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They say Léon Delafosse will be France's next great pianist. But despite his being the youngest student ever accepted into the prestigious Paris Conservatory, there's no way an impoverished musician can make his way in 1890s Paris without an outside patron. Young gossip columnist Marcel Proust takes Léon under his wing, and the boys game their way through an extravagant new world. When the larger-than-life Count Robert de Montesquiou-Fézensac...
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"First there is a battlefield, a pressure-cooker, a time-bomb: the destructive potential that exists in racial bigotry, in color prejudice and in the tensions and sensitivities which such attitudes encourage. Woven into this pattern of violence, there is a theme that is gentle, wistful and poetic: this is Baldwin's apologia for homosexual love."
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Sid, a former member of a popular 1930s German American jazz band which was forbidden by the Nazis to play live, returns to Berlin in 1992 to attend the screening of a documentary about his band mate Hieronymus Falk, who was arrested by the Gestapo in a Paris cafe after the men escaped from Germany and is considered a jazz legend, and finally breaks his silence about what he witnessed the day Hieronymus was taken into custody, while also describing...
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A trip into the '90s Parisian electronic dance movement experienced through the eyes of DJ groups Cheers and Daft Punk, who, together with their friends, plunge into the ephemeral nightlife of sex, drugs, and endless music.
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