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Le comte de Monte-Cristo

Le comte de Monte-Cristo

 Director: Josée Dayan (1998)
In the port of Marseille, Edmond Dantès is unjustly accused of treason on his wedding day with Mercedes, and is sent to Le Château d’If, an island prison. Responsible are his two best friends (Mondego and Danglars) who betrayed him and the prosecutor (Villefort) who framed Dantes to spare the real traitor [...]

Mademoiselle Chambon

Mademoiselle Chambon

 Director: Stéphane Brizé (2009)
Jean is an upstanding man: a good builder, a good son, a good father, and a good husband. In his ordinary, placid life, divided between family and work, he crosses paths with Mademoiselle Chambon, his son’s teacher.
He is a man of few words; she comes from a different world.
They become overwhelmed by [...]

Le diable au corps

Le diable au corps

 Director: Claude Autant-Lara (1947)
An extraordinarily frank and understanding contemplation of a tragic love affair between a 17-year-old French schoolboy and the wife of a soldier during the first World War is beautifully and tenderly accomplished in the film “Devil in the Flesh”. The underage student Francois Jaubert meets and falls in love with Marthe Grangier, [...]

Thérèse

Thérèse

 Director: Alain Cavalier (1986)
Alain Cavalier’s monumental film depicts the true story of St. Thérèse de Lisieux, a young woman who found personal joy and spiritual liberation within the restrictive traditions of an austere religious order. Wishing to dedicate her life to Christ, Thérèse (Catherine Mouchet) enters a cloistered convent of Carmelite nuns at the age [...]

Train de vie

Train de vie

 Director: Radu Mihaileanu (1998)
It is 1941, the year 5701 of creation, and Shlomo, the village idiot, breathlessly announces the news: The Nazis are coming, and all will be sent to the death camps. As the rabbi and the wise men of the shtetl confer on how to react, Shlomo interjects, “A fake deportation train!” The [...]



 

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