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61) Contempt
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When he is asked to rewrite the screenplay of the Odyssey, which is being filmed by Fritz Lang in Rome, he sets in motion his own odyssey. En route to Rome with his wife Camille, who he adores, his wife tells him that she has nothing but CONTEMPT for him.
62) Queen To Play
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**Oscar-winner** Kevin Kline and Sandrine Bonnaire square off in this stylish and sophisticated dramedy of newfound passions and mid-life triumphs, set on the postcard-perfect isle of Corsica. Lovely, repressed and quietly intelligent, French chambermaid Hélène (Bonnaire) comes upon a couple engaging in an intense chess match, and discovers she has a knack for the game. This obsession—much to the chagrin of her husband and teenaged daughter—leads...
63) Keep An Eye Out
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The latest deranged delight by French absurdist Quentin Dupieux, KEEP AN EYE OUT is a breakneck-paced cop comedy that packs more laughs into its 73 breezy minutes than some filmmakers manage in their entire careers. Belgian funnyman Benoît Poelvoorde (Man Bites Dog) is Commissaire Buran, a good, bad cop interrogating Fugain, (Grégoire Ludig), an average Joe who discovered a dead body outside his apartment building. As the film begins, Fugain must,...
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Indochina, 1945. Robert Tassen, a young French soldier is the only survivor of a massacre where his brother perished before his eyes. Blinded by vengeance, Robert engages in a solitary and secret quest to find the assassins. But his meeting with Maï, a young Indochinese woman, will change his beliefs. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**.
65) Le Chef
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Self-taught aspiring chef Jacky (Michaël Youn) has the talent, but not the luck. Star chef Alexandre Lagarde (Jean Reno) is in danger of losing his reputation, along with his beloved restaurant. Fate brings the two together and helps them along a journey through the intoxicating world of French haute-cuisine. Premiered at the **Berlin International Film Festival.** *"An amusing soufflé of a comedy that pokes fun at foodies while honoring the art...
66) Far from Men
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Viggo Mortensen stars as a reclusive teacher who must help a wanted man escape into the mountains during the Algerian War.
67) Sol
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Sol, a famous Argentine Tango performer, has lived in Buenos Aires for many years. Behind her excessive temper and her glowing smile, the Diva hides an injury from which she never really recovered: the loss of her only son, Raphaël.
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In the late 19th century, keen to compete with other European imperial powers on the continent, King Leopold II of Belgium proclaimed, “I do not want to miss a good chance of getting us a slice of this magnificent African cake.” The subsequent occupation of the Congo would come to attract a contingent of servants, merchants and miscellaneous bourgeois driven by everything from insatiable greed to existential fear. From the intimate stories of...
70) Genèse
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Three teenagers are shaken up by love in the turmoil of their youth. When others are conforming, they assert their right to love and be free.
71) Cosmos
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The late Andrzej Zulawski's final film, a literary adaptation suffused with his trademark freneticism, transforms Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz's novel of the same name into an ominous and manic exploration of desire. Witold who has just failed the bar, and his companion Fuchs, who has recently quit his fashion job, are staying at a guesthouse run by the intermittently paralytic Madame Woytis. Upon discovering a sparrow hanged in the woods near...
72) En guerre
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Despite heavy financial sacrifices on the part of their employees and record profits that year, the management of Perrin Industries decides to shut down a factory. The 1100 employees, led by their spokesman Laurent Amédéo, decide to fight this brutal decision, ready to do everything to save their jobs.
73) Catch the Wind
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Edith, a 45-year-old textile factory worker, sees her life turned upside down by the company’s downsizing measures. Estranged from her son and without any other ties, rather than go into unemployment, she decides to leave her life behind and follow her work at the factory which has been relocated in Morocco. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**.
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Winner of the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival**, UNDER THE SUN OF SATAN tells the story of Donissan, a mediocre seminarist haunted by Evil and the failure of his divine mission. He mortifies his body and is unable to establish any rapport with his parishioners, until the day the abbot meets young Mouchette who has just committed a mortal sin. Based on Georges Bernanos's novel of the same name and starring Academy Award-nominated actor Gérard...
75) My Rembrandt
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Rembrandt, the grandmaster of intimacy, rocks the art world; 350 years after his death many people, even entire nations are obsessed with his paintings. Aristocrats cherish, experts rule, art dealers investigate, collectors hunt, and museums battle. The epic documentary MY REMBRANDT dives deep into the art world of Old Masters exploring the motives of its elite.
77) Ismael's Ghosts
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Twenty-one years ago, she ran away. And twenty-one years later, Carlotta (Marion Cotillard) is back from the void. But Ismael (Mathieu Amalric) has been busy rebuilding his life with Sylvia (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and working on his next feature film.
78) Bluebeard
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Set at the beginning of this century, this true story is about Landru, a small clerk who puts matrimonial ads in the paper for moneyed, single women without families. He meets them, seduces them, asks them to come to his home in the town of Gambais, there he kills them after they have signed over all their wealth to him. Suspicious neighbors alert the police and Landru is finally arrested and guillotined.
79) Serie Noire
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Sacked from his job as a salesman and dumped by his wife for his involvement with an underage sex worker, Franck Poupart signs up for a robbery scheme, only to discover how much worse his luck can get. Newly restored. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**. Nominated for 5 **César Awards**.
80) Delicacy
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Audrey Tautou stars as Nathalie, a happy and successful Parisian business executive who finds herself suddenly widowed. To cope with her loss, she buries herself and her emotions in her work to the dismay of her friends, family and co-workers. One day, inexplicably, her zest for life and love is rekindled by a most unlikely source, her seemingly unexceptional, gauche, and average looking office subordinate, Markus. As their relationship goes from...
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