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21) El dorado
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
Presents the tale of a dancer rejected by her lover and forced to endure other indignities in order to support her child.
Series
Criterion collection volume 512
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Follows Nana, a young Parisian who aspires to be an actress, but a downward spiral forces her into prostitution.
23) Water lilies
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Anne, Floriane, and Marie learn about love, friendship, and what they want from one another, during one summer in Paris.
24) Amélie
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
Quiet and reserved, Amelie Poulin spends her days as a waitress at a Paris cafe and entertains herself by playing kindhearted practical jokes on her neighbors, finding love in the meantime.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
This film chronicles a year in the life of a one-room schoolhouse in rural France, presided over by Georges Lopez, a devoted teacher responsible for nurturing a dozen children ages 3-11. The film sees the teacher as artist, and presents teaching as a form of love. Because along with reading, writing, and arithmetic, the children learn about what we think of as the basic values of civilization: reason, tolerance, learning, cooperation, and comradeship....
26) The concert
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Twenty-five years after losing his job for hiring Jewish musicians, the former conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra attempts to stage a comeback by gathering his old orchestra together to play at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.
28) The Grocer's son
Series
Film Movement volume 6, film 7
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
"It is summer, and thirty-year-old Antoine is forced to leave the city to return to his family in Provence. His father is sick, so he must assume the lifestyle he thought he had shed: driving the family grocery cart from hamlet to hamlet, delivering supplies to the few remaining inhabitants. Accompanied by Claire, a friend from Paris whom he has a secret crush on, Antoine gradually warms up to his experience in the country and his encounters with...
30) Persepolis
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witnesses first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study....
32) Orpheus: Orpheus
Series
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
A 1950 update of the Orphic myth by Jean Cocteau that depicts a famous poet scorned by the Left Bank youth, and his love for both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking inspiration, the poet follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead through Cocteau's famous mirrored portal. Orpheus represents the legendary Cocteau at the height of his abilities for peerless visual poetry and dreamlike storytelling.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
A shell-shocked Juliette is released from prison after serving 15 years for murdering her young son. As life has moved on, she must relearn certain basics. After being banished from her family, she is now reunited with her younger sister, Lea. Hopefully, Juliette will learn to forgive herself in the process.
35) Caramel
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
A romantic comedy centered on the daily lives of five Lebanese women living in Beirut, all with their own quirks and comedic problems they must deal with.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Unlikeable antiques dealer Fran©ʹois always gets what he wants, but there's one thing he's never had: a friend. Challenged to a bet by his business partner, Fran©ʹois must find someone who will pose as his best pal in just 10 days. Enlisting the assistance of charming taxi driver Bruno, Fran©ʹois goes to outrageous lengths to be a likable guy.
38) Indochine
Pub. Date
[c1999]
Description
A love triangle set in the days just before the communist uprising in Indochina. A plantation owner finds that her adopted daughter has fallen in love with the owner's secret lover.
39) Belle toujours
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Thirty-eight years later, a housewife who moonlighted as a prostitute and a former client meet again, instigating past resentments.
40) Lacombe Lucien
Series
Criterion collection volume 329
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Traces a young peasant's journey from potential Resistance member to Gestapo recruit. At once the story of a nation and one troubled boy's horrific coming of age, the disquieting portrait of lost innocence and guilt
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