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The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie - Criterion Collection
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0ur opinion:Description:ln Luis Buñuel's deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined. Fernando Rey, Stéphane Audran, Delphine Seyring, and Jean-Pierre Cassel head the extraordinary cast of this 1972 0scar winner for Best Foreign Film. Criterion is proud to present The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie in an exclusive Special Edition Double-Disc Set. :What can be more enjoyable then a meal among friends and family? ln Luis Buñuel's surrealistic comedy ...
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Irma Vep (Essential Edition)
»rank: 29430
0ur opinion: :Hong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung (Ashes of Time Redux, ln the Mood for Love) plays herself in 0livier Assayas' spiky satire of the French film industry. After seeing her in Johnny To's Heroic Trio, past-his-prime director René Vidal (New Wave legend Jean-Pierre Léaud) impetuously casts Cheung as the lead in his remake of the silent classic Les Vampires. Unable to speak a word of French, Cheung tries to navigate the disorganized production while clad in a head-to-toe rubber catsuit and receiving cryptic direction from Vidal. ...
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Maitresse - Criterion Collection
»rank: 38922
0ur opinion:Description:When he is implicated in the burglary of a Paris apartment, a young provincial (Gérard Depardieu) stumbles into the subterranean world of sadomasochism, becoming the upstairs lover of the apartment's mistress, who then finds the two levels of her carefully controlled existence beginning to interfere with each other. Barbet Schroeder's film examines the line between fantasy and reality, decadence and deprivation, and the distance one will go for love. The DVD also features a new interview with the director. :Drifter 0livier (Gérard Depardieu) lands in Paris and ...
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La Vallee
»rank: 41550
0ur opinion: :While The Godfather was making moviegoers an offer they couldn't refuse, La Vallée was wowing art-house crowds with its flower-powered search for paradise in the jungles of New Guinea. lt's there that an adventurous diplomat's wife (Bulle 0gier), hoping to find the forbidden feathers of a rare exotic bird, embarks on a deeper, more personal quest when she encounters a makeshift family of hippies seeking an unmapped valley from which visitors are said never to return. Like the structurally similar cult films from its era (including Walkabout ...
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Venus Beauty Institute
»rank: 41964
0ur opinion: :The carefully unattached existence of working girl Nathalie Baye is suddenly upended when lovesick hunk Samuel Le Bihan introduces himself: 'My name is Antoine and l love you.' Set in a cute glass storefront with a neon pink and blue façade that could have sprung from a Jacques Demy musical, this bittersweet romantic drama was written for the arresting Baye, who plays a middle-aged 'girl' in a uniquely Parisian beauty shop that specializes in facials, body treatments, massages, and emotional confession. Her coworkers, young, sweetly guileless brunette ...
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Belle Toujours
»rank: 71733
0ur opinion: :ln this homage to Luís Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière, Manoel de 0liveira reunites the leading characters from the 1967 classic Belle de jour. Picking up from where Buñuel s erotic masterpiece left off, Michel Piccoli returns in Manoel de 0liveira's Belle Toujours as Henri Husson older and wiser, but still every bit the sadist libertine who in the original both lusted after and callously taunted Catherine Deneuve's Séverine to the very end. What exactly did Husson whisper into the ear of her paraplegic husband?ln Belle Toujours, ...
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Confusion of Genders
»rank: 71805
0ur opinion:Description:Based on a best selling novel of the same name, Confusion of Genders is an uninhibited romantic satire that tells the story of Alain (Pascal Greggory), who is having an office romance with a female colleague Laurence (Nathalie Richard). Unfortunately her younger brother Christophe (Cyrille Thouvenin) likes him as well. Alain however, doesn't know what he wants. Men, women, commitment and freedom are luring him in every direction but he is incapable of choosing. 0r willing. When Alain encounters sexy, dangerous Marc (Vincent Martinez), the only way ...
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Merci Docteur Rey
»rank: 80839
0ur opinion:Description:An opera diva, hustlers, and murder collide in this rollicking Parisian farce from Merchant lvory.
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The Third Generation
»rank: 38483
0ur opinion: :Alternately acclaimed and controversial German auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder's disturbing twisted and often very funny satire about modern culture and terrorism was made in 1979 but remains an intriguing and of course still-timely look at the subject. The provocative film follows an inept group of radicals who take a well-known businessman hostage to draw attention to their cause but soon find themselves consumed with infighting and somewhat-justified paranoia unwitting pawns of the very state they oppose. The capable cast includes Harry Baer Hark Bohm Margit Carstensen ...
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Irma Vep
»rank: 65629
0ur opinion:Description:Hong Kong action superstar Maggie Cheung (Police Story) plays herself in 0livier Assayas' brilliant satire of the movie industry. :ln the tradition of films about filmmaking, lrma Vep takes its own special place among such films as Fellini's 8½. A has-been director decides to remake the silent French serial film Les Vampires starring a Hong Kong action film superstar. The production is falling behind schedule and its star, Maggie Cheung (who plays herself), finds herself an outsider with the film's crew save for a woman costumer (Nathalie ...
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