Gallery to its original glory, undoing years of water damage and accumulated grime. In 2002, 60 highly trained experts used their unusual skills and an impressive amount of sheer effort to carefully rehabilitate one of the world-famous…
A Man and a Woman
$15.95 | 103 minutes
While visiting their children at boarding school, handsome race car driver Jean-Louis meets movie script-girl Anne, a slightly sullen but beautiful widow. A widower himself, Jean-Louis discovers he and Anne have quite a bit in common. Remembering for the first time what it's like to feel overwhelmed by passion, they begin a rapturous…
A Man Escaped
$23.95 | 100 minutes
This compelling, thrilling tale of courage and faith recounts a Resistance fighter's daring escape from a Nazi prison, just hours before he was to be executed. Based on a true story, the film meticulously details Lieutenant Fontaine's preparations for escape. With stealth and precision, he puts into action a plan as suspenseful as anything…
A Nos Amours
$34.95 | 102 minutes
With his raw style of filmmaking, Maurice Pialat has been called the John Cassavetes of French cinema, and the scorching À nos amours is one of his greatest achievements. In a revelatory film debut, the dynamic, fresh-faced Sandrine Bonnaire plays Suzanne, a fifteen-year-old Parisian who embarks on a sexual rampage in an effort to separate…
A Nous La Liberte
$26.95 | 83 minutes
Two prisoners attempt an escape, but only one makes it. He becomes a successful business man and when his friend finally gets out of jail he hires his old escape partner. Many madcap adventures happen everywhere they go. Academy Award Nominations: Best Interior Decoration…
A Single Girl
$21.95 | 90 minutes
The atmospheric, deliberately paced non-adventures of a wistful, angelic, and slightly pregnant Parisian hotel clerk who struggles into single motherhood after separating from her surly, jobless boyfriend…
A Tout De Suite
$25.95 | 95 minutes
Parisian art student Lili (Isild Le Besco) is charmed by a Moroccan criminal, Bada (Ouassini Embarek), who robs a bank in a messy undertaking that leaves two people dead, all while thinking he will come out a hero. Smitten nonetheless, Lili sacrifices everything for him, following him as he goes on the run. What results is an errant lovers'…
